Nassau Avenue station

Nassau Avenue
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
View from northbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Nassau Avenue & Manhattan Avenue Brooklyn, NY
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Greenpoint
Coordinates	40°43′26″N73°57′03″W / 40.723811°N 73.95082°W / 40.723811; -73.95082
Division	B (IND) [1]
Line	IND Crosstown Line
Services	G   (all times)
Transit	NYCT Bus: B43, B48, B62
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	August 19, 1933;90 years ago (August 19, 1933) [2]
Opposite- direction transfer	Yes
Traffic
2023	2,320,186 [3]   19.5%
Rank	144 out of 423 [3]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Greenpoint Avenue toward Court Square Metropolitan Avenue toward Church Avenue
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend to Greenpoint Avenue to Metropolitan Avenue
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times

The Nassau Avenue station is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Manhattan and Nassau Avenues in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, it is served by the G train at all times.

History

This station opened on August 19, 1933 as the initial terminal station for the IND Crosstown Line. ^[2] With the completion of the Crosstown Line on July 1, 1937, Nassau Avenue ceased to be the line's terminal. ^{[4] [5]}

New York City councilmember Lincoln Restler founded a volunteer group, the Friends of MTA Station Group, in early 2023 to advocate for improvements to the Nassau Avenue station and four other subway stations in Brooklyn. ^{[6] [7]}

Station layout

Ground	Street level	Entrances/exits
Mezzanine		Station agent, fare control, MetroCard machines
Basement 2	Side platform
	Northbound	← toward Court Square (Greenpoint Avenue)
	Southbound	→ toward Church Avenue (Metropolitan Avenue) →
	Side platform

Station stair with bike racks

This underground station has two tracks and two side platforms. ^{[8] [9]} The G stops at the station at all times. ^[10] The station is between Greenpoint Avenue to the north and Metropolitan Avenue to the south. ^[11]

Both platforms have a green trim line with a black border and mosaic name tablets reading "NASSAU AVE." in white sans-serif lettering on a black background and green border. Small "NASSAU" tile captions in white lettering on a black background run directly below the trim line and directional signs in the same style are below some of the name tablets. The tiles were part of a color-coded tile system used throughout the IND. ^[12] The tile colors were designed to facilitate navigation for travelers going away from Lower Manhattan. Because the Crosstown Line does not merge into a line that enters Manhattan at either end, all stations on the line had green tiles. ^{[13] [14]} Green I-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black name plate in white lettering. ^[2]

North of the station is a diamond crossover switch, allowing terminating trains to reverse direction. ^{[8] [9] [15]} These switches were used in regular service until July 1, 1937, when the remainder of the Crosstown Line opened. ^{[4] [5]} Prior to that, Nassau Avenue was the line's southern terminus. ^{[2] [16] [17]} South of the station, the line shifts from Manhattan Avenue onto Union Avenue, running diagonally under McCarren Park. ^[18]

Exits

The station's full-time fare control is at the south end, which is the more heavily used of the station's two entry-exit points. A short staircase from each platform goes up to mezzanine level. On the Church Avenue-bound side, one exit-only turnstile and one High Entry/Exit Turnstile leads to two staircases going up to either western corners of Manhattan and Nassau Avenues. The Queens-bound side has the station's full-time turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircases going up to either eastern corners of the same intersection. A raised crossover connects the two sides both inside and outside fare control and is split in two by a steel fence. The mezzanine has mosaic directional signs in white lettering on a green background. ^{[8] [18]} G trains, which are about half the length of the 600-foot (180 m) platform, stop near the south end of the station. ^{[8] [15]}

Both platforms have an unstaffed platform-level fare control at their north end, with no crossover. On the Church Avenue-bound side, one exit-only turnstile and one High Entry/Exit Turnstile lead to a single staircase going up to the northwest corner of Norman and Manhattan Avenues. On the Queens-bound side, a single full height turnstile leads to a staircase going up to the northeast corner of the same intersection. ^{[8] [18]}

In preparation for the 14th Street Tunnel shutdown in 2019, it was initially planned to reconfigure the split free/paid area at the south end of the station into an exclusively unpaid area. This would have removed the free transfer between platforms, but would have allowed for increased flow from passengers entering and exiting the station. ^[19] Though this was not done,^{[ citation needed ]} a project to replace high-entry/exit turnstiles at the station with four low turnstiles was completed in January 2019. ^[20]

References

1. "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
2. "Two Subway Units Open At Midnight; Links in City-Owned System in Queens and Brooklyn to Have 15 Stations" (PDF). The New York Times . August 18, 1933. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
3. "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
4. "New Crosstown Subway Line Is Opened". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. July 1, 1937. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
5. Kramer, Frederick A. (January 1, 1990). Building the Independent Subway. Quadrant Press. ISBN   9780915276509.
6. Brendlen, Kirstyn (February 24, 2023). "Restler launches new 'Friends of MTA Station' initiative to care for 5 local subway stops". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
7. Nessen, Stephen (March 5, 2023). "Want to be 'friends' with a subway station? A Brooklyn councilmember seeks volunteers". Gothamist. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
8. "Review of the G Line: Appendices" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 10, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
9. Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC   49777633 – via Google Books.
10. "GSubway Timetable, Effective July 2, 2023". Metropolitan Transportation Authority . Retrieved August 26, 2023.
11. "Subway Map" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. September 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2021.
12. "Tile Colors a Guide in the New Subway; Decoration Scheme Changes at Each Express Stop to Tell Riders Where They Are". The New York Times. August 22, 1932. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on July 1, 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
13. Carlson, Jen (February 18, 2016). "Map: These Color Tiles In The Subway System Used To Mean Something". Gothamist. Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
14. Gleason, Will (February 18, 2016). "The hidden meaning behind the New York subway's colored tiles". Time Out New York. Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
15. "Review of the G Line" (PDF). mta.info . Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 10, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
16. "Independent Subway Services Beginning in 1932". thejoekorner.com. August 21, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
17. O'Neill, Natalie (July 19, 2012). "G wiz! MTA plans to save the G train extension!". The Brooklyn Paper . Retrieved July 21, 2012.
18. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Greenpoint" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
19. New York City Transit Authority (July 2018). "MTA New York City Transit Canarsie Tunnel Project Supplemental Environmental Assessment and Section 4(f) Review: Final Report" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. p. 15. Retrieved July 27, 2018.
20. "MTA Investment Reconfiguration of Fare Control Areas (FCA) Replace High Entry/Exit Turnstiles (HEETs) with Low Entry Turnstiles (TS)". archive.org. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2021. Retrieved May 27, 2024.

External links

• nycsubway.org – IND Crosstown Line: Nassau Avenue
• Station Reporter — G Train
• The Subway Nut — Nassau Avenue Pictures
• Nassau Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Norman Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View