Metropolitan Avenue/Lorimer Street station
< Metropolitan Avenue
Metropolitan Avenue/ Lorimer Street | |||||||
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| New York City Subway station complex | |||||||
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| Address | Metropolitan Avenue between Lorimer Street & Union Avenue Brooklyn, New York | ||||||
| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||
| Locale | Williamsburg | ||||||
| Coordinates | 40°42′46″N 73°57′05″W / 40.712752°N 73.951464°W | ||||||
| Division | BMT/IND | ||||||
| Line | BMT Canarsie Line IND Crosstown Line | ||||||
| Services | G (all times) L (all times) | ||||||
| Transit | NYCT Bus: B24, B48, Q59 | ||||||
| Levels | 2 | ||||||
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| Opened | July 1, 1948 | ||||||
| Accessible | ADA-accessible (Transfer passageway between IND Crosstown Line platforms and BMT Canarsie Line platforms is not accessible; OMNY farecard readers must be used for free accessible transfer) | ||||||
| Traffic | |||||||
| 2023 | 3,903,034 14.5% | ||||||
| Rank | 73 out of 423 | ||||||
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The Metropolitan Avenue/Lorimer Street station is an underground New York City Subway station complex shared by the BMT Canarsie Line and the IND Crosstown Line. Located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, the complex is served by the G and L trains at all times.
The BMT Canarsie Line platforms, which are named Lorimer Street, are located above the IND Crosstown Line platforms, which are named Metropolitan Avenue. The Canarsie Line station opened in 1924, and the Crosstown Line station opened in 1937. Free transfers between the stations started in 1948.