ADA accessibility now on the agenda for busy but overtaxed Broadway Junction station
A grant of $15 million to make the Broadway Junction subway station in East New York disabled-accessible is part of a $28.9 million federal transportation package for the New York metro area. It was announced on Friday in Washington, D.C.
The Broadway Junction-Broadway East New York complex serves five subway lines — the A Eighth Avenue express, the C Eighth Avenue local, the L 14th Street-Canarsie line, the J Broadway-Nassau Street local and the Z Broadway-Nassau Street express.
More than 100,000 riders pass through this station daily. Users, according to published reports, include not only local people commuting to their jobs, but Downtown Brooklyn residents and Manhattanites changing trains to get to JFK Airport.