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| Address | Avenue M & East 16th Street Brooklyn, NY 11230 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Midwood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | BMT Brighton Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | Q (all times) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure | Elevated embankment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1908 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former/other names | Elm Avenue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Passengers (2010) | 1,351,418[1] 18.7% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 304 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Avenue J: Q | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next south | Kings Highway: Q | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Avenue M (formerly Elm Avenue), is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in Midwood, Brooklyn, at Avenue M between East 15th and East 16th Streets. It is served by the Q train at all times.
This station, situated on an elevated embankment, has two side platforms and four tracks and closely resembles Avenue J and Avenue H stations. The two center tracks are used by the B express train on weekdays.
The station house is a brick building underneath the tracks facing onto the street on the south side of Avenue M. A closed stairway on the Coney Island-bound platform leads to the north side of the street.
This station began reconstruction in September 2009. Both platforms were rebuilt with new edges, windscreens, and canopies. The Coney Island-bound platform has a double wide staircase going down to the station house while the Manhattan-bound platform has a narrow staircase going down there and a bank of turnstiles leading to another staircase that goes down to the north side of Avenue M.
Just west of the station, at Avenue M and East 14th Street, is the former location of American Vitagraph, a prolific movie studio that produced silent movies from the turn of the 20th century until 1925, when it was purchased by Warner Bros. A smokestack bearing "Vitagraph Co." may still be seen from the station.
Edward R. Murrow High School is located just to the northeast adjacent to the line.