Martin Luther King Jr. station (Los Angeles Metro)

Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr
	Martin Luther King Jr. station platform
General information
Location	4051 South Crenshaw Boulevard; Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34°00′34″N 118°20′07″W / 34.009571°N 118.335288°W
Owned by	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Los Angeles Metro Bus; LADOT DASH
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	October 7, 2022
Services
Location
Location

Martin Luther King Jr. station is an underground light rail station on the K Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located underneath Crenshaw Boulevard at its intersection with Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills and Leimert Park. The station’s main entrance is next to the iconic Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza shopping mall.

The station opened on October 7, 2022.^[1]

The station incorporates artwork by three artists: Mara Lonner, Shinique Smith, and Eileen Cowin.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Patel, Tine (October 7, 2022). "LA Metro's new K Line opens today". CBS. Archived from the original on October 7, 2022. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
^ Broverman, Neal (January 22, 2018). "An Early Look at All the Artwork Coming to the Metro Crenshaw Line Los Angeles Magazine". Los Angeles Magazine. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved April 21, 2019.