ĭespite the IND station's name on tiling, there is no longer an open exit to Grand Street. Originally, only one of these exits was planned to be reopened. They were reopened on Februto accommodate the increased volume of passengers transferring between the Crosstown and Canarsie Line stations due to the 14th Street Tunnel shutdown. The exits to Powers and Hope Streets were previously closed in 2000 due to safety concerns, blocked by metal street grates, and used as emergency exits. The IND platforms have one stair leading to the northwestern corner of Union Avenue and Hope Street and another leading to the northeastern corner of Union Avenue and Powers Street. The BMT platforms have a second set to the eastern corners of Lorimer Street and Metropolitan Avenue at their east ends. Įach platform has a second set of entrances. The high entry-exit turnstiles in the transfer corridor would be replaced with waist-high "low turnstiles" to accommodate increased passenger flow. The main entrances at the corner of Metropolitan and Union Avenues lead to the transfer corridor between the lines. A precinct of the New York City Transit Police is also located on the Crosstown Line mezzanine. The 2000 artwork in the transfer passageway and the Crosstown Line mezzanine is called Signs of Life by Jackie Chang. A contract for five elevators at the station (three at Lorimer Street and two at Metropolitan Avenue) was awarded in December 2020. In 2019, the MTA announced that this station would become ADA-accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program.
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On July 1, 1948, eight years after the three operators of New York's subways were unified into a single entity, the transfer passageway was reconfigured to be inside fare control, thus permitting free transfers between lines. Originally, passengers who wished to transfer between the Canarsie and Crosstown lines had to pay a separate fare, because the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (operator of the Canarsie Line) and the Independent Subway System (the Crosstown Line's operator) were competing companies. When viewed from the Crosstown Line mezzanine, the passageway splits up as the right half leads to a ramp for Canarsie-bound trains while the left half leads to a crossunder to Eighth Avenue-bound trains. The L-shaped passageway, located above the Crosstown Line at its northern end and below the Canarsie Line at its western end, also serves as the mezzanine for the Crosstown Line lower level. → toward Rockaway Parkway ( Graham Avenue) →įare control, station agent, MetroCard machines, connection between platforms