Jay Street – MetroTech (New York City Subway)

Jay Street – MetroTech

New York City Subway rapid transit station complex

Jay Street entrance

Station statistics

Address

Jay Street, Lawrence Street & Willoughby Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Borough

Brooklyn

Locale

Downtown Brooklyn

Coordinates

40°41′37.25″N 73°59′14.04″W / 40.6936806°N 73.9872333°W

Division

B (BMT/IND)

Line

IND Fulton Street Line
IND Culver Line
BMT Fourth Avenue Line

Services

      A (all times)
      C (all except late nights)
      F (all times)
      N (late nights)
      R (all except late nights)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus: B25, B26, B38, B41, B45, B52, B54, B57, B61, B62, B65, B67

MTA Bus: B103

Structure

Underground

Levels

Other information

Opened

December 10, 2010^[1]

Accessible

Traffic

Passengers (2014)

12,197,352 (station complex)^[2]

3.4%

Rank

26 out of 421

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops all times
	Stops late nights only

^[3]Jay Street – MetroTech is an underground station complex on the IND Fulton Street, IND Culver, and BMT Fourth Avenue Lines of the New York City Subway. Located at Willoughby Street between Jay and Lawrence Streets in Downtown Brooklyn, it is served (on the respective platforms) by the:

A and F trains at all times
C and R trains at all times except late nights
N train during late nights only

The complex consists of two distinct, perpendicular stations, formerly known as Jay Street – Borough Hall and Lawrence Street – MetroTech. Despite being nearly adjacent to each other, the stations remained separate for 77 years before the Metropolitan Transportation Authority constructed a transfer passageway as part of its 2005–2009 Capital Program. The work also brought the stations into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990^[4] and cosmetically improved the upper mezzanine. With the opening of the transfer on December 10, 2010, the complex was given its present name.^[1]^[5]^[6]^[7]

IND platforms

Jay Street – MetroTech

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Northbound station platform with a Jamaica-bound

train of R160 cars.

Station statistics

Division

B (IND)

Line

IND Fulton Street Line
IND Culver Line

Services

      A (all times)
      C (all except late nights)
      F (all times)

Platforms

2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange

Tracks

Other information

Opened

February 1, 1933^[8]

Accessible

Former/other names

Jay Street – Borough Hall

Station succession

Next north

High Street (Eighth): A C
York Street (Sixth): F

Next south

Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets (Fulton): A C
Bergen Street (Culver local): F
Bergen Street (Culver express): no regular service

north

Fulton Street: A C
Broadway – Lafayette Street (Sixth): F

south

Franklin Avenue (via Fulton local): A C
Utica Avenue (via Fulton express): A
Church Avenue (via Culver): F

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops all times
	Stops late nights only

Jay Street – MetroTech on the IND Fulton Street and Culver Lines has four tracks with two island platforms. Fulton Street trains use the center "express" tracks, while Culver Line trains use the outer "local" tracks. Although current service patterns route all IND Eighth Avenue Line trains to the Fulton Street Line and all IND Sixth Avenue Line trains to the Culver Line, diamond crossovers north of the station permit Eighth Avenue–Culver or Sixth Avenue–Fulton Street service; these switches are only used during service disruptions.

The station has blue columns on the Manhattan-bound platform and white tile columns on the Brooklyn-bound one. Before renovations, the trimline on the platform walls was two-tone Cobalt Blue with “JAY” tiled in white lettering on a black background underneath. After the renovations, the blue trim-line was widened and a double border of Heather Blue and black was added. The new blue tile in the centre of the trim-line is also somewhat darker than the original, the new color being shown as "Midnight Blue".

Each platform has six staircases and one elevator leading up to the full-length mezzanine. The full-time entrance is at the center and has a turnstile bank, token booth, and a single street stair leading to the northeast corner of Willoughby and Jay Streets, while a set of staircases and escalators and one elevator lead to the northwest corner underneath the former headquarters of the Independent Subway System.

The other two entrances/exits are unstaffed. The one at the north end has a weekday-only turnstile bank and token booth, full height turnstiles, and a wide staircase to MetroTech Center and set of stairs and escalators to New York City Transit Headquarters at 370 Jay Street. The entrance/exit at the south end has only full height turnstiles and two staircases leading to either side of Jay and Fulton Streets.

The southern portion of the mezzanine has an artwork installed in 2009 called Departures and Arrivals by Ben Snead. It consists of glass mosaic depicting animals including starlings, sparrows, lion fish, parrots, tiger beetles, and koi fish.

On May 8, 1952, four escalators went into service between the mezzanine and 370 Jay Street.

Until 1969, a free transfer was available to/from the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line at Bridge–Jay Streets and also issued at stations from Sumner Avenue on south. When the Myrtle Avenue Line south of Myrtle Avenue closed, the transfer was issued to the B54 bus, which ran along the former route. Today, the MetroCard provides free transfer between bus and subway throughout the system.

