New Yorkers using the Clark Streen subway station in Brooklyn Heights will need to be very patient for at least four months.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority reported Monday that it will close the station from November 3 until spring 2022 to replace several old elevators, which do not have stairs for passengers to access the platform below.
Elevators currently go all the way to the mezzanine level, but passengers must use a set of stairs to reach the platforms. Its replacement will not include a connection that allows wheelchair passengers to access the platform, MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan said Sunday.
Clark Street, which serves lines 2 and 3, logged approximately 5,500 entries per day via MetroCard before the pandemic, but only 1,700 per day last year, MTA data shows.
The work to replace the elevators is included in a larger $ 61 million project that also includes the replacement of elevators at the Upper East Side 63rd Street station on the F and Q lines and the Court Street station on the R line.
“The plan to replace the three elevators on Clark Street simultaneously reduces construction time and minimizes the impact this disruption will have on our passengers,” said Acting MTA President Janno Lieber.
Traffic officials notified the disruption on Friday, telling affected passengers to use nearby Borough Hall or High Street stations instead. The lines 2 and 3 tracks are fully accessible at Borough Hall, but only the Manhattan-bound platforms on the station lines 4 and 5 are accessible to wheelchair users.
High Street has no ramps or elevators on its platform.
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