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Brairwood-Van Wyck Blvd is a local stop along the Queens Blvd Line, called simply Van Wyck Blvd for most of its life Brairwood was added to the name in the 1990s to differentiate the station from Jamaica-Van Wyck on the E line just one stop south that only opened with the rest of the Archer Avenue extension that in 1988. E trains use a flying junction that can lead to either the express or local tracks just beyond (east of) the station, but only stop at the station during Evenings and Overnights and on Weekends when the Express tracks here are used for laying up trains. The station itself is like the rest here on the Queens Blvd line with two side platforms that lead up to a mezzanine that is much more modest than most on the line. The mezzanine here is almost entirely outside of fare control, there is no free transfer between directions here, just about four staircases from each platform that lead to a bank of turnstiles that are mostly enclosed by a very ugly floor to ceiling chain link fence, the token booth is in between them, various some long passageways then lead to the exits. The mezzanine must have been much bigger at some time a transit police precinct now occupies the rest of it other than the area with fare control that is only over a relatively small portion of the platform. The platform has teal blue columns, with yellow borders over the white text on black name tablets, and yellow trim with a black border. |
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