{{Short description|Former New York City rapid transit line}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Refimprove|date=March 2017}} The '''East New York Loop''' was a short rapid transit structure in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, connecting the Fulton Street Elevated and Broadway Elevated, and its associated service patterns. The changes were unpopular with residents and soon undone; the loop was later used to connect the Canarsie Line to the Broadway Elevated. As part of the Dual Contracts, the loop was torn down and replaced by the multi-level Broadway Junction.
== Layout == The Loop complex consisted of an at-grade grand union junction (configured as two doubled wyes) providing all possible connections between the Broadway Elevated and the Fulton Street Elevated, with a single curved platform along the Cypress Hills-bound Broadway Line, Park Row-bound Fulton Street Line, and the track for Cypress Hills-bound Broadway trains to switch to the Park Row-bound Fulton Street line, as well as an island platform on the Fulton Street line and a side platform on the Broadway Ferry-bound Broadway line.<ref name="williams">{{cite web |last=Williams |first=Keith |date=August 6, 2012 |title=Weaving the Broadway Junction tapestry |url=http://theweeklynabe.com/2012/08/06/history-of-broadway-junction-brooklyn/ |website=theweekylnabe |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415045536/http://theweeklynabe.com/2012/08/06/history-of-broadway-junction-brooklyn/ |archive-date=April 15, 2020 |access-date=March 1, 2025 }}</ref><ref name="map">{{cite web| title=Broadway Junction Loop Detail| url=http://theweeklynabe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bwj-loop-detail.png| archive-date=April 16, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416020747/http://theweeklynabe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bwj-loop-detail.png| access-date=March 1, 2025| url-status=live}}</ref>
==History== The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company acquired the Broadway Elevated (Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad) on March 25, 1899,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50408312/|title=Transit in Possession of Brooklyn Elevated|date=March 25, 1899|work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|page=1}}</ref> and the Fulton Street Elevated (Kings County Elevated Railway) on July 6, 1899.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50385689/|title=To Run Road Next Week|date=July 7, 1899|work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|page=1}}</ref> Plans were soon made for a connection at East New York, where the two lines came within a block of each other. Free transfers would be implemented between the elevated and surface lines here.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50347927/|title=New Transit System Needs a Fair Trial|date=November 2, 1899|work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|page=6}}</ref> The electrified loop opened on August 8, 1900, and immediately received complaints because of a forced transfer at the loop to shuttle trains or surface cars to continue beyond East New York during off-peak hours.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50353194/|title=Twenty-Sixth Warders Complain of New L Loop|date=August 10, 1900|work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|page=3}}</ref> The new service pattern was blamed for poor school attendance.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50363242/|title=Small School Attendance is Charged to the Loop|date=November 21, 1900|work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|page=18}}</ref> The Loop service was discontinued prior to 1906, though the structure remained until the reconfiguration under the Dual Contracts.<ref name=williams></ref> <!--needs a description of the station configuration-->
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