Lexington Market - (MARC Baltimore Metro SubwayLink) x- The SubwayNut

Lexington Market is a Baltimore Metro SubwayLink Station with a single island platform located in a large, cavernous box underground. The platform feels particularly airy because, although the station does have a full-length mezzanine it doesn't take up the full width of the mezzanine only running above the Owings Mills-bound track. Otherwise, the platform has lots of concrete cross ribbing just above platform level (with light fixtures hanging form it). On every cross beam are ceramic mosaics containing artwork by Patricia Alexander that add a pop of color to the otherwise grey concrete. The platform floor is largely square brown floor tiles with a pop of black tiles forming a checkerboard pattern before the platform edges that lead out to a tactile warning strip.

To leave the platform there are banks of escalators plus stairs towards either end of the platform, these lead up (via short intermediate mezzanines, that include an intermediate landing) to the ends of the mezzanine level that becomes full width. A platform elevator is at only the northern end of the platform. These lead up to the station's two exits.

The northern exit is at the NW corner of Saratoga Street and Eutaw Street. Here the entrance is in a wide open but covered plaza with lots of pillars holding up the Maryland Transit Administrations Building above the entrances. To enter the subway, a staircase and up escalator, plus the street elevator lead down to a short connecting passageway that leads to a bank of turnstiles at the northern end of the mezzanine.

The southern exit is located inside a sunken open-air plaza at the NE corner of Lexington and Eutaw Streets. This entrance contains an open-air bank of staircases/escalators that lead down from Lexington Street into the subway system beneath a canopy structure that looks like a white sail. This sail extends to the major bus stop around the corner along Eutaw Street just around the corner from the station entrance. This entrance was closed and being rebuilt when I visited this station in 2009. This is the closest Metro station to the Light RailLink, with its Lexington Market Station a block away down Lexington Avenue at Howard Street.
Photos 1-16 taken on June 16, 2009;

The sign for the Metro Station (and bus connections)

Looking across to construction and the closed entrance in front of the Lexington Market

Looking past fencing at the blue Metro entrance pylon at the construction site in front of Lexington Market

A 2009 view of the main entrance to World Famous Lexington Market Since 1782

Looking across to the bus stop under construction in front of the main entrance to Lexington Market

Looking across the street to the northern, open entrance to Lexington Market

People outside the northern entrance to Lexington Market

The Metro Subway Connections map (the subway is green) on the Blue Lexington Market pylon

Entering the subway, approaching the northern bank of faregates

Heading down to the platform via a mid-mezzanine, there is a narrow connecting mezzanine between the entrances, closed right now since the south entrance is closed

Heading down the second set of escalators to the platform below

The Track wall signs an LED sign, a Lexington Market name sign and a blue strip map with a red dot for your current location

Looking down the platform, mosaics by Patricia Alexander provide a pop of color

Looking down the platform at a staircase

The closed bank of two escalators to reach the one station exit, its just a very long flight of stairs

A long exposure bench photo, the checkerboard pattern on the platform floor is visible