18th Avenue (IND Culver Line)

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Coordinates: 40°37′46.65″N, 73°58′37.07″W


18th Avenue
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	IND Culver Line
Services	F (all times)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	3
Other
Borough	Brooklyn
Opened	March 16, 1919
Next north	Ditmas Avenue (local): F Church Avenue (express): no regular service
Next south	Avenue I (local): F Kings Highway (express): no regular service

18th Avenue is an elevated station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 18th Avenue and McDonald Avenue in Borough Park, Brooklyn.

This is an express station with two island platforms and three tracks. The full time entrance is at 18th Avenue. The part time entrance is at Lawrence Avenue, which formerly had a booth that is now removed. Each mezzanine has two street staircases and one staircase to each platform. All the interlocking switches are north of this station. There was formerly a switch on the south side of 18th Avenue. The girder indicates that it was a track diverge from northbound local track to the middle track.