Description
This underground station, opened on July 1, 1937, has two tracks and two side platforms. 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." After the Daily News made a story about this 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.
The station has a small mezzanine above the platforms and tracks at the south end with two staircases to each side and allows a free transfer between directions. It had a northern half, but it has been sealed up and currently holds offices and storage space. A turnstile bank provides entrance/exit from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and three street stairs, one to the southwest corner of Broadway and Heyward Street and two to either eastern corners of Broadway and Union Avenue.
The BMT Jamaica Line is directly above the staircases to this station with Lorimer Street and Hewes Street lying to the east and west, respectively. There is no free transfer between either of those stations and this one.
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