Jay Street-Borough Hall was the previous name of this IND station before it underwent a massive renovation from 2007 through 2010. The station's original configuration was 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 turnstiles 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 turnstiles. The full-length mezzanine had a completely continuous with a narrow passageway outside of fare control fenced alongside the north wall and the portion inside fare control for many staircases down to the platforms. The station also has two entrances that have fare control off street, with escalators and stairs leading to them from street level to the mezzanine. This is because the station is built directly beneath the former MTA headquarters at 370 Jay Street, and the former Board of Transportation Headquarters that built the IND. There is still a silver door along the wall of the Brooklyn-bound F platform where the money trains collections were taken to the vaults of the building before trucks replaced them. I remember seeing the money train doing this once in 2005 before the last money train operated in 2006. The station's platforms originally had blue columns on the Manhattan-bound platform and fully white tiled columns on the Brooklyn-bound one (since they were underpinning buildings). 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.
Photo(s) 1: January 22, 2005; 2: October 24, 2005; 3: November 14, 2005; 4-13: June 6, 2007; 14-17: May 27, 2008; 18-27: June 5, 2009; 28-30: August 15, 2007; 31-34: June 18, 2009; 35-43: July 6, 2009; 44-54: May 28, 2010
One of the escalators down to the northern entrance to Jay St-Borough Hall.
Looking across the A tracks to a very crowed Brooklyn-bound platform, with lots of passengers waiting for F trains.
A Manhattan-bound R38 C train stops at Jay St-Borough Hall at a crowded platform during the PM rush hour.
One end of the Manhattan-bound platform at Jay St-Borough Hall.
Looking down an empty Manhattan-bound platform at Jay St-Borough Hall.
Looking across to a crowded Brooklyn-bound platform at Jay St.
An original mosaic sign for the exit to Willoughby St and Myrtle Ave on the mezzanine at Jay St-Borough Hall.
Looking down one of the passageways that connects all of the exits at Jay St-Borough Hall
A wide area of the mezzanine at Jay St outside of fare control, with lots of white tiled columns.
MVMs, turnstiles, and an exit staircase for the center exit on the mezzanine at Jay St-Borough Hall.
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.
The part time turnstiles at the northern entrance to Jay St-Borough Hall.
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.
The back of a Queens-bound R42 #4571 A train stopped at Jay St.
A close up of a column sign on the Brooklyn-bound (its columns are fully tiled)at Jay St-Borough Hall.
Passengers get on and off of R46 #5728, the last car of a Coney Island-bound F train at Jay St-Borough Hall.
R142A #7350 runs through Jay Street not-in-service on the Euclid Avenue-bound track, don't know how it found itself on the B Division.
A retiled portion of the platform wall at Jay Street with the new darker blue trim, with both a lighter blue inner boarder and a black outer boarder, the size of Jay written underneath hasn't changed.
Looking down the Coney Island-bound F track by many pillars that have been stripped of there tiles and are just bare concrete.
A staircase up to Myrtle Av Promenade, Jay St, and Metrotech on the Brooklyn-bound platform that is being completely rebuilt, most of it has the modern faux-marble squares for the platform floor, but other parts still have the old concrete.
Last Updated: 8 June, 2009
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