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The Avenue M station (formerly South Greenfield, [3] [4] Elm Avenue [5]), is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway.It is located in Midwood, Brooklyn, at Avenue M between East 15th and East 16th Streets.
SW corner entrance This elevated station has two side platforms and two tracks with space for a third track, which was removed by 1946. Both platforms have steel canopies along their entire lengths except for small sections at their extreme ends.
The sandstone facade is divided into three vertical sections: the base, tower, and upper stories. Within the four-story base on 42nd Street, there is a small office entrance to the west, a large round-arched entrance at the center, and a smaller arcade to the east. The remainder of the facade is split by vertical piers into multiple bays. The ...
Land was purchased from Samuel Cowdrey, who was a vault owner in the earlier venture, and Perkins Nichols was engaged to construct the marble vaults, as he had done previously. The first of the vaults were ready by summer 1831, the cemetery was incorporated on April 26, 1832, and it continued to purchase land on either side of the original plot ...
[178] [286] Early plans for the plaza called for a map of Brooklyn to be carved within the pavement. [135] [136] Another set of stairs leads up from the terrace to a brick landing, which in turn leads to the actual entrance. [3] The main entrance facade is four stories high, flanked by side sections measuring three stories high. [286]
Downtown Brooklyn. Bridge Plaza/RAMBO; DUMBO. Fulton Ferry; Fort Greene; Prospect Heights. Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards; Vinegar Hill; South Brooklyn – takes its name from the geographical position of the original town of Brooklyn, which today includes the neighborhoods listed above under the heading "northwestern Brooklyn." It is not located ...
Exit/entrance, stairs to East New York LIRR station After the remaining portion of the Fulton Street el was removed in 1956, the Canarsie line continued to use the westernmost track and platform southbound, and the second track from the east and platform (over Snediker Avenue) northbound.
In April 1931, as part of project to extend the station platforms, a new entrance opened at Voorhies Avenue. [6] It was renovated by New York City Transit’s in-house maintenance-of-way forces in 1997-1998. [citation needed]