Nassau Avenue station

New York City Subway station in Brooklyn

New York City councilmember Lincoln Restler founded a volunteer group, the Friends of MTA Station Group, in early 2023 to advocate for improvements to the Nassau Avenue station and four other subway stations in Brooklyn.

This underground station has two tracks and two side platforms. The G stops at the station at all times. The station is between Greenpoint Avenue to the north and Metropolitan Avenue to the south. Both platforms have a green trim line with a black border and mosaic name tablets reading "NASSAU AVE." in white sans serif lettering on a black background and green border. Small "NASSAU" tile captions in white lettering on a black background run directly below the trim line and directional signs in the same style are below some of the name tablets. The tiles were part of a color coded tile system used throughout the IND. The tile colors were designed to facilitate navigation for travelers going away from Lower Manhattan. Because the Crosstown Line does not merge into a line that enters Manhattan at either end, all stations on the line had green tiles. Green I beam columns run along both platforms at regular intervals with alternating ones having the standard black name plate in white lettering. South of the station, the line shifts from Manhattan Avenue onto Union Avenue, running diagonally under McCarren Park. G trains, which are about half the length of the 600 feet (183 m) platform, stop near the south end of the station. Both platforms have an unstaffed platform level fare control at their north end, with no crossover. On the Church Avenue bound side, one exit only turnstile and one High Entry/Exit Turnstile lead to a single staircase going up to the northwest corner of Norman and Manhattan Avenues. On the Queens bound side, a single full height turnstile leads to a staircase going up to the northeast corner of the same intersection.