Ten cars undergo 10,000 mile SMS inspections per day, since their entire fleet has been unitized into five-car sets.

It is located south of Mets–Willets Point, at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park near Citi Field, the National Tennis Center, and the site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs.

With more track mileage to cover and tighter spacing between trains as part of CBTC implementation on the Flushing Line, the MTA announced plans to expand the yard with a second loop and six layup tracks, which would be located on the former right of way of the Long Island Rail Road's Whitestone Branch.

Rail access to the yard is by a pair of tracks that branch off of the elevated IRT Jerome Avenue Line just north of Bedford Park Boulevard–Lehman College station.

The yard is surrounded by a wall and covered by a parking deck used by residents of the Tracey Towers housing complex.

[5][18] The original IRT subway cars were lowered from the street via inclines into the yard, where they continued into the West Side Main Line.

[21][22] Around that time, a public school building (currently housing Frederick Douglass Academy) and the Esplanade Gardens apartment complex were constructed on pilotis above the formerly open-air yard.

[23][6] Livonia, along with 240th Street Yard, are on entirely elevated structures and are in need of rehabilitation due to not meeting the configuration standards for "current industry practices".

It is connected to the IRT Pelham Line in both directions between Westchester Square–East Tremont Avenue and Middletown Road stations.

With the additional storage space, it would no longer be required to lay up trains on the middle track of the line between East 177th Street and Pelham Bay Park, and it would allow for full day express service.

Opened on October 26, 1917,[35] it is the primary layup yard for the R160 and R143 on the L train and hosts the only car wash for the BMT Eastern Division.

It was built about 1929 and is a small masonry building with prominent clay tile roof with deep overhanging eaves.

It was built between 1925 and 1927 and is a simple two-story, box-shaped brick-clad building lit by multiple banks of large, multi-paned windows and a massive sawtooth skylight.

[47] Opened with an extension of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line in 1906,[47] it is normally used for storing the R160As that run on the M. General maintenance of the cars is performed at East New York Yard.

The yard connects to the Queens Boulevard Line at a three-way flying junction just geographically north of the Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike station.

[48][49][50] The property on which the yard sits used to belong to the Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity, and it was transferred to the New York City Board of Transportation on April 2, 1930.

These wells were connected to the water mains serving Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, and part of Flushing.

[51] Originally, the yard was intended to be built in the vicinity of South Elmhurst and Rego Park at Grand Street and Queens Boulevard.

It holds the Pitkin Shops, which maintain the R46s used on the A, C, and Rockaway Park Shuttle, the R179s used on the A and Rockaway Park Shuttle, and the R211s used on the A and C. Track connections from the yard connect both railroad north to Euclid Avenue and railroad south past Grant Avenue on the IND Fulton Street Line.

[6][57][66] The site for Pitkin Yard was approved by the Board of Estimate on February 8, 1940 in order to serve the extension of the Fulton Street Line.

In addition to the building of the subway yard on that site, Lehman College, three high schools, a park, and several public housing developments were also built there.

The tracks were spaced apart to permit the placing of stable foundations and columns to support buildings that can could be erected atop the proposed roof of the yard.

In the 1960s, the City University of New York planned to build a new campus for Bronx Community College by constructing a deck over the yard.

The possibility of building atop the yard was brought back by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Junior in 2015.

In a report, the yard was found to have great potential for development, allowing for the building of mixed-income housing, retail space, and an expansion of Lehman College.

Concourse Yard is spanned across its middle by Bedford Park Boulevard West, and at its northern end by a 205th Street viaduct.

[42] The former consists of two, three-story brick buildings with only the top story visible from the street that are built next to one another to form a gateway to the Concourse Yard.

[89][90] Its primary function is to store diesel and electrically powered maintenance-of-way and other non-revenue service rolling stock.

It is also used to transfer trash from garbage collector trains to trucks via platforms inside the yard just south of 37th Street.

[6] The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to enlarge, and modernize this yard to accommodate, inspect and maintain additional revenue service trains here, due to chronic overcrowding at their other existing main facilities,[64][89] as many trains are stored on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line's mainline express tracks during off-peak periods.