Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum (2,3)

Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum is a simple IRT local stop. The station has two side platforms for the upper local level. There is a lower express level for express trains that skip the station beneath the local tracks. The side platforms each have a single staircase up to a small mezzanine area, towards there extreme western ends. This is where the turnstiles area as well as a free-crossover is provided. Two staircases leads up to street level, one is extra wide and leads up to the plaza in front of the Brooklyn Museum, as well as right next to the entrance to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This street stair is clad in marble and uniquely modern. There is a second exit via a conventional streetstairs across Eastern Parkway from the Museum.

The station was renovated in 2003 (a PDF of one of the take-one brochures when all Brooklyn-bound trains bypassed the station for the month of October is here). From 2019 through 2021 the station underwent a further $25.8 Million dollar renovation to make the station fully ADA accessible, three elevators were installed, one up from each platform to the mezzanine, right next to the staircases up to the platforms (no glass walls) and a single street elevator in a modern glass enclosure with the glass canopy at street level in the plaza next to the extra wide staircase in front of the Brooklyn Museum.

Each side platform has a the standard Dual-Contracts Vickers-era restored name tablets that are large and say Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum on two lines. These have white text on a blue background, with an inner mosaic line of green, a middle line of gold, and a brown outer boarder that has bigger tiles. The platforms also have the standard trim line, here most of it is green, with a gold inner boarder, and a bit of blue thrown in there as well. There are B's at various intervals along it. There is also a line of I-beam columns that are painted green along each platform, these have signs that alternate between Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn Museum.
Photos 1-22: June 29, 2009; 23-25: November 3, 2012; 26-35: November 27, 2023;

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One of the two entrance staircases to Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum, its one of the islands of Eastern Parkway, between the through lanes and local access lanes.

Looking across Eastern Parkway to the Brooklyn Museum, a subway entrance with a very unusual design is in the plaza in front of the museum.

The back of the subway entrance at the Brooklyn Museum, with the Romanesque Revival museum behind it.

A close up of a Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum sign on one of the station entrances.

Approaching the unusual staircase down to the Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum Station that's in front of the museum

The small mezzanine area outside of fare control with the wall full of artwork to one side and the MVMs and turnstiles to the others.

Another view of the wall of artwork from the Museum's permanent collection that has been permanently installed in the mezzanine area at Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum

A view of the small mezzanine area within fare control at Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum.

Approaching the staircase down to the Trains to Manhattan platform, in front of a High Entrance/Exit Turnstile that provides a bit easier access so passengers don't have to walk down to the turnstiles in the center of the mezzanine.

A restored Trains to Manhattan mosaic on the mezzanine area at Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum.

Approaching the eastern (southern) end of the Manhattan-bound platform at Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, just beyond the staircase down to it.

A close up of one of the many M's in the stations trim, that has green for the center line, with browns and blues for the boarders, and background for the M.

A Eastern Parkway column sign.

A Brooklyn Museum column sign.

Another view of the Manhattan-bound side platform at Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum.

Looking back down the Manhattan-bound platform at Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum.

Looking down towards the eastern (front) end of the Flatbush/New Lots-bound platform at Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, with the single staircase up to the mezzanine level in the foreground.

An Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum name tablet.

Another view of the end of the Flatbush/New Lots-bound platform, towards the end of it and the staircase up to street level.

Looking by a trash can and down the Flatbush/New Lots-bound platform at Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum.

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