Greenpoint Stations Getting 2-Year Renovation, MTA Says

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — The Greenpoint Avenue G train station is about to get a two-year, multi-million dollar makeover, transit officials announced.

The subway stop on Greenpoint and Manhattan avenues will get three new elevators, turnstiles and handrails during a 28-month renovation slated to begin in September, the MTA announced.

The $23.4 million project — part of the MTA’s Fast Forward Plan to increase subway accessibility to people who are mobility-impaired — was announced days after Comptroller Scott Stringer named Greenpoint as one of 62 New York City neighborhoods without a single station accessible to people with disabilities.

The Greenpoint Avenue station will remain open to the approximately 9,400 straphangers who use it every day, though the MTA warned them to expect some short-term outages as they install an elevator in the southern end of the station’s mezzanine and two others that provide access to the northbound and southbound tracks.

The station agent booth will also be adjusted to accommodate wheelchair users and new sidewalk pedestrian ramps will be installed, said the MTA.

The project will be funded through the MTA’s $5 billion accessibility program that proposes to make about 180 subway stations accessible in the next 10 years.

Photo courtesy of GoogleMaps/July 2016