Hoyt Street-Fulton Mall-Bridge St (2,3)

The Hoyt Street Station is a simple IRT local stop on a 4 track subway line with two side platforms that can only be serviced by trains coming to and from the 7th Avenue line (2,3 trains). All the Lexington Avenue line trains (4,5) have to skip the station because the switches between the tracks aren't until after Nevins Street. The station platforms designs through are split between a colorful and seeming to be modern 1980s design with lots of red, including in the wall tiling, and odd-format red Hoyt Street-Fulton Mall signs for the western half of the station and traditional IRT subway station design for the eastern half of the platforms.

The 1980s red design, with round red painted columns, (although some are tiled over and round with red tiles), and brown wall tiles with red horizontal stripes are here this is also where full service fare control area is with turnstiles directly on each platform. The New Lots Avenue/Flatbush Avenue-bound platform contains the token booth. This leads up to a single streetstair up to the SE corner of Hoyt Street and Fulton Mall. From the Manhattan-bound platform, after unstaffed turnstiles, two streetstairs up to the NE and NW corners of Bridge Street and Fulton Mall.

The station contains two abandoned exits to former flagship stores along Fulton Street in Brooklyn's faded but main downtown shopping district. On the Manhattan-bound platform was once a short staircase up to a small fare control area that led into the basement of Martin's, a specialty clothing store that closed in 1979. On the New Lots/Flatbush Avenue-bound platform was a wider entrance that included an underpass to the Manhattan-bound platform, into the basement level of the Abraham & Straus Department Store (merged into Macy's in 1994, and still open today, albeit with the subway entrance long closed)

The eastern half of the station platforms have the old-fashioned more traditional IRT station design, with white tiled over columns, that say Hoyt in tile along them, Hoyt Street-Bridge Street mosaic name tablets in that traditional design, and a narrow gray mosaic line for the trim line. At the extreme eastern ends of the platforms are High Entrance/Exit turnstiles from the Brooklyn-bound platform leading up to a streetstair at the NE corner of Fulton Mall & Elm Place, and from the Manhattan-bound platform to the NW corner of Duffield Street & Fulton Mall, this exit has a second slabbed over streetstair that once led to the NE corner.

The Flatbush Avenue & New Lots Avenue-bound platform became wheelchair accessible on September 21, 2023. A new entrance was privately funded and by Macy's into the storefont of the department store. Here passenger enter a very white (compared to the rest of the station) entrance that leads through an archway to the new elevator (already broken when I visited 3 days after it opened) and a staircase down to a new fare control area with MVMs and turnstiles to the extreme back of Flatbush/New Lots Avenue-bound trains.
Photos 1-3: February 2, 2004; 4-23: June 18, 2009; 24: May 28, 2010; 25-27: December 28, 2010; 28: September 17, 2012; 29-46: September 24, 2023;

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A Hoyt Street-Bridge Street name tablet in the eastern portion of the station that has retained traditional design.

The eastern portion of the Hoyt Street Station with the standard white design and Hoyt written on the tiled over columns.

An older format Hoyt column sign (these have since been replaced by ones that also say Street).

A Hoyt Street station entrance from Hoyt Street to the Flatbush & New Lots-bound platform, this exit leads to the 1970s-80s portion of the station and the modern metal design of the entrance staircase reflects this.

An ornate no entry staircase into Hoyt Street.

A Hoyt Street Station entrance to the Manhattan & Bronx platform to the automated entrance at Duffield Street.

A Hoyt Street Station entrance surrounded by scaffolding.

A final view of a modern entrance to Hoyt Street.

This slightly-more traditional style entrance to Hoyt Street is unusually painted white.

A Manhattan-bound 3 train stops at Hoyt Street, in the brown-tiled portion of the station.

The turnstiles into the subway in the modern portion of the Manhattan-bound platform at Hoyt Street with its red tiled columns and brown walls with red stripes. There is no bench under the Off Hour Waiting Area signs.

A round Hoyt Street column sign on a round column.

Looking down the Manhattan-bound side platform at Hoyt Street with its brown walls with red horizontal stripes.

A very unusual Hoyt Street-Fulton Mall station text, it's white text on a red background that fits in with the grey background with brown stripes.

Still in the newer portion of the station at Hoyt Street, about to abruptly reach the older style part with a lower ceiling, tiled over instead of red columns, and white instead of brown walls.

The tall and narrow font Hoyt text on a platform column.

A modern sign on a tiled over column in the older designed portion of the station at Hoyt Street.

A dimly-lit old fashioned Hoyt Street-Bridge Street name tablet.

Looking down the Manhattan-bound platform at Hoyt Street towards the automated exit/entrance at the eastern end of the platform to Duffield Street and Fulton Street.

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