| has gloss | eng: Classon Avenue (pronounced KLAW-sun by local residents) is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. It has a crossover. This station has a provision for a middle track, between the current two tracks. This trackway was built for the IND Second System. The middle trackway was to relay or lay-up trains if the Bedford–Nostrand Avenue station was the terminal for off-peak trains. Leaving this station, the extra trackway space abruptly ends. There is a curvature at the south end of the station where the switches would have been located for trains to continue on to tracks E1 or E2 from the center section. If you look at the south end of the southbound platform, there is room there that looks like it was supposed to be a station tower. The station once had a full length mezzanine. Only the northern half of the former full-length mezzanine exists. The south side, mostly likely leading to Grand Avenue, is now closed. The boarded-up staircases and a fence that closes up a large area of darkness, are the evidence of the former southern half of the full-length mezzanine. |