Myrtle Avenue (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)
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Myrtle Avenue
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| Former New York City Subway rapid transit station | |
Notice of the closing of Myrtle Avenue
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| Station statistics | |
| Address | Flatbush Avenue Extension & Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn, NY |
| Borough | Brooklyn |
| Coordinates | 40°41′37″N 73°59′00″W / 40.6937°N 73.9833°WCoordinates: 40°41′37″N 73°59′00″W / 40.6937°N 73.9833°W |
| Line | BMT Fourth Avenue Line |
| Services | None |
| Structure | Underground |
| Platforms | 2 side platforms |
| Tracks | 5 |
| Other information | |
| Opened | June 22, 1915 |
| Closed | July 16, 1956 |
| Former/other names | Gold Street |
| Station succession | |
| Next north |
Canal Street (via Broadway Line) Grand Street (via Sixth Avenue Line) |
| Next south | DeKalb Avenue |
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.
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.
The entrance to the station was from the inside of a building, and after the station was closed up, the connection was blocked off with a cinderblock wall. In 2007, the City allowed a developer that purchased the block above the station to demolish the access point to the station. A thick concrete wall now exists at the entrance to the platform.
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