Gallery

Track geometry car on northbound track from IND Culver line
Demolition in progress
Column and sign on the IND platform

BMT platform

Jay Street – MetroTech

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station statistics

Division

B (BMT)

Line

BMT Fourth Avenue Line

Services

N (late nights)
R (all except late nights)

Platforms

1 island platform

Tracks

Other information

Opened

March 11, 1920

Accessible

Former/other names

Lawrence Street – MetroTech

Station succession

Next north

Court Street: N R

Next south

DeKalb Avenue: N R

north

Cortlandt Street (via tunnel): N R
Fulton Street (Nassau Street): no regular service

south

DeKalb Avenue: N R

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops late nights only

Jay Street – MetroTech, a local station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line, has an island platform supported by green I-beam columns and two tracks.^[9] Platform extensions are visible at the north end.

The full-time entrance is at Lawrence and Willoughby Streets near the west end. It has two platforms stairs facing the opposite direction, a small turnstile bank, token booth, and four stairs to the two eastern corners of the aforementioned intersection.

There is an additional full-height turnstile entrance at the east end. It formerly contained a booth and has two street stairs to Bridge and Willoughby Streets, high turnstiles, and two platform stairs. This fare control area was the first in the system to have its service gate converted to an emergency exit.

A narrow mezzanine above the platform connects both fare control areas. It still has its original directional signs labeled as "to Lawrence Street" and "to Bridge Street".

The platform has a narrow up-only escalator that bypasses the full-time fare control area and leads to a small landing with two high exit-only gates. A short staircase then goes to the landing of the southeast street stairs.

Gallery

Exit-only escalator from the BMT platform
Inside the BMT station; exit-only on the left and main entrance on the right
Entrance from street

Money train platforms

Money train door on southbound track of the IND platform

A retired money train car of the New York City Subway

Until their retirement in January 2006,^[10] IND "money trains" made their deposits from the northbound IND Culver line track. The still visible door on the wall is where they connected to the vaults above before armored trucks replaced them. BMT trains made their deposits at a special platform just west of the BMT station directly underneath. A special platform is also in the IRT Eastern Parkway Line tunnel that passes through this area for the same purpose.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent (Elevator at SE corner of Jay and Willoughby Streets)
B2	Northbound	← toward Jamaica – 179th Street (York Street)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Northbound	← toward Inwood – 207th Street (High Street) ← toward 168th Street (High Street)
	Southbound	→ toward Lefferts Boulevard, Far Rockaway – Mott Avenue, or Rockaway Park – Beach 116th Street (Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets) → → toward Euclid Avenue (Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Southbound	→ toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (Bergen Street) → (No service: Bergen Street lower level or Seventh Avenue)
B3	Northbound	← toward Forest Hills – 71st Avenue ( toward Ditmars Boulevard late nights) (Court Street)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Southbound	→ toward Bay Ridge – 95th Street ( toward Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue late nights) (DeKalb Avenue) →

Nearby points of interest

References

1 2 Mancini, John (December 10, 2010). "MTA Unveils New Jay Street/MetroTech Station In Downtown Brooklyn". NY1. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". New York: Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
↑ "Subway Escalators Opened". New York Times. May 9, 1952. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
↑ Campbell, Andy (October 13, 2010). "Jay Street to drop 'Boro Hall' and add 'Metrotech&apos". New York Post.
↑ John Mancini (December 3, 2010). "Long-Awaited Subway Transfers To Open In Brooklyn, Queens". NY1. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
↑ "Welcome to the New Jay Street/MetroTech Station!". MTA.info. December 10, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
↑ "Introducing Jay St-MetroTech Station". MTA.info YouTube page. December 10, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
↑ New York Times, City Opens Subway to Brooklyn Today, February 1, 1933, page 19
↑ Lawrence Street/MetroTech NYCSubway Retrieved 2009-06-24
↑ Vandam, Jeff (December 31, 2006). "Cash and Carry". New York Times. Retrieved December 24, 2010. 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.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jay Street – MetroTech (New York City Subway).

External video
Jay St-Lawrence St Transfer Project, Metropolitan Transportation Authority; July 2, 2010; 4:44 YouTube video clip (during construction phase of project)
Introducing Jay St-MetroTech Station, Metropolitan Transportation Authority; December 10, 2010; 1:41 YouTube video clip (completion of underground transfer between IND (A, C, F) and BMT (N, R) stations)

nycsubway.org—IND 8th Avenue: Jay Street/Borough Hall
nycsubway.org—BMT Broadway Subway: Lawrence Street/Metrotech
nycsubway.org — Departures and Arrivals Artwork by Ben Snead (2009)
Station Reporter — A Lefferts
Station Reporter — A Rockaway
Station Reporter — C Train
Station Reporter — F Train
Station Reporter — R Train
The Subway Nut — Jay Street – Borough Hall Pictures
The Subway Nut — Lawrence Street – Metro Tech Pictures
MTA's Arts For Transit — Jay Street — MetroTech
MTA.info — Welcome to the New Jay Street/MetroTech Station! Made December 10, 2010.
Willoughby Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Myrtle Avenue entrance near MetroTech from Google Maps Street View
Fulton Mall entrance from Google Maps Street View
Lawrence Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

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