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The Lorimer Street station is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Lorimer Street and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction and the M train at all times except late nights. The Z train skips this station when it operates.
The Lorimer Street station (announced as Metropolitan Avenue-Lorimer Street station) on the BMT Canarsie Line has two tracks and two side platforms. It opened on June 30, 1924, as part of the initial segment of the underground Canarsie Line, a product of the Dual Contracts, stretching from Sixth Avenue in Manhattan to Montrose Avenue. [12]
North of New Lots Avenue, the line served as part of the New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Railway; the B&RB owned the section of that line between Jefferson Street and East New York, though this section was solely operated by the NYB&MB. [8] The line was single-tracked until 1894. [9]
The BMT Jamaica Line, also known as the Broadway - Brooklyn Line, is an elevated rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn and Queens.It runs from the Williamsburg Bridge southeast over Broadway to East New York, Brooklyn, and then east over Fulton Street and Jamaica Avenue to Jamaica, Queens.
Plans for a crosstown subway line were floated as early as 1912. [4] [5] In 1923, a plan for such a line, to be operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) from the Queensboro Bridge under Jackson Avenue, Manhattan Avenue, Roebling Street, Bedford Avenue, and Hancock Street to Franklin Avenue at the north end of the BMT Franklin Avenue Line, [6] was adopted by the city. [7]
Jamaica – Van Wyck on the IND Archer Avenue Line (E train) It is also served by the following bus routes: The Q54 bus runs along most of the avenue, between Grand Street and either 131st Street (Williamsburg) or 132nd Street (Jamaica). It doesn’t pass through St. John’s Cemetery. The Q59 runs between Roebling Street and Union Avenue.
Exit/entrance, stairs to East New York LIRR station After the remaining portion of the Fulton Street el was removed in 1956, the Canarsie line continued to use the westernmost track and platform southbound, and the second track from the east and platform (over Snediker Avenue) northbound.
Each platform has one same-level fare control area towards the west end (railroad north).Each one has a turnstile bank and two street stairs. The ones on the Manhattan-bound side go up to either northern corners of Graham and Metropolitan Avenues, while the ones on the Canarsie-bound side go up to either southern corners.