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The Lafayette Avenue Station is served by an almost full length mezzanine that doesn't quite cover the western ends of the platform. The station is a rare IND local stop, with two side platforms for the 4 track subway line, that retains every street stair from opening day, with 9 total streetstairs up from the mezzanine, and the same number of staircases, 5 up from the Manhattan-bound platform, 4 up from the Euclid Avenue-bound platform connecting each platform to the mezzanine. The station is somewhat deep and all 9 of the streetstairs contain short staircases before a passageway to the actual streetstair.

The mezzanine is of the split areas within fare control design so there is no crossover or under, but all station exits can be fully open at all times for the single token booth in the middle of the mezzanine, facing two seperate sets of turnstiles for entry into each direction. Towards each end of the mezzanine, closer to the exits are High Entrance and Exit turnstiles that provide a way to enter the subway with less walking than would be required to get to the turnstiles at the center of the mezzanine. This means the regular turnstiles by the token booth get practically no use since they are far away from any entrance or exit.

At the western end of the mezzanine the station contains 4 streetstairs lead out to all four corners (one at each corner) of South Portland Avenue and Fulton Street.

The eastern end of the mezzanine has five streestairs to an unusual six-way intersection where Fulton Street crosses South Oxford Street at a bit of an angle and Hanson Place and Greene Avenue end at the intersection at quite strange angles. These streetstairs in clockwise order, are to the NE corner of South Oxford Street and Fulton Street, the NW corner of Greene Avenue and Fulton Street, a longer corridor up to the NE corner of Greene Avenue and Fulton Street in front of Cuyler Park, a corridor to the east side of the tiny block formed by Hason Place between South Oxford Street and Fulton Street, and to the NW corner of Hanson Place and South Oxford Street.

On the mezzanine there is well-worn but still readable black-text painted on the tiled walls at many of the exit staircases saying where they go before hanging signs became the norm. The station platforms have green name tablets and trim, with no columns on the platforms but all the columns on the mezzanine are painted lime green.
Photos 1-30: June 25, 2008

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