Lorimer Street (BMT Jamaica Line)

Lorimer Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station

Northbound platform
Station statistics
Address Lorimer Street & Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Borough Brooklyn
Locale Williamsburg
Division B (BMT)
Line BMT Jamaica Line
Services       J  (all times except weekday peak direction rush hours)
      M  (weekdays at all hours except late nights)
Connection
Structure Elevated
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 3
Other information
Opened June 25, 1888; 123 years ago (June 25, 1888)
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 1,404,557[1]  1.8%
Rank 299 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Flushing Avenue: J  M 
Next south Hewes Street: J  M 

Lorimer Street is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Lorimer Street and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction and the M on weekdays. The Z train bypasses this station when it operates.

This station opened on June 25, 1888 as part of a westward extension of the Broadway Elevated to Driggs Avenue with the final terminus of Broadway Ferry opening a few weeks later. Upon the opening of the Williamsburg Bridge tracks, trains were rerouted after Marcy Avenue to Delancey Street (later re-named Essex Street), establishing the current J/Z service pattern.

There are two side platforms and three tracks. The center track is used by peak direction J/Z express service on weekdays. Both platforms have beige windscreens and red canopies with green frames and support columns. Some sections of the windscreen feature mesh to allow a view of the streets below. The station name plates are in the standard black with white lettering.

This station has two entrances/exits. The full-time side is an elevated station house beneath the tracks on the northwest end. Inside fare control, it has one staircase to each platform at their extreme ends and a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions. Outside fare control, there is a turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircase to the street. One goes down to the northwest corner of Broadway and Lorimer Street while the other goes down to the southeast peninsula formed by Throop Avenue, Lorimer Street, and Broadway. The northbound platform has an additional staircase going up to a work level above the mezzanine.

The station's other entrance/exit is unstaffed and has a sealed elevated station house beneath the tracks. A single staircase from each platform goes down to the station house landing, where a single high entry/exit turnstile provides entrance/exit from the system. Another staircase then goes down to either western corner of Wallabout Street and Broadway.

The 2002 artwork here is called Roundlet Series by Annette Davidek.[2] It features 16 stained glass panels on the platform windscreens that are 36 inches tall and 36 inches wide. They all have a floral and vine theme.

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