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Broadway (IND Crosstown Line)
Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP Broadway  | |||||||
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New York City Subway station | |||||||
 Queens bound platform | |||||||
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| Address | Broadway & Union Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11206 | ||||||
| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||
| Locale | Williamsburg | ||||||
| Coordinates | 40°42′20″N 73°57′01″W / 40.705433°N 73.950219°W / 40.705433; -73.950219Coordinates: 40°42′20″N 73°57′01″W / 40.705433°N 73.950219°W / 40.705433; -73.950219 | ||||||
| Division | B (IND) | ||||||
| Line | IND Crosstown Line | ||||||
| Services | G  (all times) | ||||||
| Transit connections |  NYCT Bus: B46, B60 | ||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||
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| Opened | July 1, 1937 (1937-07-01)[1] | ||||||
| Station code | 286[2] | ||||||
| Wireless service |  [3] | ||||||
| Traffic | |||||||
| Passengers (2017) | 1,385,797[4]  0.8% | ||||||
| Rank | 312 out of 425 | ||||||
| Station succession | |||||||
| Next north | Metropolitan Avenue: G | ||||||
| Next south | Flushing Avenue: G | ||||||
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Broadway is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Broadway and Union Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, it is served at all times by the G train.
Contents
1 History
2 Station layout
2.1 Exits
2.2 Proposed MetroCard transfer
3 Unfinished station
4 References
5 External links
History
This opened on July 1, 1937, as part of the extension of the Crosstown Line from Nassau Avenue to Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets.[1]
Station layout
G | Street level | Entrances/exits |
M | Mezzanine | To entrances/exits, station agent, MetroCard machines |
P Platform level | Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Northbound | ← toward Court Square (Metropolitan Avenue) | |
Southbound | → toward Church Avenue (Flushing Avenue) → | |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
This underground station has two tracks and two side platforms.[5] The platforms have a green trim line on a black border and name tablets reading "BROADWAY" in white sans serif lettering on a black background and green border. The i-beam columns in the entire station are dark blue with alternating ones on the platforms having the standard black station name plate in white lettering.
Small station signs underneath the trim line read "BROADWAY" in white lettering on a black background. One of the icon tiles on the northbound platform is incorrectly spelled as "BRODAWAY"; this mistake may have been part of the station's original tilework.[6][7][8][9] After the Daily News and several other news outlets reported on the misspelling in February 2009,[6][7][8] the two wrong letters were covered with the correct ones printed on stickers, but as of December 2009, the stickers have been removed. In December 2011, the MTA stated the tiles would remain.[8][9]
Exits
The station has a small mezzanine above the platforms and tracks at the south end, allowing a free transfer between directions. Two staircases from each platform go up to the mezzanine.[5] The mezzanine previously had a northern half that had exits to both northern corners of Johnson Avenue and Union Avenue,[10] and the intersection of Union Avenue, South 5th Street, and Montrose Avenue (the north end of the station). It is now closed to the public, and parts of it currently hold offices while the rest of the mezzanine is used for storage space.[11][10]
A turnstile bank provides entrance/exit from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and four street stairs, one to the southwest corner of Broadway and Heyward Street, and the remaining three to the southwestern, southeastern, and northeastern corners of Broadway and Union Avenue;[12] however, the staircase to the southwestern corner was closed many years back.[13]
Proposed MetroCard transfer
A staircase at the southeast corner of Union Avenue and Broadway with the BMT Jamaica Line in the background.
The BMT Jamaica Line lies directly above the staircases to this station; Lorimer Street and Hewes Street are located to the east and west of the entrances, respectively with Lorimer Street being slightly closer to the station. However, there is no permanent free transfer between either of those stations and this one, in spite of requests from riders and transit advocacy groups.[14][15][16]
Despite the lack of a free transfer, temporary free transfers have been offered during construction or service disruptions,[14] most recently from July 25, 2014 to September 2, 2014 between Lorimer Street and this station, due to the closure of the IND Crosstown Line under the Newtown Creek for tunnel repairs.[14][17][18] A free MetroCard transfer between Broadway and Lorimer Street stations will also be provided during the 14th Street Tunnel shutdown from April 2019 to June 2020.[19] A temporary free MetroCard transfer to and from the Hewes Street station would also be made available.[20]
Unfinished station
"Broadway" mosaic
The north end of the Broadway station has been blocked by false walls and is used as storage. This northern third of the platform level area consists of passages that would have served as transfers to an unfinished station on a level directly above the Crosstown Line tracks (provisionally called South Fourth Street or Union Avenue). The unfinished station was built as part of a planned expansion of the Independent Subway System.[10][21][22]
The station is a semi-complete shell with four island platforms and six track beds, having the same layout as Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station. No rails, tiles, lights, or stairs were built.[23] The unfinished station, which is only about as long as Union Avenue is wide, was designed to be the main transfer point from both a line running under Worth Street and a line running under Houston Street coming from Manhattan with the Crosstown Line. These lines would have become two major trunk lines going east; one would have run under Utica Avenue, and the other would have run towards the Rockaways along Myrtle Avenue and Central Avenue Line.[10][21][24]
The now-closed northern mezzanine has a passageway to an upper level mezzanine directly above the unfinished station. This mezzanine has roughed-in street stairs leading to the northern corners of the intersection of South 4th Street and Meserole Street.[10] However, it has no stairs leading to the unfinished station itself.
