The High Street-Brooklyn Bridge station is located at the Brooklyn end of the deep-boar Cranberry Street underwater tunnel beneath the East River. The station has a single island platform with two tracks with curved walls on either side of it. The curved platform walls have a two purple tile wide trim line, with a black boarder and High written in tile at extremely short intervals beneath it. The station has a narrow deep-level mezzanine just one short flight of stairs above the platform it used to be full length but a small portion of it at the western (northern) end of the station has been closed with an abandoned staircase still on the platform.
It now begins right at the western exit from the station, at about halfway in between the center of the platform and its western end. This exit has a large bank of two narrow escalators, a staircase, and a wide (two people abreast) escalator, that leads up to an upper mezzanine area with turnstiles and a single double-length (its longer than many) staircase out to Cadman Plaza West. Walking up this staircase gives the rush of wind like being in a wind tunnel courtesy of the pressure differences between the underwater tube and the outside world.
The stations second (that was fully staffed with a Customer Service Agent until 2011) has regular turnstiles and is at the opposite end of the mezzanine beyond the eastern (southern) end of the station's platform, the closest staircase to the exit is in what would be the eastern (southern) end wall. The narrow mezzanine doesn't get any wider and there is a bank of two single-width escalators and a staircase that lead up to a small fare control area with a bank of turnstiles where there is one staircase up to Cadman Plaza East and Red Cross Place, on the south side of Adams Street and the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge. There is another tunnel that continues of decent length as it goes under Adams Street and the Brooklyn Bridge's approach to the station's final exit to Adams St North, near High Street, the station's one-block long namesake street.
Photos 1 & 2: June 12, 2007; 3-5: May 16, 2008; 6-24: June 9, 2009; 25 & 26: July 3, 2009; 27 & 28: December 17, 2003; 29 & 30: December 30, 2010
Looking down the long and narrow deep mezzanine level at High St.
Another view down the long an narrow mezzanine level at High St.
A High St-Brooklyn Bridge platform column.
Looking at the purple trimline with a black boarder and black High text beneath it along the platform walls at High St.
A close up of a staircase down to the platform from the mezzanine at High Street, it doesn't need to say Manhattan, Queens, Lefferts Blvd & The Rockaways, it could just say To All Trains.
Looking down the island platform at High Street with a staircase up to the Cadman Plaza East Exit visible.
Another view down the long and narrow deep-level mezzanine at High Street, with a gate that could close off nothing along it.
Before the escalators and staircase up to the eastern exit at High Street, the low-level mezzanine begins sloping up a bit.
Looking down the sloped portion of the mezzanine at High Street to the main portion of the mezzanine.
A staircase down to the platform from the mezzanine at High Street.
The two narrow escalators and staircase up to the exits and upper mezzanine level at the eastern end of the High Street Station.
A sing for the stairs and escalators up to High St, Adams St, and Cadman Plaza East.
Old painted on the tile text for the Adams & High Street exit up their escalators and To Hotel St. George at the other end of the station.
Looking up the staircase up to the High Street exit at the eastern (southern) end of High Street Station.
The small upper-mezzanine area and fare control at the eastern (southern) exit to High Street and Adams Street
Some warn off tile text for the now closed to the public ladies room on the eastern upper-mezzanine at High St & Adams St.
The top of the two escalators up to the quite small eastern end (southern end) fare control mezzanine to Adams St, Cadman Plaza East and High Street.
The upper eastern mezzanine might have been a bit bigger at some time, an area is gated off.
A Adams Street exit mosaic on the wall of the mezzanine system at High Street
There used to be yet another exit to Washington Street on the closed portion of the eastern side of the station's upper mezzanine. This mosiac has been painted over and was for it
Last Updated: January 2, 2023
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