page_title: Nostrand Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line)
section_title: Exits
hierarchical_section_title: Nostrand Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line) / Station layout / Exits
caption_attribution_description: Nostrand Ave Station, Brooklyn
context_page_description: Nostrand Avenue is a two-level express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It is served by the A train at all times and the C train at all times except late nights.
  The station was planned as part of the construction of the Independent Subway System's Fulton Street Line. Construction of the station began around 1929, and it was opened to service on April 9, 1936. Several of the station's entrances were closed in the late 20th century due to crime. In the 2010s and 2020s, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans to make the station ADA-accessible and to reopen closed exits.
  Nostrand Avenue has four tracks and four side platforms, with two platform levels. Express trains stop on the upper level while local trains stop on the lower level. This is because, in the original design for the station, the Nostrand Avenue station was slated to be a local station with only two platforms, and the current upper level was intended to be a mezzanine.
context_section_description: Each platform has its own exits to the corners of Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street, which are 15 feet (4.6 m) long and 6 feet (1.8 m) wide. The following exits each contain one staircase:
  The station has a full-time booth in the Nostrand Avenue fare control area on the northbound platform, and used to have a part-time booth at the Nostrand Avenue fare control area on the southbound platform.
  Both upper-level platforms have a passage at their railroad north (geographical west) ends to a large mezzanine with a crossover. Two stairs from this mezzanine lead to either eastern corner of Bedford Avenue and Fulton Street, some 1,000 feet (300 m) west of the Nostrand Avenue entrances. The entrances from Bedford Avenue were closed prior to the 1980s due to increasing crime, but the crossover and passages were retained until 1992, when high crime rates in the subway system prompted the MTA to close the crossover as well. In February 2020, the MTA announced the reopening of the mezzanine, entrances, and accompanying passages, with an anticipated opening date of late 2020.
  The Manhattan-bound upper level also has a closed fare control area to both northern corners of Arlington Place and Fulton Street. The Arlington Place entrance is located behind a tiled wall with a door.
caption: View of station name tablets
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