In 2010, dozens of street artists created murals on the walls of the unfinished station over the course of 18 months, collectively called "the Underbelly Project", without clearance from the MTA. Afterwards, the MTA removed access to the transfer passage on the northbound platform at Broadway and replaced fencing at the transfer passage on the southbound platform with cinderblock walls.[25][26]
References
^ ab "New Crosstown Subway Line Is Opened". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. July 1, 1937. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
^ "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
^ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
^ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2012–2017". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
^ ab "Review of the G Line: Appendices" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 10, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
^ ab Belenkaya, Veronika; Donohue, Pete (February 10, 2009). "MTA spellers way off-off Broadway in Brooklyn". Daily News. Retrieved June 14, 2009.
^ ab "Subway Tile Sign Has Old Misspelling". NY1. February 10, 2009. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved June 14, 2009.
^ abc Dunlap, David W. (December 29, 2011). "They Say the Noen Lights Are Bright on Brodaway". The New York Times. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
^ ab Macleod, Dan (January 6, 2012). "It's 'Brodaway' — get used to it!". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
^ abcde Raskin, Joseph B. (November 1, 2013), The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System, Fordham University Press, ISBN 978-0-8232-5369-2
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5a9Upk2TBs
^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Williamsburg & Bedford-Stuyvesant" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2015.
^ Harshbarger, Rebecca (November 1, 2015). "NYC subway station entrances closed despite ridership spike: over one in four". AM New York. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
^ abc "Review of the G Line" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 10, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
^ Hoffman, Meredith (December 31, 2012). "G Train Riders to Renew Push for Improved Service With New Year". Williamsburg, Brooklyn: DNAinfo.com. Archived from the original on August 29, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
^ Miller, Shane (July 1, 2004). "Let Us Take a Free Swipe". Greenpoint Star. Archived from the original on February 14, 2005. Retrieved January 17, 2007.
^ "Free transfer set to expire between G train and J/M lines in Brooklyn". New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV.
^ Donohue, Pete (May 14, 2014). "MTA will allow free transfers for G train riders to J or M trains at Lorimer St. stop during work on Greenpoint Tube this summer". NY Daily News. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
^ Hogan, Gwynne; Tcholakian, Danielle (July 25, 2016). "The L Train Shutdown: Here's How to Commute Between Brooklyn and Manhattan". DNAinfo New York. Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
^ New York City Transit Authority (July 2018). "MTA New York City Transit Canarsie Tunnel Project Supplemental Environmental Assessment and Section 4(f) Review: Final Report" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. p. 16. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
^ ab Roger P. Roess; Gene Sansone (August 23, 2012). The Wheels That Drove New York: A History of the New York City Transit System. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 416-417. ISBN 978-3-642-30484-2.
^ Brennan, Joseph. "IND Second System unfinished stations". Abandoned Stations. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20110720180924/http://ltvsquad.com/Missions/Tunnels/Subways/2ndSys2/
^ Project for Expanded Rapid Transit Facilities, New York City Transit System, dated July 5, 1939
^ Rees, Jasper (October 31, 2010). "'Underbelly Project' Hidden Art Show in Abandoned Subway Station". The New York Times.
^ Grynbaum, Michael M. (November 11, 2010). "Underbelly Project Visitors at Ghost Subway Station Risk Arrest". The New York Times.
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Broadway (IND Crosstown Line). |
- nycsubway.org – IND Crosstown: Broadway
- Station Reporter — G Train
- Hopetunnel.org — South 4th Street station shell
- Abandoned Stations — IND Second System unfinished stations
- The Subway Nut — Broadway Pictures
- Broadway entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Platforms from Google Maps Street View
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