Hold your breadth transit fans & metalheads.
broadway junction, new york city’s amazing and historic transit tangle (built 1885), is located in brooklyn's east new york neighborhood and it encompasses the following:
several subway lines on multiple elevated levels as well as below ground, pedestrian crossovers, police station, old stubways, a partly elevated subway yard, huge bus terminal, busses, livery cabs, gypsy cabs, a long island railroad commuter station, an old viaduct, an old ghost lirr sub-station, pedestrian & auto underpasses, expressways, local & express streets….whew.
And with that it’s time to dish out the heavy, heavy metal!
just outside the A train station
On the left, the new red/white shed up there is unimaginatively dubbed “the barn”
This pedestrian flyover connects to a fairly alpine escalator and the A, C trains underground
Let’s start with the death metal!
it’s always nighttime underneath brooklyn’s broadway here
Inna gadda da vida baay bay!
Joicks!
Here you can see where it goes over the lirr viaduct
L train over my head on herkimer st
Another angle on van sinderen st
the pedestrian underpass to and under the lirr station
View from the other side of the underpass - you can see an lirr train on the left , the L train overhead & the east ny blvd underpass on the right.
here’s another view of it from across east ny blvd – and yes, i’m heading somewhere…
this is it -- the abandoned lirr substation #2, under the atlantic ave L train station
walking around....
next to the old substation -- the atlantic L train station over the viaduct
to the south are several long blocks of warehouses comprising the east brooklyn industrial park
Scrap metal plant
off the northside of pitkin ave is an old fulton ave el train “stubway”
More stubway deck on the southside of pitkin
L train rumbles away
Finally, when I left I took the elevated J train.
so here are a couple smudgitti’d front window shots at
alabama ave, the first broadway junction stop.
After it curves around over east ny ave, etc. you can see the junction and the “barn.”
Double-deckin!
+ little bit of the train yards too on the right,
too bad the side windows were so dirty
*** so that’s broadway junction - nyc’s far flung, historic & still vitally important transit hub ***
Much more broadway junction info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Junction_(New_York_City_Subway)
*note: not that very many outsiders would, but I do not recommend visiting around here. i've worked near here many many years and it is still a rough area with a lot of sketchy stretches. If you do go early in the morning on a work day.
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