Lawrence Street–MetroTech (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

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Lawrence Street–MetroTech
NYC Subway M service NYC Subway N service NYC Subway R service

New York City Subway station
Station information
Line BMT Fourth Avenue Line
Services M rush hours until 7:30 p.m. (rush hours until 7:30 p.m.)
N late nights (late nights)
R all except late nights (all except late nights)
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Other
Borough Brooklyn
Opened March 11, 1920
Next north Court Street: M rush hours until 7:30 p.m. N late nights R all except late nights
Next south DeKalb Avenue: M rush hours until 7:30 p.m. N late nights R all except late nights

Lawrence Street–MetroTech is a station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. The station is under Willoughby Street in Downtown Brooklyn, near the Transit Authority Building. It is an island platform on two tracks.

The station has a full time entrance at Lawrence Street with three street stairs and two platform stairs. The platform also contains an up-only escalator that bypasses the fare control area with high exit-only gates on the top leading to the southeast entrance. The part-time side at Bridge Street is HEET access at all times, but once contained a booth. The original directional sign exits are preserved, while the platform extends deep to the north end.

The station is directly below the Jay Street–Borough Hall IND station. Construction of a free transfer between the two stations is planned (and as of August 2007 has started) as part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2005–2009 Capital Program.

The platform for the "money train," where the BMT and IRT divisions previously dropped off their collections, is clearly visible in the tunnel as viewed from the western end of the platform; the IND money platform is upstairs near the Jay Street station. These platforms have not been used since the retirement of the fare collection trains in January 2006.[1]

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  1. ^ Vandam, Jeff. "Cash and Carry", New York Times, 2006-12-31. Retrieved on 2007-12-27. "That may be why few New Yorkers probably noticed the retirement last January of this underground cash cache, done in by the arrival of the MetroCard and machines that allowed people to buy them by credit card." 

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