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The IRT Franklin Avenue Station is an IRT express station with two island platforms that are in middle of wideness when it comes to IRT stations, but would definitely be wider if built today. Each platform has a line of yellow I-beam columns along each track. The track walls that are the walls of the station has a typical Dual-Contracts Vickers-era trim line that is quite hard to see, and mostly looks to be brown with Fs at regular intervals along it. There is a tiny section of platform that has 1950s era Franklin Ave painted on tile towards the extreme western end of the station.

The station's main exit is at a standard and small IRT mezzanine towards the center of the platforms. Two staircases lead up to this mezzanine that includes a free cross-over, before the turnstiles and token booth. From here staircases on each side of the turnstiles lead out to either of the median malls of Eastern Parkway, just east of the intersection with Franklin Avenue. In addition to small underpass passageways (the one to the south requires passengers to go down before going up) lead to NE and SE corners of Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway's two Service Roads. These provider better access to local buildings.

The connection to the Franklin Avenue Shuttle is from another mezzanine area towards the western end of the platforms, this has a staircase down to each platform that leads to a passageway up to the southern end of Franklin Avenue-bound, Franklin Avenue Shuttle platform. This transfer was only added when the Franklin Avenue Shuttle was closed to be rebuilt in 1998-1999. The mezzanine is definately older than that and I believe originally contained at secondary exits up to the street, but there is poor evidence of the former streetstairs.
Photo 1: January 24, 2004; 2-6: May 29, 2009; 7-13: June 29, 2009; 14-17: November 25, 2023;

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