Fulton Street (G) - The SubwayNut

Fulton Street is another Crosstown Line Station with two side platforms for the two-tracked line. The platforms have a bit of an unusual exit layout because at the western end of the station, the 4 tracks of the Fulton Street subway join the G train tracks and have 6 tracks run under Lafayette Avenue. This 6 track subway line curves onto Schermerhorn Street when the angle of the grid changes at Flatbush Avenue. The G train tracks eventually dip under the northern Manhattan-bound Fulton Street Line tracks to become the center tracks at the 6 track Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets Station.

The Church Avenue-bound Platform has the full-time exit at its extreme southern end out to Fulton Street, with turnstiles and the token booth. Streetstairs lead out to the NW corner of the angled intersection of Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue (just east of Fort Greene Place at this angled intersection), and the NE corner of Fort Greene Place & Lafayette Avenue. Just beyond the turnstiles a single staircase leads down to small underpass to another single staircase up to the Queens-bound platform. This was the station's only open exit (with all passengers needing the Smith-9th Street-bound platform to use the underpass) until 2005.

When the station opened there was a small mezzanine over the eastern end of the platform with at least two to three staircases up to it from each platform. This mezzanine and it's two exits were closed off in the mid-1980s with most of the mezzanine turned into Track Crew Quarters. This mezzanine includes a staircase up from the Queens-bound platform that says Employees Only and is closed off by a gate. In September 2005, the MTA listened to community concerns and one tiny section of the mezzanine was re-opened for passenger use. A staircase leads up from only the Queens-bound platform up to a very tiny mezzanine level where there is a single High Entrance/Exit turnstile, as well as a gated off door that says Track Crew Quarters/Authorized Personal only, and then a single staircase up to street level at the SW corner of Lafayette Avenue and South Portland Street. When I visited in 2008, there was a closed streetstair at the NW corner Lafayette Avenue and South Portland Street, that otherwise had its structure intact. In mid-2009 this staircase was reopened to the public leading down to a similar tiny open landing on the mezzanine with a single High/Entrance Exit turnstile and staircase down to the Church Avenue-bound platform.
Photos 1-11: December 22, 2008

A Fulton St name tablet on the Smith-9th Sts platform with tiling for the exit to Fulton St beneath it.

Looking down the Smith 9th Sts-bound side platform at Fulton St.

Approaching the front (southern end) of the Smith 9th Sts-bound platform at Fulton St with the staircase down to the Underpass for Queens-bound G trains visible, and the station's exit.

Looking down the Queens-bound platform at Fulton St as a R46 G train leaves the station.

A Fulton St name tablet and sign for the only exit on the Queens-bound platform to South Portland Ave.

A staircase up to the formerly quite long mezzanine at Fulton Street now says just employees only.

An old font sign on the tiny mezzanine for the South Portland Street exit saying Queens G.

A view of the tiny mezzanine for South Portland Street's exit at Fulton Street, after passing through the high exit gate, the gated door for Track Crew Quarters is visible.

The staircase down from the South Portland Street exit at Fulton Street for Queens G trains.

The closed exit across South Portland Street that would lead down to the now basically closed mezzanine and Smith-9th Sts bound platform with its big no entry sign.

No passengers through this staircase please, the top has been ply-wooded off, the bottom the standard gate of a closed entrance to Fulton St.