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Central Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line)

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Division
  
B (BMT)

Services
  
M  (all times)

Platforms
  
2 side platforms

Borough
  
Brooklyn

Tracks
  
2

Line
  
BMT Myrtle Avenue Line

Structure
  
Elevated

Opened
  
19 December 1889

Locale
  
Bushwick

Central Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line)

Transit connections
  
New York City Bus: B38, B54

Address
  
Brooklyn, NY 11221, United States

Similar
  
Knickerbocker Avenue, Forest Avenue, Bushwick, Seneca Avenue, Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue

Central Avenue is a station on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Myrtle Avenue and Cedar Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, it is served by the M train at all times.

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Station layout

This elevated station, opened on December 19, 1889, has two side platforms and two tracks with space for a center track, which was removed by 1946.

The Queens-bound platform has brown canopies with green frames and support columns for the entire length except for small sections at either ends. A small section in the center below the canopy has beige windscreens while the rest of the platform has black, waist-high, steel fences. The Manhattan-bound platform has the same layout as the Queens-bound one except that the entire canopied portion has beige windscreens.

This station was rehabilitated from March to August 2013.

Exits

This station has one elevated station house beneath the platforms and tracks at the east end, though extra beams on the elevated structure suggests that another station house formerly existed at the west end. A single staircase from each platform goes down to a waiting area/crossunder, where a turnstile bank provides access to and from the station. Outside fare control, there is a token booth and two staircases going down to the southwest and northwest corners of Myrtle Avenue and Cedar Street. Only the northern staircase has a canopy above it.

References

Central Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line) Wikipedia