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Kingston Avenue

Kingston Avenue is located on the quite unusual stacked Eastern Parkway Subway. In the station the express tracks stacked above one another on the northside of the line, and the local tracks on the south side. This means the station's two side platforms are directly on top of one another on different levels, on the southern side of the tracks. Here New Lots Avenue-bound trains are on the upper level, with Manhattan-bound trains on the lower level.

Fare control is in the middle of the station directly along the upper level platform and a bit set back behind the two staircases that lead down to the lower level Manhattan-bound platform. For fare control there is a single bank of turnstiles in front of the token booth with two street stairs out to either side of Kingston Avenue in the middle of the South Mall, where the bike path is (between the main road and service road) of Eastern Parkway.

The platforms themselves have a design of being quite wide towards there middles near the station's exit (here is where there's a line of yellow I-beam columns), before getting quite narrow towards either end. At the both extreme ends of both platforms are sections with 1950s style block tiling. Here Kingston Avenue is written in white on a black background. The rest of the stations have their original dual-contracts era name tablets and trimlines. The name tablets say Kingson Avenue on a blue with specs of red and green background, with a inner golden-yellow boarder line, and an outer lime green boarder. The trim-line is a golden-yellow for its inner section with a narrow boarder of blue, and a wider outside boarder of the same lime green. There are Ks in the trimline at various intervals for the station's Kingson Avenue name.
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Looking down the New Lots-bound platform at Kingston Avenue, from its eastern (railway southern) end, as a R62 3 train leaves the station, notice how it gets a bit wider as you continue towards the center of the platform.

A close up of Kingston Ave written in White against a black backdrop in the 1950s extension of the station.

Looking down the Manhattan-bound platform at Kingston Avenue as columns on it begin and it gets wider.

A close up of an K in the Kingston Avenue Station's upper trim line.

A Kingston Ave name tablet.

A close-up of a column sign at Kingston Avenue.

Looking down the Manhattan-bound platform the simple exit signs for the station's only exit are coming into view.

In the small area in front of Kingston Avenue's only exit, the two staircases down to the Lower Level Manhattan-bound platform are visible along with the turnstiles that lead out to the station's exit and street.

A street stair to Kingston Avenue, in the middle of the Bike Path in one of Eastern Parkway's medians.

Another view of a street stair at Kingston Avenue, the Jewish Children's Museum is the unusual building behind this street staircase.

Another view of a street stair to Kingston Avenue in a median mall of Eastern Parkway.

Approaching the token booth and turnstiles in the long and narrow station entrance area to Kingston Avenue.

On the Lower Level Manhattan-bound platform, a staircase up to the exit and New Lots-bound platform at Kingston Avenue.

Another view down the Manhattan-bound platform at Kingston Avenue, by one of the two staircases up to the New Lots-bound platform and exit, this staircase has an old-fashioned looking banister.

Looking back at a staircase up to the upper level and exit at Kingston Avenue, the platform gets briefly a bit wider for it.

Looking down the Manhattan-bound platform towards the extreme eastern back end, where the 1960s tiling is at Kingston Avenue.

Last Updated: March 5, 2023

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