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Cypress Hills is a J train skip-stop. It is the only station on the J line in Brooklyn that hasn't been renovated in the past ten years (after 2000) It appears that it was renovated in the early 1990s before the MTA went to its new design for elevated station judging from the installation date of the strange Arts For Transit Installation, as well as some decorative arrows along the windscreens. It is also the first beyond Broadway Junction to go back to the conventional side platform configuration on the Jamaica Avenue elevated. There is room for a third track that has never been added.

The station also still has two exits that are opened. The main fare control area, and only place to enter the system is along Jamaica Avenue between Hemlock Street and Crescent Street on the southwestern ends of the two side platforms, this is just before the elevated goes around a 45 degree curve to follow Crescent Street down to Fulton Street. Two streetstairs lead down to a conventional fare control area underneath the tracks with a single staircase down to both sides of Jamaica Avenue.

There is a former fare control area at the northeastern end of the station platforms. On the Manhattan-bound platform there is no longer access with the former streetstair to the northside of Jamaica Avenue (along the Cypress Hills Cemetery). The Jamaica-bound platform has a single staircase down to a High Exit Turnstile, passing the now closed station house with a single exit only streetstair down to the SE corner of Autumn Avenue and Jamaica Avenue.

2013 Update: All 3 of the streetstairs have been replaced with modern light green structures that have decorative circles on top of them above modern red roofs, the platforms have not been replaced.
1-20: June 25, 2008; 21-46: March 8, 2013;

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