30 Avenue (N,W) - The SubwayNut

30 Avenue-Grand Avenue is a local stop on the BMT Astoria Line with two side platforms for the three-tracked line. The station was closed (in both directions) for a Cuomo's sexy station renovation from October 23, 2017 through June 25, 2018. This resulted in the former fully winscreened with a cream colored corrugated design, being opened up and daylighted. The two platforms now have a muxture of mesh windscreens towards the ends of the platforms, under the platform canopies towards the middle of the platform area a mixture of black mixed with sets of full-height glass panels towards the middle of the platforms. The station house has been modernized with black walls and walls of laminated glass on 3 of its four sides allowing lots of natural light in. The entrance staircases are covered by black canopies with built in lighting, and entrance pylons designed to have LCD screens on them.

In the middle of the platform there are two staircases from each platform that lead down to a station house and fare control area beneath the tracks, each platform has its own small bank of turnstiles with the token booth inbetween and a free cross-under by walking through a narrow passageway on the north side of the station house. To get to street level two passageways leave this area passing the southern side of the staircases down to this station house from platform level first to the SW and SE corners before an additional area leads to the NW and NE corners of 30 Avenue and 31 Street.
Photos 1-8: January 17, 2005; 9-13: May 26, 2010; 14-16: September 3, 2012; 17-54: September 5, 2023;