Seneca Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line)

Seneca Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station

North side stair
Station statistics
Address Seneca Avenue & Palmetto Street
Ridgewood, NY 11385
Borough Queens
Locale Ridgewood
Division B (BMT)
Line BMT Myrtle Avenue Line
Services       M  (all times)
Connection
Structure Elevated
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened August 9, 1915; 96 years ago (August 9, 1915)
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 670,795[1]  3.1%
Rank 394 out of 422
Station succession
Next north Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues: M 
Next south Forest Avenue: M 

Seneca Avenue is a station on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Palmetto Street and Seneca Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens, it is served by the M train at all times.

This elevated station, opened on August 9, 1915, has two tracks and an island platform. The platform has a steel canopy supported by black and green columns in the center.

The station's only entrance/exit is an elevated wooden mezzanine beneath the tracks. It has two staircases to the platform with doors on the landings, turnstile bank, token booth, and two street stairs to the southwest and northeast corners of Palmetto Street and Seneca Avenue.

North of the station, the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line curves to leave the street grid and continue as an elevated structure over the former grade level Steam dummy Lutheran Cemetery Line.

References

  1. ^ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. http://www.mta.info/nyct/facts/ridership/ridership_sub_annual.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-31. 

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