Photos: New Jay St.-Metro Tech Station Links A/C/F to the R

The hotly-anticipated new Jay St.-Metro Tech station opened today, fixing the failure of transport design that senselessly hit many commuters with a double fare. Since 1933, the Jay St./Borough Hall and Lawrence St./MetroTech Stations have stood nary a block away, but transferring from the A/C/F to the R meant traipsing across Willoughby while grappling with the fact that the world sometimes doesn't make sense.

Finished early and under-budget, the new 175-foot underground passageway links the two stations, making the transfer free and warm, just in time for these unseasonably freezing temperatures. The $164 million project also overhauled the Jay St. station, adding elevators, disabled accessibility, and a whimsical insect-themed Arts for Transit mosaic.

Borough President Marty Markowitz shouted "Mazel Tov!" when he cut the ribbon at the station opening event this morning. He declared Jay St-Metro Tech a "station worthy of all Brooklyn and all Brooklynites," adding that it's "no secret Brooklyn is now a tourist destination by its own right." So we now have a station worthy of them, too. Now if only the MTA could ride this getting-stuff-done wave and overhaul ex-MTA headquarters at 370 Jay St, the crumbling eyesore right on top of the new station. Hey, we can dream.

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By Zoe Schlanger in News on December 10, 2010 3:24 PM

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INDsubway

"The hotly-anticipated new Jay St.-Metro Tech station opened today, fixing the failure of transport design that senselessly hit many commuters with a double fare."

I see someone did their research. Of course there was a double fare since the two stations belonged to two different subway companies until unification of all 3 in the 1950's. So it was never a failure.

Automocar

I would argue that having three competing subway companies was a failure of transport design.

JMH

Credit where credit is due: Nice work, MTA!

Doctor Memory

"Finished early and under-budget"

Hold me, I'm scared.

nicemarmot

Now if only they'd reopen the tunnel between 3rd and Lex at the EM6 station there. The sign on the wall still said "reopening 6/2010" the last time I checked.