36 Avenue (N,W) - The SubwayNut

36 Avenue-Washington Avenue is a local stop on the BMT Astoria Line with two side platforms for the three-tracked line. The platforms are only windscreened beneath their canopies except for the southern end of the Manhattan-bound platform where it extends down is also fully winscreened. 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. Here there is a newsstand and a decent sized area outside of fare control. To exit the subway system there is a single bank of turnstiles facing a token booth that barely seems to fit and walkways to street stairs to the SE and SW corners with one doubling back by two of the staircases up to the Manhattan-bound platform to reach a streetstair down to the NE corner of 36 Avenue.

The station was closed for a Cuomo's Sexy Station renovation and closed under the Enhanced station initivative 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.
Photos 1-9: February 14, 2006; 10-22: May 24, 2010; 23-48: September 5, 2023;