Division B (BMT) Structure Elevated Level 2 (upper level abandoned) | Line BMT Jamaica Line Borough Brooklyn | |
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Services J (all times)
M (all times)
Z (rush hours, peak direction) Transit connections NYCT Bus: B15, B46, B47, B54 Levels 2 (upper level abandoned) Address Brooklyn, NY 11206, United States Locale Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick Similar Bushwick, Broad Street, Marcy Avenue, Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer, Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues | ||
Myrtle Avenue (announced on trains as Myrtle Avenue–Broadway) is a New York City Subway express station on the BMT Jamaica Line. Located at the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by J and M trains at all times and the Z during rush hours in peak direction. The station has two platform levels, but all regular passenger service is on the lower platform level of the station. The station has an abandoned upper platform level which previously served the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line to Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge. Just east of the station, the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line diverges from the BMT Jamaica Line via slip switches in an at-grade junction.
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Lower level
This elevated station, opened on September 16, 1888 on the lower level, has three tracks and two island platforms. J and Z trains use the middle track for peak-direction express service on weekdays while M trains use it as a terminal track for their late night shuttle service to Metropolitan Avenue. For the rest of the time, all trains are on the local tracks. East of this station, J and Z trains use the local track, continuing on the Jamaica Line to Queens; M trains use an "S" curve that connects the Jamaica Line to the Myrtle Avenue Line and continue to Metropolitan Avenue. This is one of the few remaining level junctions in the subway as well as one of the few places on revenue tracks with slip switches. This can be a bottleneck for any arriving train around here in either direction.
This station is announced as Myrtle Avenue–Broadway in R143 and R160 cars to distinguish it from the nearby Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues station.
Both platforms have brown canopies with green support columns and frames for their entire length except for a small section at either end. The station signs are in the standard black plates in white lettering.
The 1999 artwork here is called Jammin' Under the El by Verna Hart. It consists of stained glass windows on the platforms' sign structures as well as the station house depicting various scenes related to music.
Upper level
The upper level station (which was marked on signs as Broadway) opened on April 27, 1889, and created a transfer opportunity to the BMT Jamaica Line. The previous station located nearby at Stuyvesant Avenue was then closed. The upper level station contained two tracks and an island platform, with stairs to both of the existing platforms on the lower level. The Myrtle Avenue upper level was extended to Wyckoff Avenue on July 21, 1889. The BMT Myrtle Avenue Line from Broadway to Bridge–Jay Streets closed on October 4, 1969, and was replaced via transfer to the B54 bus toward Jay Street.
Exits
The lower level station has an elevated station house to the west underneath the skeletal remains of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line. Two staircases from each platform go down to an elevated cross-under, where a shorter staircase on the Queens-bound side leads to the station house's waiting area. Outside the turnstile bank, there is a token booth and two staircases going down to either of the western corners at Myrtle Avenue and Broadway.