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The BMT Jamaica Line, also known as the Broadway - Brooklyn Line, is an elevated rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn and Queens.It runs from the Williamsburg Bridge southeast over Broadway to East New York, Brooklyn, and then east over Fulton Street and Jamaica Avenue to Jamaica, Queens.
At the Rockaway Parkway Intermodal Center on the BMT Canarsie Line (L train), westbound B6, B82 Local, and B82 Select Bus Service customers arriving from East New York and Canarsie, eastbound B6 Local customers on trips terminating at Rockaway Parkway, and all B42 customers, are transported directly into the subway system's fare control without ...
September 10, 1932 [33] BMT Canarsie Line (L ) at Eighth Avenue: Greenwich Village: West Fourth Street–Washington Square: all A C E September 10, 1932 [33] IND Sixth Avenue Line (B D F <F> M ) Connection to PATH at Ninth Street: local crossovers to/from IND Sixth Avenue Line (no regular service) Hudson Square: Spring Street: local
Canarsie Line trains finally began running directly to Brooklyn in 1928, [127] by which the BMT was issuing 38,000 transfers per day at Canal Street during rush hours. [128] The addition of direct Brooklyn service on the Canarsie Line reduced overcrowding at the Canal Street station, [ 109 ] [ 128 ] and the passageway at Canal Street was ...
Initially, Court Street was served by Fourth Avenue Line local trains (labeled as the BMT 2), Brighton Beach Line express trains (the BMT 1), and some rush-hour West End Line trains (the BMT 3). [143] [145] Brighton express trains were later rerouted to the Manhattan Bridge, while Brighton locals started using the tunnel. [146]
The BMT Canarsie Line station runs west–east under both of the other stations, along 14th Street. [ 4 ] : 3 A 480-foot-long (150 m) mezzanine stretches above the BMT Broadway Line platforms, ramping down to a control area at its south end, where there are stairs down to the Broadway Line platforms and transfers to the other platforms.
The IND Queens Boulevard Line and BMT Broadway Line would be connected through the construction of a connection at 11th Street. The connection would be between the Queens Boulevard Line's local tracks at Queens Plaza and the BMT 60th Street Tunnel. [9] The IND Queens Boulevard Line would be extended from 178th to 184th Streets. [48]
As originally proposed in 1925, the line's junction with the IND Crosstown Line in Long Island City would have been a T-junction, allowing trains from Manhattan to travel south to Brooklyn via the Crosstown line. [16] A map from June of that year shows a proposed alternate routing for the Queens Boulevard Line, [17] that would have had the line ...