Myrtle Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)

Myrtle Avenue

New York City Subway rapid transit station

Station entrance, before the M train was relocated to the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan.

Station statistics

Address

Myrtle Avenue & Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Borough

Brooklyn

Locale

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick

Coordinates

40°41′49″N 73°56′7″W / 40.69694°N 73.93528°WCoordinates: 40°41′49″N 73°56′7″W / 40.69694°N 73.93528°W

Division

B (BMT)

Line

BMT Jamaica Line

Services

      J (all times)
      M (all times except late nights)
      Z (rush hours, peak direction)

Transit connections

NYCT Bus:

B15, B46, B47, B54

Subway Shuttle Bus (NYCT): M Routes 1 & 2

Structure

Elevated

Levels

2 (upper level abandoned)

Platforms

3 island platforms (2 in service (lower level), 1 disused (upper level))
cross-platform interchange (lower level)

Tracks

3 (lower level), 2 (upper level; removed)

Other information

Opened

June 25, 1888 (lower level)^[1]
April 27, 1889 (upper level)

Closed

October 4, 1969 (upper level)

Station code

097^[2]

Accessibility

Cross-platform wheelchair transfer available

Former/other names

Myrtle Avenue–Broadway

Traffic

Passengers (2016)

3,764,562^[3]

2.1%

Rank

136 out of 422

Station succession

Preceding station	New York City Subway	Following station
Sumner Avenue toward Park Row	BMT Myrtle Avenue Line (demolished)	Central Avenue toward Metropolitan Avenue
Terminus	no regular service	Central Avenue toward Metropolitan Avenue
Flushing Avenue toward Essex Street or 71st Avenue	BMT Jamaica Line (local) M	Kosciuszko Street toward Broadway Junction
Flushing Avenue toward Broad Street	BMT Jamaica Line (local) J Z	Kosciuszko Street toward Parsons/Archer
Flushing Avenue toward Broad Street	BMT Jamaica Line (demolished)	Kosciuszko Street toward Parsons/Archer
Marcy Avenue toward Broad Street	(express) no regular service	Broadway Junction toward Parsons/Archer

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction
	Stops late nights only
	Stops rush hours in the peak direction only

Location
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Myrtle Avenue (announced on trains as Myrtle Avenue–Broadway) is a New York City Subway express station on the BMT Jamaica Line. Located at the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times, the M train at all times except late nights, and the Z during rush hours in peak direction. The station has two platform levels, but all regular passenger service is on the lower platform level of the station. The station has an abandoned upper platform level which previously served the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line to Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge. Just east of the station, the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line diverges from the BMT Jamaica Line via slip switches in an at-grade junction.

Station layout

Track layout

to Bway Jct

to Kosciuszko St

to Central Av

to Flushing Av

to Marcy Av

3F	Former southbound Myrtle Avenue El	No track or roadbed
	Island platform, disused
	Former northbound Myrtle Avenue El	No track or roadbed
2F	Westbound local^{[note 1]}	← ( AM rush hours) toward Broad Street (Flushing Avenue) ← toward 71st Avenue (weekdays), Essex Street (weekends) (Flushing Avenue)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Center track	No regular service (Marcy Avenue westbound, Broadway Junction eastbound)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Eastbound local^{[note 1]}	→ ( PM rush hours) toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (Kosciuszko Street) → → toward Broadway Junction except late nights (Kosciuszko Street) (No service: Central Avenue)
1F	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
G	Street Level	Exit / Entrance

Lower level

A weekend R160A M shuttle train on the center track prior to the extension of weekend M service from Myrtle Avenue to Essex Street

This elevated station, opened on September 16, 1888 on the lower level, has three tracks and two island platforms. The center track, normally used by J and Z trains for peak-direction express service on weekdays and late night M trains to Metropolitan Avenue, is unused due to construction on the Myrtle Avenue Line until April 2018. East of this station, all trains continue on the Jamaica Line to East New York and, in the J/Z's case, to Queens.^[4]^[5]^[6] The connection to the Myrtle Avenue Line is one of the few remaining level junctions in the subway as well as one of the few places on revenue tracks with slip switches.^[7]^[8]

This station is announced as Myrtle Avenue–Broadway on R143 and R160 cars to distinguish it from the nearby Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues station.

Both platforms have brown canopies with green support columns and frames for their entire length except for a small section at either end. The station signs are in the standard black plates in white lettering.

The 1999 artwork here is called Jammin' Under the El by Verna Hart. It consists of stained glass windows on the platforms' sign structures as well as the station house depicting various scenes related to music.

