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| Address | Myrtle Avenue & Broadway Brooklyn, NY 11206 |
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| Borough | Brooklyn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locale | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | B (BMT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | BMT Jamaica Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | J (all times) M (all times) Z (rush hours, peak direction) |
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| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms cross-platform interchange |
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| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | June 25, 1888 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | November 3, 1969 (upper level) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former/other names | Myrtle Avenue – Broadway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 2,991,967[1] 2.68% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 168 out of 422 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next north | Kosciuszko Street (local): J (Z skips to Gates Avenue) Broadway Junction (express): no regular service Central Avenue (Myrtle): M |
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| Next south | Flushing Avenue (local): J M Marcy Avenue (express): J Z (Terminal): M Sumner Avenue (Myrtle Avenue; demolished) |
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Myrtle Avenue (announced as Myrtle Avenue – Broadway on the R160s to distinguish it from the nearby Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues station) is a two-level express station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by J and M trains at all times and the Z during rush hours in peak direction.
All service is on the lower level of the station. The upper level, previously serving the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line to Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, carries no tracks and is now abandoned.
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This elevated station, opened on June 25, 1888, has three tracks and two island platforms. The J and Z trains use the middle track for peak-direction express service on weekdays while the M train uses it as a terminal track for its late night and weekend shuttle service to Middle Village – Metropolitan Avenue. The rest of the time, both the J and M trains are on the local tracks.
Both platforms have brown canopies with green support columns and frames for their entire length except for a small section at either ends. The station signs are in the standard black plates in white lettering.
This station has an elevated station house to the west underneath the skeletal remains of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line. Two staircases from each platform go down to an elevated crossunder, where a shorter staircase on the Queens-bound side leads to the station house's waiting area. Outside the turnstile bank, there is a token booth and two staircases going down to either western corners of Myrtle Avenue and Broadway.
The 1999 artwork here is called Jammin' Under the El by Verna Art. It consists of stained glass windows on the platforms' sign structures as well as the station house depicting various scenes related to music.
North of this station, an "S" curve connects the BMT Jamaica Line to the Myrtle Avenue Line, used by the M train. This is one of the few remaining level junctions in the subway that are still controlled by slip switches.[2]
The upper level of this station was originally at Stuyvesant Avenue.[3] When the Myrtle Avenue Elevated opened on April 27, 1888,[3] the station was moved to Broadway make a transfer to the BMT Jamaica Line possible.[4] The upper-level station contained two tracks and an island platform, with stairs to both of the existing platforms on the lower level. The Myrtle Avenue El was extended to Wyckoff Avenue on July 21.[5] The next stop on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line to the west was Sumner Avenue until that section of the line closed on November 3, 1969.