Jay Street–Borough Hall (New York City Subway)

Infobox NYCS
name = Jay Street–Borough Hall


bg_color = #11117D
bg_color_2 = #FF6E1A
line = IND Fulton Street Line
line_2 = IND Culver Line
service = Jay Street
platforms = 2 island platforms
tracks = 4
passengers=8.738 million
pass_year=2006
pass_percent=3
borough = Brooklyn
open_date=February 1, 1933New York Times, City Opens Subway to Brooklyn Today, February 1, 1933, page 19]
north_custom_station = NYCS next|type=Eighth|station=High Street–Brooklyn Bridge|line=IND Eighth Avenue Line|service=Cranberry
north_custom_station_2 = NYCS next|type=Sixth|station=York Street|line=IND Sixth Avenue Line|service=Sixth far south
south_custom_station = NYCS next|type=Fulton|station=Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets|line=IND Fulton Street Line|service=Eighth far south express
south_custom_station_2 = NYCS next|type=Culver|station=Bergen Street|line=IND Culver Line|service=Sixth Rutgers

Jay Street–Borough Hall is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line and the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, [Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York), PDFlink| [http://www.mta.info/mta/budget/pdf/adopted07_2.pdf Consolidated 2007 Adopted Budget] |631 KiB , accessed April 17, 2007] located on Jay Street between Fulton Mall and Myrtle Promenede, near MetroTech Center. The full-time exit is at Willoughby Street, with auxiliary part time exits at MetroTech, and Fulton Mall.

The station has four tracks, with two island platforms. NYCS|A and NYCS|C trains use the center "express" tracks, and NYCS|F trains use the outer "local" tracks. There are switches just north of the station, permitting Fulton Street Line trains to switch to the IND Sixth Avenue Line, or Culver Line trains to switch to the IND Eighth Avenue Line. These switches are often used for construction re-routes, with trains switching back to their usual routes at West Fourth Street–Washington Square.

The Lawrence Street–MetroTech station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line is directly beneath. A free transfer between the stations is planned as part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2005–2009 Capital Program and (as of August 2007) is currently under construction.

Until their retirement 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.] IND "money trains" made their deposits here, as the IRT and BMT divisions made theirs at the adjacent-but-disconnected Lawrence Street station.

Bus connections

*B25
*B26
*B37 to Sunset Park and Bay Ridge
*B38
*B41 to Flatbush, Midwood and Kings Plaza via Flatbush Avenue
*B51 to Lower Manhattan via Manhattan Bridge
*B52
*B54 to Ridgewood
*B57
*B61 to Long Island City, Queens
*B65 Bergen Street line
*B67 north to DUMBO; south to Park Slope, Kensington
*B75 north to DUMBO; south to Park Slope, Prospect Park
*B103 to Kensington, Midwood, Flatbush and Canarsie

Nearby points of interest

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

References

Gallery

External links

*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?7:1675|IND 8th Avenue|Jay Street/Borough Hall
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/aleff.htm A Lefferts]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/arock.htm A Rockaway]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ctrain.htm C Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ftrain.htm F Train]