Flushing Av
Flushing Avenue is a typical Broadway (Brooklyn) elevated local station that was renovated in 2001 to 2002. The station received elevators, making the station ADA compliant in 2003 and was on the list of Key ADA Stations because it is next to Woodhull Hospital. The station has two side platforms for the three track line with the middle express track bypassing it. The Middle Track is used by all peak direction weekday J and Z trains, To Manhattan 7:00am to 1:00pm and from Manhattan from 1:30pm to 8:00pm. The J train stops at the station in the non-peak direction during these times and in both directions evenings, late nights and on weekends.
The station's two side platforms are connected by a canopy that covers the area on each platform between the staircases down to the two station exits at each end of the platform. This is all except for most of the last or first car of all stopping trains. The platforms have cream colored windscreens (not quite the corrugated metal but closer to that look that more recently renovated elevated stations), with Green structural beams holding up the platform canopy.
The exit at the eastern end of platforms has two staircases, one from each platform that lead down to a mezzanine level beneath the platforms. There is also a retrofitted elevator. The elevator up to the Queens-bound platform is directly next to the street elevator (basically what resembles one double-wide shaft was built, except the shaft for the street elevator ends at the mezzanine level, with the shaft for this platform elevator continuing down to the street without a street landing). This elevator leads up to a small passageway cantilevered off the platform. The elevator up to the Manhattan-bound platform has its shaft suspended above the NE corner of Flushing Avenue and Broadway, it doesn't go down all the way to the street but has 4 steel pillars holding up the elevator shaft in the middle of the sidewalk (pedestrians walk right under the suspended elevator) with a short passageways at platform level and a slightly longer passageway at mezzanine level (to go along the length of the staircase and have a station house entrance).
At Mezzanine level are doors into the fully staffed with the token booth station house, that includes a free crossunder. There are High Exit Turnstiles at the landings allowing exiting passengers not to have to enter the station house. A staircase leads out to the NW corner of Flushing Avenue and Broadway, with a staircase and the street elevator lead out ot the SE corner, this exit layout is because the intersection with Flushing Avenue is at a 45 degree angle.
The station had just a closed station house and emergency exit at the eastern end of the platforms until July 2017, when it was one of the first stations in the neighborhood to quietly get its secondary exit reopened because the station has an ADA Accessible entrance. The MTA (after a SEPTA renovation was ruled illegal by a Federal court in 2011 since it didn't add elevators) finds that they are in a gray legal area that they interpreted as meaning no shuttered entrances could be reopened unless the station was made ADA Accessible (which is a goal the New York City subway needs to be striving for). This exit today consists of a staircase leading down from each to a High Entrance/Exit Turnstile outside of a closed station house (there is no free crossover or under at this end of the station). These each lead to their own streetstair. The Manhattan-bound platform leads down to the NE corner of Broadway and Fayette Streets. The Queens-bound platform is directly across the street from this streetstair at what is a T-intersection.
1-9: December 2, 2005; 10-15: July 24, 2008; 16-27: August 13, 2008
Arts For Transit at Flushing Avenue
Migration, 2006, laminated glass in Mezzanine windows and platform windscreens
By Robin Holder
Station Subway Lines (1988-2010)
