Historic Broadway station

Historic Broadway station is an underground light rail station on the A and E lines of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located at the southeast corner of 2nd Street and Broadway in the Historic Core section of Downtown Los Angeles. In planning documents, the station was originally going to be named 2nd St/Broadway.

Historic Broadway was built as part of the Regional Connector project, a tunnel through Downtown Los Angeles. The station is sited in privately owned land and required an agreement with the property's owner, which reserved the right to build a high-rise building above the station entrance on the site in the future. It was constructed via the sequential excavation method, the first time Metro has utilized the process.

Connections
, the following connections available:

Note: * indicates commuter service that operates only during weekday rush hours.
 * Los Angeles Metro Busway: J Line (910/950) at
 * Los Angeles Metro Bus:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Express, Express*
 * Antelope Valley Transit Authority: 785*
 * Big Blue Bus (Santa Monica): Rapid10*
 * City of Santa Clarita Transit: 799*
 * Foothill Transit: Silver Streak, *, *, *, *, *, *
 * LADOT Commuter Express: *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *, *
 * LADOT DASH: A, B, D
 * Montebello Bus Lines: 90Express*
 * Torrance Transit: 4X*

Notable places nearby
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:

• Ace Hotel Los Angeles

• Angels Flight

• Bradbury Building

• Broadway Theater District

• Caltrans District 7 Headquarters

• Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

• Cathedral of Saint Vibiana

• Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center

• Continental Building

• Grand Central Market

• Grand Park

• Hellman Building

• Higgins Building

• Hotel Alexandria

• Hotel Rosslyn Annex

• Los Angeles City Hall

• Los Angeles Department of Transportation Headquarters

• Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters

• Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building

• Los Angeles Theatre

• Los Angeles Theatre Center

• Mayan Theater

• Metropolitan Building

• Million Dollar Theater

• Orpheum Theatre

• Pacific Electric Building

• San Fernando Building

• State Theatre

• Stanley Mosk Courthouse

• Times Mirror Square

• Tower Theatre

Station artwork


Historic Broadway station is home to four Metro Art-commissioned artworks.

The station's glass entry pavilion is wrapped in Andrea Bowers' The People United (“El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,” Sergio Ortega and Quilapayun; “Brown Beret 13 Point Political Program,” La Causa) which features text artwork of revolutionary slogans such as “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido” (the people united will never be divided) and “By independence we mean the right to self-determination, self-government and freedom.”

According to Metro Art, "the first text is often heard chanted at marches and political demonstrations around the world". It originated in Chile between 1969 and 1973 in support of Salvador Allende’s presidential election and evolved into an anthem composed by Sergio Ortega for the Chilean Popular Unity coalition. The second is taken from a mission statement of the Brown Berets, a Chicano civil rights group founded in East Los Angeles and active during the late 1960s and early 1970s."

On the mezzanine level of the station, you can find Mark Steven Greenfield's glass mosaic named Red Car Requiem, a "sentimental tribute" to the Los Angeles Pacific Electric Red Cars. The artwork represents different destinations along a route, rendered in red, orange, and yellow hues of the Red Cars. It features a series of rosette-like clusters of curvilinear shapes that are connected by sweeping lines. Each rosette contains unique shapes that were once punched into Red Car passenger tickets.

Along the walls of the station platform is a mural by photojournalist Clarence Williams, entitled Migrations, and a temporary lightbox art installation by Ralph Gilbert, Performance on the Streets of LA.