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Tompkins Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line)

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Services
  
BMT Myrtle Avenue Line

Opened
  
19 December 1889

Next north
  
Sumner Avenue

Platforms in use
  
1

Structure
  
Elevated

Borough
  
Brooklyn

Next south
  
Nostrand Avenue

Tracks
  
2

Address
  
Myrtle Avenue & Tompkins Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11206

Closed
  
October 4, 1969; 47 years ago (October 4, 1969)

Similar
  
Central Avenue, Forest Avenue, Knickerbocker Avenue, Fresh Pond Road, Seneca Avenue

Tompkins Avenue was a station on the demolished section of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line. It had two tracks and one island platform. It closed on October 4, 1969, after a fire on the elevated structure. The next stop to the north was Sumner Avenue. The next stop to the south was Nostrand Avenue.

References

Tompkins Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line) Wikipedia