Avenue M
View from southbound platform
Station statistics
Address	Avenue M and East 16th Street Brooklyn, New York
Borough	Brooklyn
Locale	Midwood
Coordinates	40°37′06″N73°57′35″W / 40.618269°N 73.95961°W /40.618269; -73.95961
Division	B (BMT)[1]
Line	BMT Brighton Line
Services	Q  (all times)
Transit	NYCT Bus:B9
Structure	Embankment
Platforms	2side platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	1878; 147 years ago (1878) (BF&CI) 1908; 117 years ago (1908) (BRT)
Former/other names	Elm Avenue, South Greenfield
Traffic
2024	1,182,594[2]  2.4%
Rank	260 out of 423[2]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Avenue J toward96th Street Local Kings Highway towardConey Island–Stillwell Avenue does not stop here
Former services Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station Manhattan Beach Junction Terminus Manhattan Beach Branch King's Highway towardManhattan Beach
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend toAvenue J toKings Highway
Street map
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times

TheAvenue M station (formerlySouth Greenfield,^[3][4]Elm Avenue^[5]), is a localstation on theBMT Brighton Line of theNew York City Subway. It is located inMidwood, Brooklyn, at Avenue M between East 15th and East 16th Streets. The station is served by theQ train at all times.^[6]

The station originated as the South Greenfield grade station of theBrooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad (BF&CI). The line opened in 1878, and South Greenfield was one of the original stations. It also had a connection to theLong Island Rail RoadManhattan Beach Branch.^[7] Through a series of bankruptcies, buyouts, and mergers, the BF&CI became the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad (B&BB, 1887), Brooklyn Rapid Transit (BRT, 1900), Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT, 1923), New York City Rapid Transit (1940), New York City Transit Authority (1953), and the Metropolitan Transit Authority (1968). Through all the ownership and management changes, station name changes, and reconstruction of this portion of the line from grade to elevated embankment, the station was never shut, and has been in near-continuous operation for close to 150 years. However, the present structure was only built when the line was elevated onto the embankment, between 1903 and 1907. The station was later known as Elm Avenue.^[5]

On August 1, 1920, a tunnel underFlatbush Avenue opened, connecting the Brighton Line to theBroadway subway in Manhattan.^[8][9] At the same time, the line's former track connections to theFulton Street Elevated were severed. Subway trains from Manhattan and elevated trains fromFranklin Avenue served Brighton Line stations, sharing the line toConey Island.^[9][10]

This station underwent reconstruction from September 2009 to December 2011. Both of the station's platforms were rebuilt with new edges, windscreens, and canopies.^[11]

Platform level	Side platform
	Northbound local	← toward96th Street(Avenue J)
	Northbound express	← does not stop here
	Southbound express	→ does not stop here →
	Southbound local	→ towardConey Island–Stillwell Avenue(Kings Highway) →
	Side platform
Ground	Street level	Entrances/exits, station building and agent,MetroCard andOMNY vending machines

Situated on an elevatedembankment, Avenue M station has twoside platforms and four tracks. The side tracks provide the local service to this station, while the two center tracks, used by theB express train on weekdays, bypass the station.^[12] This layout, as well as many other station features, closely resemble many other local stations on the elevated portion of the line, especially theAvenue J station.

The 2011 artwork here is calledHare Apparent by Rita MacDonald. It is installed on the walls of the Coney Island-bound platform's staircase and consists ceramic tiling and glass mosaic depicting various species of birds and rabbits.

The station house is a brick building underneath the tracks. The entrance to the station house is in line with the storefronts of the south side of Avenue M. There is access from the north side of Avenue M to the Manhattan-bound platform, and although there is a stairway on the Coney Island-bound platform leading to the north side of the street, it is closed.^[13]

The Coney Island-bound platform has a double wide staircase going down to the station house while the Manhattan-bound platform has a narrow staircase going down there and a bank of turnstiles leading to another staircase that goes down to the north side of Avenue M. The Coney Island-bound staircase's landing has two exit-only turnstiles leading directly to the street.^[13]

Just west of the station, at Locust Avenue and East 14th Street, is the former location ofAmerican Vitagraph, a prolific movie studio that produced silent movies from the turn of the 20th century until1925, when it was purchased byWarner Bros. A smokestack bearing "Vitagraph Co." can still be seen from the station.^[14]

Edward R. Murrow High School is located just to the northeast adjacent to the line.

Media related toAvenue M (BMT Brighton Line) at Wikimedia Commons

• nycsubway.org –BMT Brighton Line: Avenue M
• Station Reporter —Q Train
• The Subway Nut —Avenue M PicturesArchived 2019-09-04 at theWayback Machine
• Avenue M entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View

• BMT Brighton Line stations
• New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn
• Railway stations in the United States opened in 1908
• 1908 establishments in New York City
• Midwood, Brooklyn

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