Renovations also added new old-fashioned light fixtures with modern sodium-vapor lamps in them, which are suspended on long rods from the high, vaulted ceilings.

The station's other fare control area has two staircases going down to each platform, a crossover, part-time turnstile bank and customer assistance booth, high entry/exit turnstiles that provide full-time access to and from the station, and two staircases going up to either side of Fulton Street between Stuyvesant and Schenectady Avenues.

[8][6] The artwork at the Utica Avenue station was made in 1996 by Jimmy James Green and is called Children's Cathedral.

[9][10] The work consists of ten mosaic panels that are based on hundreds of drawings from neighborhood children.

[12] The unfinished upper level station was to be built for a subway line down Utica Avenue as part of the IND Second System.

Climbing the steps to the intermediate level, there are locked doors that serve as access to the unfinished platforms.

Looking into the window reveals a cinder-block wall that were erected to prevent glimpses into the closed portion of the intermediate level mezzanine.

After the 1990s renovation of the Utica Avenue station, the mezzanine was shortened using cinder-block walls and the current tiling in the intermediate level, hiding the chain-link fence and the door behind it.