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 The island platform at Broadway Station, tracks are to left and right of the parallel rows of columns |
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| Address | Intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Broadway, South Boston, MA | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°20′34″N 71°03′26″W / 42.3429°N 71.0572°WCoordinates: 42°20′34″N 71°03′26″W / 42.3429°N 71.0572°W | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | December 15, 1917 | ||||||||||
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| Owned by | Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2009 daily) | 4,200[1] | ||||||||||
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Broadway is a station on the Red Line subway at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Broadway in South Boston, Massachusetts. It was opened on December 15, 1917 as part of the Dorchester Extension of the "Cambridge Connection" from Downtown Crossing (formerly Washington station) to Andrew. The station has a single island platform to serve the two tracks. Broadway was to be a stop on the Urban Ring Project, which is currently shelved due to lack of funding.
Three MBTA buses serve Broadway: the 9 City Point - Copley via Broadway Station, 11 City Point - Downtown via Bayview, and 47 Central Square, Cambridge - Broadway Station via BU Medical Center routes.
History [link]
Broadway station was originally built as a three-level station, with six stairways to allow easy transfer between streetcars and subway trains. Some streetcars stopped at a surface-level platform, others in a tunnel just below ground, while subway trains used the lowest-level tunnel. Each level consisted of two tracks and an island platform.[2] The street-level platform served streetcars that ran from the Tremont Street Subway to City Point and South Boston via the Pleasant Street Portal and Broadway. Buses replaced the single line to Bay View (which originally used the middle-level tunnel) in 1929, but the City Point line lasted until 1953 before being bustituted.[2]
The middle-level streetcar tunnel ran from a portal on Foundry Street south to another in the median of Dorchester Avenue. Service lasted only until 1919, just after Andrew opened. (Andrew provided more convenient service to South Boston and eliminated unprofitable running on a industrial section of Dorchester Avenue. The Dorchester Avenue portal was filled in 1940, but much of the tunnel is still extant.[2] The concrete portal on Foundry Street still stands, and one can look through a fence into the old tunnel. Additionally, part of the 1980s-built fare lobby was built into the old streetcar platform and tunnel.
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Northbound side of abandoned streetcar tunnel
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Southbound side of abandoned streetcar tunnel
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Arch of streetcar tunnel visible in fare lobby
References [link]
- ^ "Ridership and Service Statistics". Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2010. https://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/documents/Bluebook%202010.pdf. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
- ^ a b c O'Regan, Gerry (2005). "MBTA Red Line". Nycsubway.org.
External links [link]
- MBTA - Broadway Station
Media related to Broadway (MBTA station) at Wikimedia Commons- Broadway entrance from Google Maps Street View
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Broadway (Chicago)
Broadway is a major street in Chicago's Lake View, Uptown, and Edgewater community areas on the city's North Side, running from Diversey Parkway (2800 North) to Devon Avenue (6400 North). Originally called Evanston Avenue, the name of the street was changed to Broadway on August 15, 1913 as part of 467 road name changes enacted on that date. The new name was taken from New York City's famous theater district. The street runs at a mostly southeast-to-northwest diagonal direction between Diversey Parkway and Lawrence Avenue (4800 North). Between Lawrence Avenue and Devon Avenue, Broadway runs in a north-to-south direction and becomes 1200 West in place of Racine Aveune. The north-south section of Broadway is located a half-block west of and parallel to the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line and Purple Line elevated train tracks. Broadway carries U.S. Route 14 from its terminus at Foster Avenue to the intersection of Ridge and Bryn Mawr Avenues. Broadway is the only street in the city of Chicago that does not have a suffix. It is neither Street, Avenue, Road, Boulevard nor Parkway; known simply as Broadway.
Broadway (1929 film)
Broadway is a 1929 film directed by Pál Fejös from the play of the same name by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis, Merna Kennedy and Thomas E. Jackson.
This was Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences. The film was released by the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and DVD with Paul Fejo's Lonesome on August 2012.
Plot
Roy Lane and Billie Moore, entertainers at the Paradise Nightclub, are in love and are rehearsing an act together. Late to work one evening, Billie is saved from dismissal by Nick Verdis, the club proprietor, through the intervention of Steve Crandall, a bootlegger, who desires a liaison with the girl. "Scar" Edwards, robbed of a truckload of contraband liquor by Steve's gang, arrives at the club for a showdown with Steve and is shot in the back. Steve gives Billie a bracelet to forget that she has seen him helping a "drunk" from the club. Though Roy is arrested by Dan McCorn, he is later released on Billie's testimony. Nick is murdered by Steve. Billie witnesses the killing, but keeps quiet about the dirty business until she finds out Steve's next target is Roy. Billie is determined to tell her story to the police before Roy winds up dead, but Steve isn't about to let that happen and kidnaps her. Steve, in his car, is fired at from a taxi, and overheard by Pearl, he confesses to killing Edwards. Pearl confronts Steve in Nick's office and kills him; and McCorn, finding Steve's body, insists that he committed suicide, exonerating Pearl and leaving Roy and Billie to the success of their act.
Chocolat (clown)
Rafael Padilla, more commonly known by his stage name Chocolat, was a clown who entertained Parisians in the early years of the 20th century. An "exotic" star of French stage during the Belle Époque, his work was forgotten until the late 20th and early 21st century when they were rediscovered.
Early life
Rafael was born in Cuba sometime between 1865 and 1868 to a slave family. At the time, slave births were not registered, so his date of birth is uncertain. In 1878, his parents escaped Cuba but left him in the care of an elderly Cuban woman in a poor neighborhood in Havana. This woman then sold him to a Spanish trader as a farmhand for his mother near Bilbao. After his arrival, Basque farmers wanted to whitewash him with a horse brush, but at the age of 14 he fled and began working odd jobs in Bilbao, including as a street singer and porter.
Debut
The famous Auguste Tony Grice discovered Rafael working the docks of Bilbao, impressed by both his physical strength and his dancing. He hired him as his manservant and handyman and then made him his partner in some of his numbers, in which Rafael would act as a stuntman.
Chocolat (song)
Chocolat (ショコラ Shokora) is the fifth single and major label debut of Kaya, released on April 23, 2008.
The title track, "Chocolat," is composed by Kaya's former Schwarz Stein bandmateHora. Hora also composed the B-side track, "Pourriture noble", which harbors a significantly darker tone than the title track, closer to the variety of digital-gothic music that Kaya is known for.
The single also contains an acoustic mix of the title track by Sizna (of Japanese band Sugar) and an instrumental version.
