Posted February 18, 200916 yr Hold your breadth transit fans & metalheads. broadway junction, east new york city’s amazing transit tangle (b. 1885), 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 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! :banger: 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! :laugh: it’s always nighttime underneath brooklyn’s broadway here Inna gadda da vida baay bay! :banger: Joicks! :strong: 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! :-o + 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. it’s a rough area with a lot of sketchy stretches. If you do go early in the morning on a work day. ^ yep. brooklyn’s brownsville/east new york is on deck. :mrgreen:
February 18, 200916 yr I went through Brownsville and East New York (for reminicing) on MLK Jr Day. Lots of new infill over there. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 18, 200916 yr cool pics. Looks like where Meechy busted that chick on US Marshalls: Fugitive Task Force a couple weeks back. That show has the greatest use of Google Earth ever.
February 19, 200916 yr I always love your photo threads. This place looks insane. I LOVE that abandoned LIRR station.
February 23, 200916 yr Ahhh.. so that's where the "East New York" LIRR trains go.. Yeah they start at Flatbush in Downtown Brooklyn and go thru Jamaica
February 26, 200916 yr I know most wouldn't think so, but these pics look beautiful to me. Thanks for the tour.
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