Broadway (Brooklyn) Broadway (Brooklyn) Broadway is an avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that extends from the East River in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in a southeasterly direction to East New York for a length of . It was named for the Broadway in Manhattan. The East New York terminus is a complicated intersection with East New York Avenue, Fulton Street, Jamaica Avenue, and Alabama Avenue. The BMT Jamaica Line () of the New York City Subway runs on elevated tracks over Broadway from the Williamsburg Bridge to East New York on its way to Queens. Broadway forms the
Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street (New York City Subway) 6 trains to be lengthened to nine cars, and allowed express trains to open all doors at the station (previously the doors only opened in eight of the ten cars). Upon its completion, the Worth Street station to the north was closed due to its close proximity to the platform extensions, and, as such, the station was renamed Brooklyn Bridge–Worth Street. After Worth Street station closed, the Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall station was known as "Brooklyn Bridge–Worth Street". The name was reverted to "Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall" in 1995. Google Maps: Street View: Abandoned Stations: Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street (New York City