Broadway Junction is a multi-use neighborhood in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, defined by Broadway to the north, Atlantic Avenue to the south, Rockaway Avenue to the west, and Van Sinderen Avenue to the east.
Broadway Junction was originally known as Jamaica Pass, a name that became famous in 1776 as the route the British Army marched from southern Kings County to attack Brooklyn during the Battle of Long Island.
The name refers to the junction of two Long Island Rail Road lines, the Canarsie, Jamaica, and Fulton Street subway lines at what is now Broadway Junction (New York City Subway). Atlantic Avenue, East New York Avenue, Broadway, Jamaica Avenue, Fulton Street and Interboro Parkway pass through the junction or terminate there. Nearby is the Cemetery of the Evergreens, and Highland Park.
Famous quotes containing the words broadway and/or junction:
“The name of the town isn’t important. It’s the one that’s just twenty-eight minutes from the big city. Twenty-three if you catch the morning express. It’s on a river and it’s got houses and stores and churches. And a main street. Nothing fancy like Broadway or Market, just plain Broadway. Drug, dry good, shoes. Those horrible little chain stores that breed like rabbits.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)
“In order to get to East Russet you take the Vermont Central as far as Twitchell’s Falls and change there for Torpid River Junction, where a spur line takes you right into Gormley. At Gormley you are met by a buckboard which takes you back to Torpid River Junction again.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)