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Flushing Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)

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Division
  
B (BMT)

Structure
  
Elevated

Borough
  
Brooklyn

Tracks
  
3

Line
  
BMT Jamaica Line

Platforms
  
2 side platforms

Opened
  
25 June 1888

Flushing Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)

Services
  
J  (all times except weekdays 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., peak direction)       M  (all times except late nights)

Transit connections
  
NYCT Bus: B15, B43, B46, B47, B57

Address
  
Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206, USA

Locale
  
Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick

Similar
  
Lorimer Street, 121st Street, Hewes Street, Gates Avenue, Cypress Hills

Flushing Avenue is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Flushing Avenue and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times except rush hours and middays in the peak direction and the M train at all times except late nights.

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Station layout

This elevated station, opened on June 25, 1888, has two side platforms and three tracks. The center express track is used by the J and Z trains weekdays in the peak direction. Both platforms have beige windscreens with red canopies supported by green frames and support columns along the entire length. The station signs are in the standard black plate with white lettering.

The 2006 artwork here is called Migration by Robin Holder. It features stained glass windows on the platform windscreens and station house.

Exits

The station's only entrance/exit is an elevated station house beneath the tracks. It has two staircases from either southern corners of Flushing Avenue and Broadway, token booth, turnstile bank, a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions, and a single staircase to each platform at their extreme north end. Each staircase landing has an exit-only turnstile to allow passengers to exit the station without having to go through the station house. Three elevators were installed in Fall 2003 to make this station ADA accessible due to its proximity to Woodhull Hospital. One of them is at the southwest corner of Broadway and Flushing Avenue and goes up to the adjacent staircase balcony. The other two go up to the platforms from the staircase landing.

The station formerly had another entrance/exit at the south end that led to Fayette Street. The station house has been removed, but the staircases remain and are now used for emergencies only. This entrance was closed in the 1980s due to high crime.

References

Flushing Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line) Wikipedia