A New Face for Historic Transit Hub in Brooklyn Brooklyn's historic transit hub at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues where MTA Long Island Rail Road customers can transfer for connections with 10 subway lines has a new, $108 million home starting today with the opening of the Atlantic Terminal Pavilion. The three-story limestone, granite and glass structure features a soaring atrium that allows natural light to reach the below ground LIRR concourse and subway station. Two sweeping staircases provide direct access from the street to the concourse below. The Terminal building is linked internally to an office building and retail complex. While the interior of the new entry pavilion provides customers with open spaces and an impressive overlook of the terminal, the arced vessel shaped exterior restores a civic presence to the Flatbush Avenue site, according to Brooklyn native John di Domenico, the architect of di Domenico & Partners, LLP who led the design of the Entry Pavilion. The renewed facility serves approximately 25500 LIRR customers each day as well as approximately 31650 NYC Transit subway customers. LIRR customers can transfer to the 2,3,4,5, B, D, M, N, Q & R lines as well as five bus routes. Work on the project, begun in 2002, was done in two phases in order to coordinate improvements with MTA New York City Transit work on their subway facilities and a private developer, Forest City Ratner. The new Pavilion includes a new ticket office, public rest rooms, grand ...
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