Third Avenue is a typical 14th Street-Canarsie Line local stop. It has two side platforms each with only one exit towards their Western ends and just 3 turnstiles to leave the station. The 8th Avenue-bound platform has had its token booth removed, is unstaffed and its streetstair is out to the NE corner of 3 Avenue and 14 Street and a second streetstair father east down 14 Street. The Brooklyn-bound platform has the token booth and a streetstair to the NW corner and also a second streetstair farther east down 14 Street. The platforms extend east ending nearly at 2nd Avenue, and if the 3rd Phase of the Second Avenue subway is ever built (projected to extend from 72 Street to Houston Street), this will be a transfer point between the L train and Second Avenue Subway.
The side platforms are narrow enough that there are no support beams on them; the only ones are between the line's two tracks. It has gray name tablets with a complex squares trimline and little 3s in the trim.
Photo 1-10: April 21, 2007; 11-14: December 22, 2008; 15-17: November 3, 2012;
Looking down the Brooklyn-bound platform at Third Avenue as a R143 L train has closed its doors.
A view down an empty (for a moment) Brooklyn-bound platform at Third Avenue. A No Exit-Exit Other End sign is in view
The detailed mosaic work in the station's trim at Third Avenue.
A mosaic 3 in the trim at Third Avenue.
A wider shot of the station wall at Third Avenue a mosaic 3 and a mosaic To Street are visible.
Looking down the simple old platform floor at Third Avenue.
Another view down the platform floor at Third Avenue.
An old black text on white sign for Beth Israel Medical Center at 3rd Avenue (1st Avenue stop would be much closer).
Looking down the Brooklyn-bound platform at 3rd Avenue as it begins getting crowded with people waiting for the next train.
A two street mosaic beneath a mosaic 3 in the trim at Third Avenue.
A name tablet at Third Avenue.
The fare control area with its 3 turnstiles on the Brooklyn-bound platform at 3rd Ave.
A Third Ave name tablet at the very end of the Brooklyn-bound platform.
Tape is off the Brooklyn-bound entrance at Third Avenue post Superstorm Sandy
The fare control area with no trains but the token booth staffed for MetroCard Sales
The 8th Avenue-bound streetstair is taped off and closed
Last Updated: 25 December, 2008
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