![]() This plan was never fully realized, and today Chambers St is one of the dirtiest and most overbuilt stations in the system, a far cry from its destiny as the crown jewel in the BMT system. These two loops would have met at Chambers St station. The other loop was to come from Brooklyn over the south side of the Manhattan Bridge and continue back to Brooklyn through the Montague Tunnel, forming a loop for the BMT’s subway lines. ![]() One of these loops was to come over the Williamsburg Bridge from the Broadway El and return to Brooklyn over the Brooklyn Bridge, forming a loop for the BMT’s El lines. Originally built in 1915 to be the center of the BMT’s vast network of subway and El lines, its intended purpose was to be at the crux of two loops of tracks coming from Brooklyn into lower Manhattan and back to Brooklyn. In addition, in the bottom right, the southern end of the next station on the line, Chambers St, is visible.Ĭhambers St is a mammoth of a station. The (A)(C) IND Fulton Street Line (labeled “Linea Fulton St”) can be seen underneath the (J)(Z) Fulton St station. Fulton St’s two levels are shown highlighted in the red cross-sections. Fulton Street station is visible in the middle of the lower diagram labeled “Stazione Fulton” since this diagram was made by the Italian architect Renzo Picasso. At the top left, the storage tracks and extension south of Broad Street station are visible, showing the tunnels sinking much lower and becoming deep level tubes rather than the boxy shape of the tunnels characteristic of the cut-and-cover style of construction. In this diagram of the subway line (in which the upper diagram is an extension of the lower one), the complexity of this portion of the line, called the Nassau Street Subway, is revealed. Diagram of the Nassau Street Subway, south of Chambers Street, by Italian architect Renzo Picasso It was built in this manner because Nassau Street (the continuation of Broad Street north of Wall Street) wasn’t wide enough for two tracks and two side platforms on the same level. The next stop north is Fulton St, built as a stacked station, with the southbound platform on the upper level and the northbound platform on the lower level. The two tail tracks (tracks that continue past the last stop in order to store trains) are currently used to turn (J) and (Z) trains around using the X shaped diamond crossover (a kind of switch that allows trains to access both tracks). The last time these tracks were used for revenue service was before the 2010 service cuts when rush hour (M) trains (before the (M) was rerouted to 6th Avenue) continued past Broad St to Bay Pkwy on the West End Line (the (D) train) in Brooklyn. This track map shows the currently unused tracks (in black) continuing to a junction under the East River with the Montague Street Tunnel tracks (in yellow). These tracks connect to the Montague Street Tunnel, currently used by the (R) train.Ī screenshot from Vanshnookenraggen’s Subway Track Map In fact, standing at the southern end of the station, it is clear to see that the tracks continue into a tunnel. This is because Broad St was not always a terminal station. The layout of the station is unusual for a terminal, with two side platforms that don’t connect at platform level, rather than an island platform (a single platform in between two tracks), or a U shaped station with the platforms connected at one end and the tracks in the middle. The station sits just south of Wall Street, adjacent to Federal Hall and the New York Stock Exchange. This station is one of the few stations in the system named for the street along which the subway runs, as opposed to a perpendicular street that the subway crosses. The line starts at Broad St, in the Financial District of Manhattan. Read the Introduction on the home page for some relevant background and important information Four of the thirty sharpest curves in the entire system lie along this route. The longest continually served station in the city lies along this route. ![]() As you travel from Broad Street to Jamaica Center, you travel over both the oldest and newest pieces of elevated track in the entire system. As puts it, “the Broadway Elevated Line is a study in contrasts”. It is the descendent of the Broadway El Line, built in stages by the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad, the Union Elevated Railroad, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation, and the Independent Subway. ![]() The Jamaica Line is the longest elevated line in the system. The BMT Jamaica Line is the MTA’s name for the tracks of the (J), (Z), and part of the (M) services, colored brown on the map. ![]()
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