Line BMT Fourth Avenue Line Structure Underground Borough Brooklyn Platforms in use 2 | Services None Former/other names Gold Street Opened 22 June 1915 Tracks 5 | |
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Address Flatbush Avenue Extension & Myrtle Avenue
Brooklyn, NY Closed July 16, 1956; 60 years ago (1956-07-16) Similar Bushwick, Metropolitan Avenue, Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues, Kosciuszko Street, Myrtle–Willoughby Avenues | ||
Myrtle Avenue is an abandoned local station on the Manhattan Bridge subway tracks (B D N Q trains) south of the bridge in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. This underground station, opened on June 22, 1915, and closed on July 16, 1956 for the reconstruction of the flying junction north of DeKalb Avenue to increase capacity for the entire BMT Division. The Brooklyn-bound platform was removed completely, but the Manhattan-bound platform still exists.
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Map of Myrtle Ave, New York, NY, USA
This station was a casualty of the rebuild. A new track had to be added on the west side to allow for a grade-separated crossing. The original southbound "local" track at the platform had to be depressed to a lower grade to cross under, and the new track wiped out the southbound platform. The northbound platform was left in place but no longer operated for passenger service.
There was a plan to build a loop just north of this station to turn back Fourth Avenue local trains from 95th Street. The bellmouths for the un-built loop can be seen just north of this station where the bypass tracks join the bridge tracks that stop at DeKalb Avenue.
Myrtle Avenue station was sometimes called Gold Street in some early planning documents, and in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle when the station opened.
Masstransiscope
In 1980 the Masstransiscope zoetrope artwork by Bill Brand was installed. After falling into a state of disrepair, graffiti was removed in 2008 and the artwork restored. This artwork and the station can be seen by looking out the right window of Manhattan-bound B Q trains (and D trains during late nights when they stop at DeKalb Avenue) right before the bridge. Masstransiscope was again covered by graffiti during the complete subway shutdown during Hurricane Sandy and again restored after that.