Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues (New York City Subway)

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Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues
New York City Subway station
Station information
Services	L (all times) M (all times)
Other

Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues is a New York City Subway station complex formed by the intersecting stations of the BMT Canarsie Line and the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line. Served by the L and M trains at all times, it is located at Myrtle Avenue and Wyckoff Avenue in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. As Wyckoff Avenue (between Gates Avenue and Eldert Street) sits on the boundary line between Brooklyn and Queens, the station also serves the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens. The complex is connected by a set of stairs and escalators between the elevated and underground levels.

The entire station complex has undergone a major renovation since 2003 at a cost of $50 million. On April 19, 2007, the new and expanded main station building at the triangle of Myrtle, Gates and Wyckoff Avenues was formally opened. Improvements to the complex include lighting upgrades, stairway reconfigurations, new interior finishes, and a new communication system. By the fall of 2007, the station will be ADA compliant. A separate project to create an intermodal facility that would improve connections to bus routes is in the design phase as of April 2007, with an expected construction time of 17 months.^[1]

1 BMT Canarsie Line platform
2 BMT Myrtle Avenue Line platforms
3 Bus connections
4 References
5 External links

[edit] BMT Canarsie Line platform

Station information
Line	BMT Canarsie Line
Services	L (all times)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other
Opened	December 14, 1928
Next north	DeKalb Avenue: L
Next south	Halsey Street: L

Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues on the BMT Canarsie Line (originally named Myrtle Avenue) is underground and has two tracks with an island platform. A mosaic band is set at eye level, rather than high up on the wall, with brick red, yellow, tan and light blue offset by indigo and maroon. Unlike other Canarsie Line island platform stations, there are no visible girders in the walls. The ceiling is also lower than those at the other island platform stations. For most of its length, the Canarsie-bound side is located in Brooklyn, while the Manhattan-bound side is in Queens.

South of this station there is a third track for layups or storage, which is used for trains terminating here.

[edit] BMT Myrtle Avenue Line platforms


Station information
Line	BMT Myrtle Avenue Line
Services	M (all times)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	2
Other
Opened	December 19, 1889
Next north	Seneca Avenue: M
Next south	Knickerbocker Avenue: M

The center trackway at Wyckoff Avenue

Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line (originally named Wyckoff Avenue) is an elevated station. At the time of its opening on July 21, 1899, it had a single island platform with two tracks. On July 29, 1914, the station was reconfigured to two island platforms in order to accommodate an additional express track to Broadway-Myrtle Avenue. (The remainder of the line east of this station is a two-track configuration.)

By 1946, the center track was removed, the two platforms were joined together by a wooden walkway near the station's two staircases, and railings were installed where the center track existed. In the 2000s station reconstruction, the double staircases were replaced with a single wide staircase^[2]^[1], and the former center track was permanently eliminated with concrete connecting walkways and fencing around the gaps.^[1]^[3]