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| Address | Broadway & Union Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11206 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Williamsburg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°42′20″N 73°57′01″W / 40.705433°N 73.950219°WCoordinates: 40°42′20″N 73°57′01″W / 40.705433°N 73.950219°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (IND) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | IND Crosstown Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | G  (all times) |
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| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | July 1, 1937 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2008) | 1.033 million[1][2] ▲ 2.58% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 348 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Metropolitan Avenue: G |
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| Next south | Flushing Avenue: G |
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Broadway is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The mezzanine has a crossover at the south end. Vent chambers are present.
The Lorimer Street and Hewes Street stations of the BMT Jamaica Line lie to the east and west, respectively, of the Broadway station. No free transfers exist to either of these stations.
One of the icon tiles on the uptown platform had the station name incorrectly spelled as "Brodaway", until the Daily News made a story about it.[3][4] In February 2009, the two wrong letters were covered with the correct ones printed on stickers, but as of December 2009, the stickers have been removed.
South Fourth Street provisional platforms
The north end of the Broadway station has been sealed up. It currently holds offices, storage, and once led to the South 4th Street station shell built as part of a planned expansion of the Independent Subway System.[5]
The South 4th Street station shell was built above the level of the Broadway station. The South 4th Street station was supposed to be the main transfer point from the proposed Worth Street and Houston Street lines coming from Manhattan, and the line would have split into two major trunk lines going east as part of a planned system expansion. One line would have gone towards the proposed Utica Avenue Line, and the other line towards the Myrtle Avenue – Central Avenue line to the Rockaways.
At the north end of the northbound platform, there is a door with a gate in front of it that is locked, behind the gated door there is an open space and a ramp that would have been a stairway up to one of the unused platforms of the South 4th Street station shell. You can't see it from the platform, once the door is locked or closed. North of the southbound platform, if you look closely into the tunnel from the north end of the opposite platform, there is a hole through the chain link fence door. A look through the chain link fence door would reveal an unused large open area, which was supposed to be the mezzanine level for the South 4th Street station shell. That would also get you in to an unused underpass to the shell station. There is also another gated door on the north end of the southbound platform that opens to that same large open space. If you look up you should see several places where stairs to the unused platforms would have gone. On the northern end of the station, there are openings in the ceiling above the platforms. These openings in the ceiling is part of the South 4th Street station construction. The station is a semi-complete shell, all platforms and trackbeds in place, but no rails, no tiles, no stairs. There's no lights inside of the station shell. The station shell is pitch dark. The South Fourth Street station shell has four island platforms and six trackways.
References
- ^ "2008 Subway Ridership". New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. http://www.mta.info/nyct/facts/ridership/ridership_sub.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
- ^ "2007 Ridership by Subway Station". New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. http://www.mta.info/nyct/facts/ridership/ridership_sub_07.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
- ^ Belenkaya, Veronika; Donohue, Pete (2009-02-10). "MTA spellers way off-off Broadway in Brooklyn". Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/02/09/2009-02-09_mta_spellers_way_offoff_broadway_in_broo.html. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- ^ "Subway Tile Sign Has Old Misspelling". NY1. 2009-02-10. http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/transit/93735/subway-tile-sign-has-old-misspelling/Default.aspx. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
- ^ Brennan, Joseph. ""IND Second System unfinished stations"". Abandoned Stations. http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/indsecsys.html. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
External links
- nycsubway.org — IND Crosstown: Broadway
- Station Reporter — G Train
- Hopetunnel.org — [1]
- Abandoned Stations — IND Second System unfinished stations
- The Subway Nut — Broadway Pictures
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