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During cold or rainy rush hours, some commuters passing through Jackson Heights transform a corner bakery into their waiting room. At the Broadway Bakery off 74th Street, they drop bags and briefcases, sit on stools and glance through the large storefront window for the sign of a bus.
"They don't always buy, but it's always packed in here," cashier Marisol Lopez, 26, said in Spanish on a recent weeknight.
That's because the bakery sits in the middle of the path taken to transfer from subway to bus. Its location in the Victor Moore Arcade adjacent to the train station makes for a quick, dry thoroughfare.
Under a proposed rehabilitation of the station and arcade, that transfer would no longer force a commuter to choose between getting wet or sitting in a bakery. Nor would he or she have to climb stairs to purchase a token, then descend them to catch a subway. The city plans to transform the 74th Street station into a transportation complex that more easily and logically handles crowds and transferring passengers. The 74th Street train station spills out onto the Little India section of Jackson Heights.
Architects and transportation officials spoke last Thursday at a Community Board 3...