Botanic Garden/Franklin Avenue Complex

Franklin Avenue (on Fulton Street at Franklin Avenue) opened on 4/9/1936 and has four tracks and two wall platforms with a crossover at the south end connecting to the Franklin Shuttle. A closed exit is at the north end of the southbound platform and leads to Classon Avenue and had a booth. Evidence exists in the tile on the northbound platform that an exit was there too but based on al old neighborhood map had no street exit leading to a theory of a closed crossunder. The booth is relocated to street level southbound with another booth on the northbound platform. The southbound platform had a booth which was closed when the new street level booth was added.  Thanks to the Shuttle rebuild, this station now has full ADA to all platforms with one elevator for each side and another elevator to the Shuttle platform.

Botanic Garden (mid-block between Franklin and Classon Aves, on south side of Eastern Parkway):  2 tracks on 2 side platforms, a free transfer to the IRT is now made possible via. a newly constructed passageway from the Franklin Ave-bound platform, to both IRT platforms.  None of the station's elements are ADA accessible, including the transfer passageway, a poor choice not to offer accessibility to disabled customers.  The station name tablet is a mix of IND square style with BMT lettering.  The tablets are green background with white letters and a trio of different colored borders, yellow, burgundy and black.  The same colors are on a tile band below the name tablets, and another on the top of the station wall, with diamonds on top (not BMT style though.).   There is a closed south end, beyond the current station platform; there was a P/T stationhouse, ghost booth and exit to President Street.  This exit was closed in the 1970's but the old platform fell into disrepair, and the outdoor portion of this station was closed.  The indoor portion of old Botanic Garden station was very, very dark.  Bright lights and an improved mezzanine level is now the staple of the "new" shuttle, as well as the platform being shortened. Despite the short platform, you can see traces of where the old platform once stood by standing at the south end of the current platform. A route selector punch box is on the Prospect Park-bound side. Artwork:  "IL7/Square" by Millie Burns (1999), is similar to the artwork at Park Place station, that it contains sculptured leaves embedded onto the wrought iron fenced railings. This artwork can be seen at street level and around the only station entrance.