Middle Village – Metropolitan Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line)

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Middle Village – Metropolitan Avenue
NYCS-bull-trans-M.svg
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Metropolitan Avenue - Stationhouse.jpg
View of Middle Village – Metropolitan Avenue Subway Station from across Metropolitan Avenue
Station statistics
Address 67-28 Metropolitan Avenue
Queens, NY 11379
Borough Queens
Locale Middle Village
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Division B (BMT)
Line BMT Myrtle Avenue Line
Services       M all times (all times)
Transit connections Bus transport New York City Bus: Q54
Bus transport MTA Bus: Q38, Q67
Structure Embankment; north end at street level
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Other information
Opened October 1, 1906; 117 years ago (1906-10-01)[1]
Rebuilt August 9, 1915; 108 years ago (1915-08-09)
1980; 44 years ago (1980)
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 1,361,246[2] Increase 4.7%
Rank 321
Station succession
Preceding station   MTA NYC logo.svg New York City Subway   Following station
BMT Myrtle Avenue Line
M all times		 Terminus
Handicapped/disabled access

Middle Village – Metropolitan Avenue is a terminal station of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Rentar Plaza in Middle Village, Queens, it is served by the M train at all times.

History

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An M train of R160A cars idling at the terminal

The station originally opened on October 1, 1906, to serve the adjacent Lutheran cemetery. It was part of an extension of the line past Wyckoff Avenue along a former steam dummy surface line.[1] A second station opened on August 9, 1915, west of the original facility,[1] while the other former surface stations were elevated. On July 16, 1974, a fire completely destroyed the original wooden platform and station house along with R27 cars 8202, 8203, 8237 and R30 car 8512 along with some fire damage done to R32 cars 3549, 3659, 3694 and 3695, and the station had to be completely rebuilt.[3] It reopened in 1980 with the current concrete platform and brick stationhouse.

By railroad and service directions, it is the southern terminal of the Myrtle Avenue Line and M train, respectively. However, it was the north terminal of the M train by service direction before its reroute on June 27, 2010.[4][5][6][7] During late night service, this is the M train's northern terminal by geographic direction, as the service's other terminus, Myrtle Avenue is geographically further south.

Station layout

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Street Level		 Exit/ Entrance Fare control, station agent, platform level
Handicapped/disabled access (Station at street level)
Track 2 ← NYCS-bull-trans-M.svg toward 71st Avenue (weekdays), Essex Street (weekends), Myrtle Avenue (late nights) (Fresh Pond Road)
Island platform, doors will open on the left, right Handicapped/disabled access
Track 1 ← NYCS-bull-trans-M.svg toward 71st Avenue (weekdays), Essex Street (weekends), Myrtle Avenue (late nights) (Fresh Pond Road)
Close-up of the Station Entrance

The station, built on an embankment with the north end at street level,[1][3] has two tracks and a concrete island platform with benches. The tracks end at bumper blocks at the north end of the platform. A steel canopy with fluorescent lights and supported by silver columns covers the entire platform. The grade-level station house is made of bricks with glass windows,[8] located at the eastern corner of Rentar Plaza and Metropolitan Avenue.[9] It has two pairs of doors leading to the platform, turnstile bank and token booth. Also, there are two pairs of doors out to the street corner and another door along Metropolitan Avenue. Because the station house is at ground level and the platform extends out of the station house, this station is fully ADA-accessible without the use of elevators or ramps.[10]

On the side of the westernmost track opposite from the platform is an employee-only facility. The control tower for the Myrtle Avenue Line is at the south end of the platform. Just to the south of the station lies the Fresh Pond Yard. It is only accessible from this station, so trains coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn must first platform here, and then reverse into the yard.

Points of interest

Track 1 of station

Directly adjacent to the station is the New York Connecting Railroad, which travels north in an open-cut. South of the station, it becomes continuous with the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Branch.[8][9] Past the station on its east side is Christ the King Regional High School.[8][9] Directly to the west of the station is Metro Mall, a large shopping mall with relatively few stores. The station is located at Metropolitan Avenue's intersection with Rentar Plaza, which is the access road to the mall's parking lots.[8][9][11] The Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery is located on the northern and eastern sides of the station.[8][9][11]

References

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