Fulton Street station (IND Crosstown Line)

This station opened on July 1, 1937, when the entire Crosstown Line was completed between Nassau Avenue and its connection to the IND Culver Line. On this date, the GG was extended in both directions to Smith–Ninth Streets and Forest Hills–71st Avenue.[2]

South Portland Avenue exit staircase on the northbound platform

Ground	Street level	Entrances/exits
Mezzanine		Station agent, fare control, MetroCard machines
Basement 2	Side platform
	Northbound	← toward Court Square (Clinton–Washington Avenues)
	Southbound	→ toward Church Avenue (Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets) →
	Side platform
	Underpass	Connection between platforms

Mosaic name tablet and directional sign

This underground station has two tracks and two side platforms.[4] The G stops at the station at all times.[5] The station is between Clinton–Washington Avenues to the north and Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets to the south.[6]

Both platforms have a lime green trim line with a dark green border and mosaic name tablets reading "FULTON ST." in white sans-serif font on a dark green background and lime green border. Small black "FULTON" tile captions in white lettering run below the trim line at regular intervals and directional signs in the same style are below some of the name tablets. The tiles were part of a color-coded tile system used throughout the IND.[7] The tile colors were designed to facilitate navigation for travelers going away from Lower Manhattan. Because the Crosstown Line does not merge into a line that enters Manhattan at either end, all stations on the line had green tiles.[8][9] Blue I-beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black station name plate in white lettering.

The station is very close to the Crosstown Line's junction with the IND Fulton Street Line just west of Lafayette Avenue, although the two stations do not have an in-system transfer. Riders on Manhattan-bound A and C trains can catch a glimpse of this station's platforms as well as the northbound track of the Crosstown Line through the right-side windows a few seconds after leaving Lafayette Avenue. There is an employee-only connection between the two stations via the tunnels.

A proposed transfer to the busy Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center complex was rejected by the MTA due to the long walking distance between the two stations.[10][11]

Exits

Panoramic view of the station

The station's full-time fare control area is at the extreme south (geographical west) end of the Church Avenue-bound platform. A bank of turnstiles at platform level leads to a token booth and one staircase going up to the northeast corner of Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street. A cross-under here connects to the Queens-bound platform.[4]

This station has a mezzanine above the platforms and tracks near the north end. However, most of it has been converted to employee-use only and the staircases leading up to it from the platforms are gated shut or sealed off.[4] At the extreme north (geographical east) end of the station, a single open staircase from each platform goes up to a single full height turnstile before a staircase goes up to either western corner of South Portland and Lafayette Avenues, the northwestern one for the Church Avenue-bound platform and the southwestern one for the Queens-bound platform.[4][12] These exits were closed in the mid-1980s due to concerns over maintenance expense and potential crime, but the southwestern corner entrance (for northbound trains) was reopened in July 2005 following community pressure,[13] while the northwestern corner entrance (for southbound trains) was reopened some time between January and June 2009.[14]

• Barclays Center[12]
• Brooklyn Academy of Music[12]
• Brooklyn Technical High School[12]
• Fort Greene Park[12]
• Irondale Center[12]
• Mark Morris Dance Center[12]
• MoCADA[12]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fulton Street (IND Crosstown Line).

• nycsubway.org – IND Crosstown: Fulton Street
• Station Reporter — G Train
• The Subway Nut — Fulton Street Pictures
• Fulton Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• South Portland Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View