Citi Bike Station Unveiled At Brooklyn's Broadway Junction Hub

BROOKLYN, NY — An expansion of Citi Bike announced this summer continued Wednesday with the unveiling of a new station at Brooklyn's Broadway Junction transit hub.

The new station, unveiled at a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday morning, is one of 85 that transportation officials and Citi Bike are planning to add to better connect more than two dozen neighborhoods across Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens.

Added to the corner of Van Sinderen Avenue and Truxton Street, officials said the Broadway Junction station will let riders get between central and eastern Brooklyn and connect them to the Long Island Rail Road, subways and bus lines.

“Broadway Junction brings together so many eastern Brooklyn neighborhoods — and with bike share now added to extensive bus and subway service, it will become even more of a transportation hub," Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said.

Citi Bike announced their expansion, which will extend into 2023, in July after a report found Citi Bike's current service area serves a largely white, affluent population while shutting out poor people of color.

The expansion will bring stations into many of those underserved neighborhoods, including Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, East Flatbush, Sunset Park, South Slope, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Park South and Kensington in Brooklyn.

The new station also added onto Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams' call earlier this year for more transportation equity around the Broadway Junction train hub, officials said.

“As borough president and an avid cyclist myself, I am excited to see Citi Bike expand further into Brooklyn, including some areas where transit options can be limited,” Adams said Wednesday. “These new stations must be coupled with aggressive investments in street safety, with priority given to areas like East New York and Brownsville.”

It also comes as ridership for the bike service, now owned by Lyft, is at an all-time high, the company said. September marked Citi Bike's busiest month ever, with more than 2.5 million rides.

Lyft committed $100 million to the expansion.