Seneca Avenue Subway Station (Myrtle Avenue Line)

Seneca Avenue is a station on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Palmetto Street and Seneca Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens, it is served by the M train at all times.

Station layout

P Platform level Westbound ← toward Forest Hills weekdays, Essex Street weekends, Myrtle Avenue late nights (Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues) Island platform Eastbound → toward Metropolitan Avenue (Forest Avenue) → M Mezzanine Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines G Street level Exit/entrance

This elevated station, which was opened on August 9, 1915 by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, has two tracks and an island platform. The platform has a steel canopy supported by black and green columns in the center.

To the northeast (railroad south) of the station, the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line curves east to leave the street grid and continue as an elevated structure over the former grade level steam dummy Lutheran Cemetery Line. Southwest of the station, there is space for a center track.

Exits

The station's only entrance/exit is an elevated wooden mezzanine beneath the tracks. It has two staircases to the platform with doors on the landings, turnstile bank, token booth, and two street stairs to the southwest and northeast corners of Palmetto Street and Seneca Avenue.

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