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The Jay Street Station is currently undergoing a massive renovation that will completely change the layout of its mezzanine as well as provide a new free underground transfer to the M and R trains at Lawrence Street-MetroTech. The station has four tracks, the outside ones for the A,C and lead to Fulton Street, the inside ones for the F leading to the Culver Line, beyond the station are crossovers between the tracks so trains from the Culver Line can reach the Cranberry Street tubes and 8th Avenue, and vise-versa for Fulton Street trains reaching the Rutgers Street tubes. The station before it's renovations started had a full length mezzanine with three exits, one at its northern end with a turnstiles and a staffed booth during weekdays and High Entrance/Exit gates during other times, a central exit with full time fare control, and a fully unstaffed southern exit at the southern end of the platforms, with only High Entrance/Exit gates. The full length mezzanine was, before the renovations, completely continuous with a narrow passageway outside of fare control fenced alongside one wall and the portion inside fare control for many staircases down to the platforms. The station also has two exits that have escalators and stairs leading to them from street level to the mezzanine, this is because the station is built directly beneath the MTA headquarters at 370 Jay Street, and the former Board of Transportation that built the IND. There is still a silver door along the wall of the Brooklyn-bound F platform where the money trains connections were taken to the vaults of the building before trucks replaced them. The station's platforms have blue columns on the Manhattan-bound platform and fully white tiled columns on the Brooklyn-bound one. Before renovations the trim was a simple blue line with a black boarder along the platform walls with Jay tiled ever so often as the trim. As part of the renovations the platforms have been retiled with a wider blue trim-line and a narrow band of a turquoise blue before the narrow black trim-line. |
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(jaya1) One of the escalators down to the northern entrance to Jay St-Borough Hall.
22 January, 2005 (jaya2) Looking across the A tracks to a very crowed Brooklyn-bound platform, with lots of passengers waiting for F trains.
24 October, 2005 (jaya3) A Manhattan-bound R38 C train stops at Jay St-Borough Hall at a crowded platform during the PM rush hour.
14 November, 2005 (jaya4) One end of the Manhattan-bound platform at Jay St-Borough Hall.
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(jaya5) Looking down an empty Manhattan-bound platform at Jay St-Borough Hall.
6 June, 2007 (jaya6) Looking across to a crowded Brooklyn-bound platform at Jay St.
6 June, 2007 (jaya7) An original mosaic sign for the exit to Willoughby St and Myrtle Ave on the mezzanine at Jay St-Borough Hall.
6 June, 2007 (jaya8) Looking down one of the passageways that connects all of the exits at Jay St-Borough Hall
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(jaya9) A wide area of the mezzanine at Jay St outside of fare control, with lots of white tiled columns.
6 June, 2007 (jaya10) MVMs, turnstiles, and an exit staircase for the center exit on the mezzanine at Jay St-Borough Hall.
6 June, 2007 (jaya11) Looking down a passageway, outside of fare control, to the side of the area within fare control and staircases down to the platforms at Jay St.
6 June, 2007 (jaya12) The part time turnstiles at the northern entrance to Jay St-Borough Hall.
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(jaya13) The MTA's Reduced-Fare MetroCard Service Center used to be within the escalator and stair area to the northern end of Jay St underneath 370 Jay St at street level.
6 June, 2007 (jaya14) The back of a Queens-bound R42 #4571 A train stopped at Jay St.
27 May, 2008 (jaya15) A close up of a column sign on the Brooklyn-bound (its columns are fully tiled)at Jay St-Borough Hall.
27 May, 2008 (jaya16) Passengers get on and off of R46 #5728, the last car of a Coney Island-bound F train at Jay St-Borough Hall.
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