Broadway Junction station

 Broadway Junction
 "A" train"C" train"J" train"L" train"Z" train
New York City Subway station complex
The elevated part of the complex
Station statistics
AddressVan Sinderen Avenue & Fulton Street
Brooklyn, New York
BoroughBrooklyn
LocaleEast New York, Cypress Hills, Ocean Hill
Coordinates40°40′44.11″N 73°54′12.43″W / 40.6789194°N 73.9034528°W / 40.6789194; -73.9034528
DivisionB (BMT/IND)[1]
LineBMT Canarsie Line
IND Fulton Street Line
BMT Jamaica Line
Services   A all times (all times)
   C all except late nights (all except late nights)​
   J all times (all times)​
   L all times (all times)​
   Z rush hours, peak direction (rush hours, peak direction)
Transit
Levels3
Other information
Accessiblenot ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Traffic
20231,647,748[2]Increase 14%
Rank196 out of 423[2]
Location
Broadway Junction station is located in New York City Subway
Broadway Junction station
Broadway Junction station is located in New York City
Broadway Junction station
Broadway Junction station is located in New York
Broadway Junction station
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Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops all times Stops all times

The Broadway Junction station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the elevated BMT Canarsie Line and BMT Jamaica Line, and the underground IND Fulton Street Line. It was also served by trains of the Fulton Street Elevated until that line closed in 1956. It is located roughly at the intersection of Broadway, Fulton Street and Van Sinderen Avenue at the border of Bedford–Stuyvesant and East New York, Brooklyn. The complex is served by the A, J, and L trains at all times; the C train at all times except late nights; and the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction only.

The station is adjacent to the East New York Yard and a complex track junction between the tracks leading to the yard, the Canarsie Line, and the Jamaica Line. The structure of the elevated station still contains the ironwork for the trackways used by the old Fulton Elevated. The station has a single exit and entrance through a fare control building located at the eastern end of the Fulton Street Line station. There is evidence of closed exits from the Jamaica Line platforms.

The station opened as Manhattan Junction as part of the BMT Lexington Avenue Line in 1885. In 1900, an elevated connection was made with the Fulton Street Elevated, resulting in a change in service patterns. Lexington Avenue and Fulton Street trains were through-routed, going around the East New York Loop, with service to Cypress Hills requiring a transfer. The station started to be used by service to Canarsie in 1906. In 1919, the Manhattan Junction station was replaced by the current station which was then known as Eastern Parkway. The modern-day Canarsie Line platforms, known as Broadway Junction, opened in 1928 when that line was connected to the 14th Street–Eastern District Line. The Independent Subway System's Fulton Street Line was extended to Broadway–East New York in 1946, and the three stations were combined as one station complex on July 1, 1948. The names of the stations in the complex were conformed to Broadway Junction in 2003.

Although Broadway Junction ranked 166th in the system for passenger entries in 2016, with 3,085,401 total entries,[3] it is Brooklyn's third-busiest station in terms of passenger activity. It sees 100,000 passengers per day as of 2017, the vast majority of whom use it to make transfers. In 2017, the New York City Economic Development Corporation started studying options to rezone the surrounding area as a transit hub.[4]

  1. ^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  3. ^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2018–2023)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  4. ^ Hu, Winnie. "A Tired Brooklyn Transit Hub Is Finally Getting Attention; New York City officials aim to transform Broadway Junction from a pass-through to a destination stop with offices, stores, restaurants and other amenities." Archived November 27, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, November 26, 2017. Accessed November 27, 2017. "Currently, about 100,000 riders pass through Broadway Junction every weekday, making it the third busiest station in Brooklyn, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Most riders are transferring between the various lines."