Lawrence Street–MetroTech (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)

Infobox NYCS
name=Lawrence Street–MetroTech

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font_color = black
font_color_2 = white
bg_color = #FFC800
bg_color_2 = #874F17
line = BMT Fourth Avenue Line
service = Montague
platforms = 1 island platform
tracks = 2
borough = Brooklyn
open_date = March 11, 1920
north_station = Court Street
north_line = BMT Fourth Avenue Line
north_service = Montague
south_station = DeKalb Avenue
south_station_acc = yes
south_line = BMT Broadway Line
south_service = Montague

Lawrence Street–MetroTech is a station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. The station is under Willoughby Street in Downtown Brooklyn, near the Transit Authority Building. It is an island platform on two tracks.

The station has a full time entrance at Lawrence Street with three street stairs and two platform stairs. The platform also contains an up-only escalator that bypasses the fare control area with high exit-only gates on the top leading to the southeast entrance. The part-time side at Bridge Street is HEET access at all times, but once contained a booth. The original directional sign exits are preserved, while the platform extends deep to the north end.

The station is directly below the Jay Street–Borough Hall IND station. Construction of a free transfer between the two stations is planned (and as of August 2007 has started) as part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2005–2009 Capital Program.

The platform for the "money train," where the BMT and IRT divisions previously dropped off their collections, is clearly visible in the tunnel as viewed from the western end of the platform; the IND money platform is upstairs near the Jay Street station. These platforms have not been used since the retirement of the fare collection trains in January 2006. [cite news |first=Jeff |last=Vandam |title=Cash and Carry |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/nyregion/thecity/31mone.html?ex=157680000&en=7f9eb6f4d0f34db4&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |work=New York Times |date=2006-12-31 |accessdate=2007-12-27 |quote=That may be why few New Yorkers probably noticed the retirement last January of this underground cash cache, done in by the arrival of the MetroCard and machines that allowed people to buy them by credit card.]

Bus connections

*B25
*B26
*B38
*B51
*B52
*B54
*B57
*B61
*B65
*B67
*B75

Nearby points of interest

*Polytechnic University of New York
*New York City College of Technology
*MetroTech Center
*Brooklyn Borough Hall
*Brooklyn Supreme Court
*Fulton Mall

References

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?202:1811|BMT Broadway Subway|Lawrence Street/Metrotech
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/rtrain.htm R Train]