Broadway Junction (New York City Subway) - IND Fulton Street Line Platforms

IND Fulton Street Line Platforms

Broadway Junction
New York City Subway rapid transit station

Northbound train arriving on the local track
Station statistics
Division B (IND)
Line IND Fulton Street Line
Services A (all times)
C (all except late nights)
Structure Underground
Platforms 2 island platforms
cross-platform interchange
Tracks 4
Other information
Opened December 30, 1946; 66 years ago (December 30, 1946)
Former/other names Broadway – East New York
Station succession
Next north Rockaway Avenue (local): A C
Utica Avenue (express): A
Next south Liberty Avenue (local): A C
Euclid Avenue (express): A
Station service legend
Symbol Description
Stops in station at all times
Stops all times except late nights
Stops late nights only
Stops late nights and weekends only
Stops weekdays only
Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction
Stops all times except weekdays in the peak direction
Stops daily except rush hours in the peak direction
Stops rush hours only
Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
Station is closed
(Details about time periods)

Broadway Junction is an express station on the IND Fulton Street Line, formerly called Broadway – East New York. It has four tracks and two island platforms. The fare control is at the east (railroad south) end of the station; this entrance also serves the J, L and Z trains via newly-replaced escalators from street to elevated level. There is also a police precinct located in the mezzanine. If there was a former western end exit, there is no longer any evidence of it.

This station remained an unfinished shell during World War II due to material shortages. Its 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 2007, the "EAST NY" tiles on the wall were removed and replaced by tiles reading "JUNCTION", in the matching IND copperplate font.

There is an active tower just past the head end of the Queens-bound platform.

East of the station are bellmouths. These bellmouths were built for a proposed extension along the BMT Jamaica Line, or for proposed Jamaica Avenue Subway. It was not a provision for the IND Second System as were similar structures on other IND lines. One of these bellmouths has an emergency exit. There is nothing on the model board in the Broadway/East New York tower to show this provision.


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