Lorimer Street
Lorimer Street is a typical Broadway (Brooklyn) elevated local station that was renovated in 2001 to 2002. It 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 western end of platforms has two staircases that lead down to a mezzanine level beneath the platforms. Here there 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. Streetstairs lead out to the NW corner of Lorimer Street and Broadway, and close to the SW corner that is more midblock along Broadway in front of the Lindsay Triangle between Lorimer Street and Throop Avenue.
At the eastern end of the station is the station's unstaffed secondary exits. Here a staircase leads down 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 Brooklyn-bound platform leads down to the southside of Broadway between Walton and Wallabout Streets. The northside streetstair is directly across from here, west of Moore Street (which Wallabout Street becomes after crossing Broadway).
1: December 14, 2003; 2-29: December 2, 2005; 30-32: July 24, 2008
Station Subway Lines (1988-2010)
