Hoyt Street (IRT Eastern Parkway Line)

Hoyt Street
New York City Subway rapid transit station
300px Southbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Hoyt Street & Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Downtown Brooklyn
Coordinates
Division	A (IRT)
Line	IRT Eastern Parkway Line
Services	2  (all times)       3  (all except late nights)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: B25, B26, B38, B52
Structure	Underground
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	May 1, 1908 (1908-05-01)
Former/other names	Hoyt Street – Fulton Mall Hoyt Street – Bridge Street
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	2,181,465  7.3%
Rank	225 out of 421
Station succession
Next north	Borough Hall: 2  3
Next south	Nevins Street: 2  3
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times except late nights Stops all times

Hoyt Street is a local station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway in Downtown Brooklyn, served by the 2 train at all times and 3 train at all times except late nights.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
P Platform Level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound local	← toward Wakefield – 241st Street (Borough Hall) ← toward Harlem – 148th Street (Borough Hall)
	Northbound express	← do not stop here
	Southbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ toward Brooklyn College – Flatbush Avenue (Nevins Street) → → toward New Lots Avenue (Nevins Street) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

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Northbound entrance

South of Borough Hall, the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and the Brooklyn Branch of the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line join to form the four-track IRT Eastern Parkway Line.

Hoyt Street is the northernmost four-track station on this line. It is located under the intersection of Fulton Street, Hoyt Street, and Bridge Street. It has two side platforms serving only the local tracks. Trains from the Clark Street Tunnel run on the local tracks and those from the Joralemon Street Tunnel run on the express tracks. The original construction included only the Joralemon Street Tunnel with crossover switches north of Hoyt Street. These switches have been removed and new ones were installed between Nevins Street and Atlantic Avenue, so trains from the Joralemon Street Tunnel cannot stop at this station at all.

Southbound (east Brooklyn-bound) trains use track E1 while northbound (Manhattan-bound) trains use track E4. Southbound and northbound express trains use tracks E2 and E3, respectively. Track numbers and letters are used for chaining purposes and are rarely, if ever, used by passengers.

The station has been extensively renovated; old signs reading "Hoyt Street – Bridge Street" remain on the I-beams separating the local and express tracks. At the north end of the southbound platform is a closed crossunder that included an entrance to Macy's; the south end of the northbound platform includes a passageway that is used by police. One of the original ceramic cartouches from the station is now on display at the New York Transit Museum.

Further reading

• Lee Stokey. Subway Ceramics : A History and Iconography. 1994. ISBN 978-0-9635486-1-0

External links

• nycsubway.org—nycsubway.org Brooklyn IRT: Hoyt Street
• Station Reporter — 2 Train
• Station Reporter — 3 Train
• Brooklyn IRT Contract 2 map (includes current and former track configurations, and provisions for future connections)
• The Subway Nut — Hoyt Street – Fulton Mall Pictures
• Bridge Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Hoyt Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Duffield Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Elm Place entrance from Google Maps Street View