SEE: New Elevators Unveiled At Brooklyn Museum Subway Station

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A long-awaited project to make the subway station at the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Gardens accessible has finished, the MTA announced.

Transit officials and leaders from the two cultural institutions unveiled the improvements — including a new elevator — to the Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum subway stop on Friday.

The upgrades, which were first announced in 2018, make the busy 2 and 3 train station directly outside the two Brooklyn destinations fully accessible for those with disabilities. About 4,000 riders used the Brooklyn Museum station each day before the coronavirus pandemic, officials said.

"You just made the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Brooklyn Museum the most accessible cultural institutions in all of New York City," Museum President Anne Pasternak told the crowd. "We are so profoundly grateful for that extraordinary gift."

The station upgrades include the new elevator, expanded mezzanines and rebuilt stairways.

It brings the number of accessible stations in Brooklyn near 30 as the MTA works toward its goal of ensuring straphangers do not have to travel further than two stops to reach an accessible station.

Brooklyn has highest number of people with disabilities of any borough in New York City, officials said Friday.

The completed Prospect Heights project comes just a few days after transit officials announced the next round of accessibility upgrades, which will include three stations in Brooklyn.

Among them will be the Seventh Avenue/Ninth Street stop in Park Slope, where residents have long asked for an elevator given its vicinity to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and distance from other accessible stations in the system.