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Flatbush Avenue Extension and Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn, New York: Borough: Brooklyn: Coordinates: Division: B [1] Line: BMT Fourth Avenue Line: Services: None (abandoned) Structure: Underground: Platforms: 1 side platform (2 when station was open) Tracks: 5 (4 when station was open) Other information; Opened
The Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues station on the BMT Canarsie Line (originally named Myrtle Avenue station) is an underground station has two tracks with an island platform. A mosaic band is set at eye level, rather than high up on the wall, with brick red, yellow, tan and light blue offset by indigo and maroon.
Myrtle Avenue at Lewis Avenue, showing a remaining portion of the Myrtle Avenue Elevated train left standing after the line's western portion was demolished in October 1969. Myrtle Avenue is a 8.1-mile-long (13.0 km) street that runs from Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn to Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens, in New York City, United ...
Representatives of the Fire Fighter's Association said that the population of the station's service area had grown from 60,000 when it was closed to 200,000 in 2015. [7] Efforts to reopen the engine company increased in late 2018 and early 2019, after Amazon had announced that it had chosen a site near the station to house their massive new ...
Glendale contains a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, Engine Co. 286/Ladder Co. 135, at 66-44 Myrtle Avenue. [27] [28] In 1896, Glendale's first fire department, the Ivanhoe Park Hose Company, a volunteer fire company, was established. It was funded by Henry Meyer, a wealthy businessman, who owned a cigar factory, a lucrative ...
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.
1 – Albany Fire Department (New York) (8 stations) 2 – Altamont Fire District Station 1; 3 – Berne Fire District Station 66, 67 (2 stations) 4 – Boght Community Fire District 1; 5 – Coeymans Fire District 1 (1 station) 6 – Coeymans Volunteer Fire Company Station 1; 7 – Cohoes F.D. Station 1 (3 stations) 8 – Colonie Fire Company ...
The Subway: A Trip Through Time on New York's Rapid Transit. H & M Productions II Inc. ISBN 1-882608-19-4. Fischler, Stan (2004). The Subway and the City: Celebrating a Century. with John Henderson. Frank Merriwell Incorporated. ISBN 0-8373-9251-9. Dougherty, Peter (2007). Tracks of the New York City Subway v4.2