South Fourth Street Provisional Station
The north end of Broadway has been sealed up with false walls and is used as storage. This northern third of the platform level area consists of closed transfer passages that are sealed behind doors and fences. These passages lead to the South Fourth Street station shell on the upper level. The shell was built as part of a planned expansion of the Independent Subway System.
South Fourth Street was to be the main transfer point from the proposed Worth Street and Houston Street Lines coming from Manhattan with the Crosstown Line. These lines would have become two major trunk lines going east. 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.
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.
In 2010, dozens of street artists created murals on the walls of the abandoned station, after which the MTA sealed up once-available entrances to the station shell.
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