Junius Street (IRT New Lots Line)

Junius Street (IRT New Lots Line)

Junius Street is a station on the IRT New Lots Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Junius Street and Livonia Avenue, it is served by the 3 train at all times except late nights, when the 4 train replaces it. Occasional rush-hour 2, 4 and 5 service also stops here.

Despite the station name, there are no actual entrances to this station on Junius Street. The two street stairs to the station's only mezzanine are a block away on the south side of Livonia Avenue between Powell and Sackman streets.

The small, elevated station house beneath the tracks has a token booth, turnstile bank, and two staircases to the center of each of the two side platforms. Both platforms have beige windscreens and green canopies that run for the entire length.

This station is the highest point on the New Lots Line, which rises here to pass over the BMT Canarsie Line; it is also the only station on the line with a center track. Just west (railroad north) of the station, a track splits from both the northbound and southbound track, merging to form the center track; this goes through the station and turns south, crossing the southbound track at grade. The track joins with one from the BMT Canarsie Line and heads to the Linden Shops. This center track does not have a third rail and thus can only be used by diesel trains or other non-electric equipment.

At Junius Street, a block from the station entrance, an overpass running parallel to the New Lots Line allows pedestrians on Livonia Avenue to cross over the Long Island Rail Road's open-cut Bay Ridge Branch. This overpass leads to the front entrance Livonia Avenue station on the BMT Canarsie Line. Despite demands from residents, there is no free transfer between these two stations as of 2010.