Broadway Junction station
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.
Broadway Junction 
Van Sinderen Avenue & Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY
3
not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
1,647,748[2] 
14%
196 out of 423[2]
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]
Broadway Junction
L 
(all times)
1 island platform
1 side platform (southbound only)
2
July 14, 1928
not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Yes
3
June 14, 1885[12]
August 5, 1919 (current elevated station)
not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Yes
Manhattan Junction (1885–1919)
Eastern Parkway (1919–2003)
The bridge between the Jamaica platforms and Fulton Street subway
A closed staircase to the former station house at Eastern Parkway
The Broadway Junction station is an express station on the BMT Jamaica Line that has three tracks and two island platforms.[8]: 50 The J train stops here at all times and the Z train stops here during rush hours in the peak direction only. The station is between Chauncey Street to the west (railroad south) and Alabama Avenue to the east (railroad north).[54] The middle express track is not used by regular service. At each end of the station there are track connections to the East New York Yard. Trains that run to or from that yard can terminate or begin at this station.[53]: 32, 64
The station was originally called Eastern Parkway station, named for its original exit on the extreme west end of the platforms. This entrance is now closed, though the street stairs and station house are still present, now being used as employee space. A second fare control area, a mezzanine, at Conway Street in the middle of the platforms was also closed, and was removed in the 2000s as part of the station's renovation.[8]: 50 [38][60]: 4 The ironwork for the old Fulton Elevated trackways can be seen under this portion of the complex from the platforms. Two staircases from each platform lead to the upper mezzanine of the complex.[8]: 50 The mezzanine is above the platforms and connects to the Canarsie Line and to the exit at street level via two long escalators. At street level, there is a transfer to the underground IND Fulton Street Line and the fare control area.[8]: 39–40
As part of the 2015–2019 Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Capital Program, station capacity enhancements were made at the station. The project involved the building of two additional staircases from each platform to the mezzanine to reduce platform congestion. Design work started in February 2017, and was finished in August 2017. The project was being bid on as of January 2018, work began in July 2018, and the new staircases were finished around October 2018.[42]
Broadway Junction
Underground
4
December 30, 1946
not ADA-accessible; accessibility planned
Cross-platform wheelchair transfer available
Yes
Broadway – East New York (1946–2003)
The southbound platform
C train stop sign in front of a staircase to the station house
The Broadway Junction station on the IND Fulton Street Line, formerly called Broadway–East New York station,[8]: 14 [61][27] is a standard express station with four tracks and two island platforms.[8]: 48 [53]: 32 The A train stops here at all times, using the express tracks during daytime hours and the local tracks during late night hours; the C train stops here at all times except late nights, using the local tracks. The next stop to the west (railroad north) is Rockaway Avenue for local trains and Utica Avenue for express trains; the next stop to the east (railroad south) is Liberty Avenue for local trains and Euclid Avenue for express trains.[54]
The land for the station was acquired by the city in 1938, and in order to construct the station and other utilities, the land had to be cleared of buildings.[8]: 49 Some of the land was given to the New York City Parks Department in 1945 for the construction of Callahan-Kelly Playground, which was named after two local soldiers who died during World War I.[51] The station was nearly complete when the United States' entrance into World War II in 1941 halted construction due to material shortages.[8]: 14 [25][26] Work resumed following the war to install the necessary signals, tracks and complete the escalators to the BMT platforms.[26][27] The contract for the 43-foot (13 m) escalator was awarded on November 7, 1945, to the Otis Elevator Company.[27] The station opened on December 30, 1946,[25][61][62] while the escalator was completed on July 1, 1948, after supply delays.[27][28]: 16, 38 In the early 1950s, the platforms were extended to 660 feet (200 m) to accommodate 11-car trains.[63][64][65]
The station's tile band is unique in that it incorporates two types of tile–gloss and matte–in contrasting shades of cobalt blue (gloss border) and blueberry (matte center). When the station was renamed in 2003,[39] the "EAST NY" tiles on the wall were removed[66] and replaced by tiles reading "JUNCTION", in a very closely matching IND font.[67] There is an active control tower just past the head end of the Queens-bound platform.[68]
East of the station, the tunnel widens on both sides to accommodate an additional trackway diverging from the local tracks. These bellmouths, one of which has an emergency exit, were built for a proposed extension along the BMT Jamaica Line, or for a proposed Jamaica Avenue Subway.[69] They were not a provision for the IND Second System, as were similar structures on other IND lines, but rather date from an earlier plan for the IND Fulton Street Line, which would have connected the IND tracks west of the station to two lines to the east of the station: the BMT Jamaica Line tracks, and the BMT Fulton Street Line tracks to Lefferts Boulevard, which were eventually connected to the IND Fulton Street Line anyway, albeit past Grant Avenue.[70]
Manhattan Junction
Ridership[edit]
In 2016, the station had 3,085,401 boardings, making it the 166th most used station in the 422-station system. This amounted to an average of 9,189 passengers per weekday.[3] In 2017, The New York Times wrote that 100,000 daily passengers used the station per day, meaning that the vast majority of passengers used the station to make transfers to other routes.[4] By 2019, annual ridership had declined to 2,759,349 boardings, making Broadway Junction the 177th most-used station in the 423-station system. This amounted to an average of 7,813 passengers per weekday.[3] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, ridership dropped drastically in 2020, with only 1,292,868 passengers entering the station that year.[3]
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