Division B (BMT) Transit connections NYCT Bus: B46, B48 Platforms 2 side platforms Opened 25 June 1888 Tracks 3 | Line BMT Jamaica Line Structure Elevated Borough Brooklyn Locale Williamsburg | |
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Services J (all times except weekdays 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., peak direction)
M (all times except late nights) Address Brooklyn, NY 11206, United States Similar Hewes Street, Flushing Avenue, Marcy Avenue, Cleveland Street, Myrtle Avenue | ||
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 train at all times except late nights.
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History
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 renamed Essex Street).
Station layout
There are two side platforms and three tracks. The center track is used by peak direction J and Z express services on weekdays in the peak direction. 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.
The 2002 artwork here is called Roundlet Series by Annette Davidek. 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.
Exits
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 staircases 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. Broadway on the IND Crosstown Line is about two blocks to the west from this entrance. Despite demands from G riders, there is no permanent free transfer from Lorimer Street to there; a free transfer was temporarily created in Summer 2014 due to the Hurricane Sandy-related shutdown of the IND Crosstown Line under the Newtown Creek. From January 2019 to at least July 2020, a free MetroCard-only transfer between the two stations will be provided due to a rehabilitation of the 14th Street Tunnel.
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.