City plans $130 million public-realm overhaul at Broadway Junction; proposal relocates NYPD Transit District 33

EDC presented a plan June 3 to reclaim public land around Broadway Junction Station using $130 million in city and federal funds to expand parkland, improve streetscapes and relocate the NYPD Transit District 33 facility.

The proposal asks the borough board to begin the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) for four discretionary land‑use actions: a site selection for an extension of Callahan‑Kelly Playground, approval to relocate NYPD Transit District 33 to a portion of 1508 Herkimer Street and allow future redevelopment of the remainder of that lot, conversion of an MTA parking lot at Van Sinderen Avenue and Fulton Street into a 5,000‑square‑foot plaza, and related public‑realm changes and streetscape work.

EDC said the package knits together the city’s $130 million allocation with a federal RAISE grant and complements the MTA’s separate $400 million Broadway Junction station ADA upgrades. Julianne Herskowitz, senior vice president at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, told the board the program will “improve pedestrian safety, create better access to transit, and build new, beautiful, and accessible public open space in and around Broadway Junction Station.”

EDC said the Callahan‑Kelly extension would reclaim approximately a half acre of mapped parkland currently occupied by an above‑grade NYPD transit police station and deliver a combined park area of more than four acres. The presentation…