Division A (IRT) Transit connections NYCT Bus: B14 Platforms 2 side platforms Borough Brooklyn | Line IRT New Lots Line Structure Elevated Opened 22 November 1920 Locale Brownsville | |
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Services 2 (special rush hour trips)
3 (all except late nights)
4 (late nights and special rush hour trips)
5 (special rush hour trips) Address Brooklyn, NY 11212, United States Similar Pennsylvania Avenue, Van Siclen Avenue, Rockaway Avenue, Saratoga Avenue, Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road | ||
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 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, it is served by the 3 train at all times except late nights, when the 4 train takes over service. Occasional rush hour 2, 4 and 5 trains also stop here.
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History
This station opened on November 22, 1920, as part of an extension of the IRT Eastern Parkway Line from Utica Avenue to Junius Street.
Station layout
There are two side platforms and three tracks; it is also the only station on the line with a center track, which does not have a third rail and thus can only be used by diesel trains or other non-electric equipment. 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. 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. 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 main entrance of the Livonia Avenue station on the BMT Canarsie Line. There are proposals to convert the overpass into a free-transfer passage between the two stations, due to increasing ridership and plans for additional housing in the area. Money is allocated in the 2015–2019 Capital Program to build this transfer. Both stations will also be upgraded to become compliant with mobility accessibility guidelines under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. From January 2019 to at least July 2020, a free MetroCard-only transfer between the two stations will be provided due to a rehabilitation of the 14th Street Tunnel.
On October 5, 2016 and continuing until spring 2017, Junius Street and Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road are closed for renovation. Junius Street is not expected to get elevator access unless it is made into a free transfer complex with Livonia Avenue.
Exits
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 mezzanine/station house beneath the tracks has a token booth, turnstile bank, and two staircases to the center of each of the two side platforms.
In popular culture
A scene in the movie Brooklyn's Finest shows Ethan Hawke's character chasing a man up to the stairs of the Junius Street station.
In a scene from the 1992 movie Just Another Girl on the IRT, the main character is seen walking up the stairs, then is later seen on the elevated platform of this station.