Upper level

The abandoned upper level

The upper level station (which was marked on signs as Broadway) opened on April 27, 1889, and created a transfer opportunity to the BMT Jamaica Line. The previous station located nearby at Stuyvesant Avenue was then closed. 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 upper level was extended to Wyckoff Avenue on July 21, 1889.^[9] The BMT Myrtle Avenue Line from Broadway to Bridge–Jay Streets closed on October 4, 1969, and was replaced via transfer to the B54 bus toward Jay Street.

Exits

Station entrance

The lower level 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 cross-under, 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 of the western corners at Myrtle Avenue and Broadway.^[10]

Notes

1 2 This is a wrong-way concurrency in railroad direction.

References

↑ "The Broadway Line Opened". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 25 June 1888. p. 6.
↑ "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2011–2016". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. May 31, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
↑ Rivoli, Dan (March 17, 2016). "M line to be shut down next year for repairs". New York Daily News. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
↑ Brown, Nicole (March 18, 2016). "MTA: M line will shut down for part of next year". am New York. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
↑ "Myrtle Avenue Line Infrastructure Projects". mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved July 23, 2016.
↑ BMT Nassau St./Jamaica Line: Myrtle Avenue at nycsubway.org; see photos on that page.
↑ Video on YouTube
↑ "Lost the Second Game". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 21 July 1889. p. 2.
↑ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Bushwick" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2016.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Myrtle Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line).

Station Reporter — J Train
Station Reporter — M Train
The Subway Nut — Myrtle Avenue Pictures
MTA's Arts For Transit — Myrtle Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)
Myrtle Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platform and unused upper level from Google Maps Street View

New York City Subway stations, by service
	Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport 121st Street 111th Street 104th Street Woodhaven Boulevard 85th Street–Forest Parkway 75th Street–Elderts Lane Cypress Hills Crescent Street Norwood Avenue Cleveland Street Van Siclen Avenue Alabama Avenue Broadway Junction Chauncey Street Halsey Street Gates Avenue Kosciuszko Street Myrtle Avenue Flushing Avenue Lorimer Street Hewes Street Marcy Avenue Essex Street Bowery Canal Street Chambers Street Fulton Street Broad Street
	71st Avenue 67th Avenue 63rd Drive–Rego Park Woodhaven Boulevard Grand Avenue–Newtown Elmhurst Avenue Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue 65th Street Northern Boulevard 46th Street Steinway Street 36th Street Queens Plaza Court Square Lexington Avenue–53rd Street Fifth Avenue/53rd Street 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center 42nd Street–Bryant Park 34th Street–Herald Square 23rd Street–Sixth Avenue 14th Street/Sixth Avenue West Fourth Street–Washington Square Broadway–Lafayette Street Essex Street Marcy Avenue Hewes Street Lorimer Street Flushing Avenue Myrtle Avenue Central Avenue Knickerbocker Avenue Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues Seneca Avenue Forest Avenue Fresh Pond Road Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue
See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Commons category Note: Temporary reroutes on the 2, 5, and M trains are not reflected here. Stations with asterisks are served by that service during off-peak hours only. See linked articles for more information.

New York City Subway stations, by line (physical trackage)
Jamaica Line	Demolished stations Broadway Ferry Driggs Avenue [← to Essex Street, Nassau St. Line] Marcy Avenue Hewes Street Lorimer Street Flushing Avenue Park Avenue Myrtle Avenue Kosciuszko Street Gates Avenue Halsey Street Chauncey Street Broadway Junction [~~to Atlantic Avenue, Canarsie Line →~~] Alabama Avenue Van Siclen Avenue Cleveland Street Norwood Avenue Crescent Street Cypress Hills 75th Street–Elderts Lane 85th Street–Forest Parkway Woodhaven Boulevard 104th Street 111th Street 121st Street [to Sutphin Boulevard, Archer Avenue Lines →] Demolished stations Metropolitan Avenue Queens Boulevard Sutphin Boulevard 160th Street 168th Street
Myrtle Ave. Line	Metropolitan Avenue Fresh Pond Road Forest Avenue Seneca Avenue Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues Knickerbocker Avenue Central Avenue [to Myrtle Avenue, Jamaica Line →] Broadway Demolished stations Sumner Avenue Tompkins Avenue Nostrand Avenue Franklin Avenue Grand Avenue Washington Avenue Vanderbilt Avenue Navy Street Bridge–Jay Streets Adams Street
See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Commons category Stations and line segments in italics are closed, demolished, or planned. Track connections to other lines' terminals are displayed in brackets. ~~Struck through~~ passenger track connections are closed or unused in regular service.

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