Grand Street
Grand Street is a simple two side platform Canarsie Line Station in West Brooklyn. Each platform is completely open with the only supports between the tracks. The station's trim is a variety of colors, as well as the trim itself. The background of the name tablets are a quite elegant brown with an inside border of golden yellow and an outside border of a dark green.
Each platform has a single fare control area directly on the platform. This area is directly in the center of the platform; the conductor's door position faces the turnstiles. The Manhattan-bound platform contains the station's token booth, the Brooklyn-bound platform turnstiles have been unstaffed since the booth was removed in 2011. There is no free transfer between trains in opposite directions. Each exit has two staircases so there are subway entrances on all four corners of the intersection of Grand Street and Bushwick Avenue. The station is located on a bit of a curve so trains screech a lot when they enter and leave the station.
The station recieved some renovations and became fully ADA accessible on August 31, 2023 with the building of two new elevators. These new elevators are of the frosted glass with a curved canopy over the door at sidewalk level design. One leads from the Manhattan-bound platform (via a small corridor) to the NE corner of Bushwick Avenue and Grand Street. This elevator has just one door. Canarsie-bound platform's is down from the NW corner and has two doors due to street design considerations with passengers entering through one set of doors and leaving through the other set of doors.
When I visited in late September 2023 some signage on the platform was incorrect with arrows point correctly to the elevators on one side, but incorrectly pointing towards the ends of the platforms on the opposite side since the wheelchair boarding area is right in front of the turnstiles.
Photo 1-8: December 22, 2008; 9-41: September 24, 2023;
