Middle Village–  Metropolitan Avenue
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Station statistics
Address	67-28 Metropolitan Avenue Queens, New York
Borough	Queens
Locale	Middle Village
Coordinates	40°42′44″N73°53′21″W / 40.712232°N 73.889194°W /40.712232; -73.889194
Division	B (BMT)[1]
Line	BMT Myrtle Avenue Line
Services	M  (all times)
Transit	NYCT Bus:Q38,Q54,Q67
Structure	At-grade at northern end; western side sloped into anembankment at southern end
Platforms	1island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	October 1, 1906; 119 years ago (1906-10-01)[2]
Closed	July 16, 1974; 51 years ago (1974-07-16) (fire-related closure) July 1, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-07-01) (temporary line closure)
Rebuilt	August 9, 1915; 110 years ago (1915-08-09) (relocation) 1980; 45 years ago (1980) (fire-related rebuilding) September 1, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-09-01) (temporary line closure)
Accessible	ADA-accessible
Former/other names	Metropolitan Avenue
Traffic
2024	842,211[3]  12.6%
Rank	322 out of 423[3]
Services Preceding station New York City Subway Following station Fresh Pond Road towardForest Hills–71st Avenue Terminus
Location Show map of New York City Subway Show map of New York City Show map of New York
Track layout Legend New York Connecting Railroad toFresh Pond Yard toFresh Pond Road LIRRBay Ridge Branch
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Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times

TheMiddle Village–Metropolitan Avenue station (announced as the Metropolitan Avenue-Middle Village station on trains and signed asMetropolitan Avenue) is aterminal station of theBMT Myrtle Avenue Line of theNew York City Subway. It is located at the intersection ofMetropolitan Avenue and Rentar Plaza in the neighborhood ofMiddle Village, Queens.^[4] The station is served by theM train at all times.

The station originally opened on September 3, 1881 as the terminus of theLutheran Cemetery Line, a formersteam dummy surface line.^[5] On October 1, 1906, the Lutheran line was connected to theBMT Myrtle Avenue Line via ramp at theWyckoff Avenue.^[2] A second station, just west of the original facility,^[2] opened on August 9, 1915, with the other former Lutheran surface stations having been recently elevated. This station was moved due to the original being located in the right-of-way of the then-futureNew York Connecting Railroad. On July 16, 1974, a fire completely destroyed the original wooden platform and station house along with threeR27 cars and one R30 car, along with some fire damage done to fourR32 cars, and the station had to be completely rebuilt.^[6] It reopened in 1980 with the current concrete platform and brick stationhouse.

By railroad and service directions, the station is the southern terminal of both the Myrtle Avenue Line and full-length M train. It was the northern terminal of the M train by service direction before its reroute on June 27, 2010.^{[7][8][9][10]} Even though this is the M's southern terminal by railroad direction, the service's late-night terminus,Myrtle Avenue, is geographically further south, but the weekend and weekday terminals atEssex Street andForest Hills–71st Avenue, respectively, are geographically further north.

In 2023, plans were announced for theInterborough Express, alight rail line using theFremont Secondary right of way.^[11] As part of the project, a light rail station at Metropolitan Avenue has been proposed next to the existing subway station.^[12][13]

Ground level	Exit/entrance	Fare control, station agent,MetroCard machines Station at street level; station house at southeast corner of Metropolitan Avenue and Rentar Plaza East.
	Westbound	← towardForest Hills–71st Avenue weekdays,Essex Street weekends,Myrtle Avenue late nights(Fresh Pond Road)
	Island platform
	Westbound	← toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue weekdays, Essex Street weekends, Myrtle Avenue late nights(Fresh Pond Road)

The station, built on an embankment with the north end at street level,^[2][6] has two tracks and a concreteisland platform with benches. The tracks end atbumper blocks at the north end of the platform. A steel canopy with fluorescent lights and supported by silver columns covers the entire platform.

On the side of the westernmost track opposite from the platform is an employee-only facility. The control tower for the Myrtle Avenue Line is at the south end of the platform. Just to the south of the station lies theFresh Pond Yard. It is only accessible from this station, so trains coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn must first enter the station, then reverse into the yard.

The grade-level station house, the station's only entrance, is located at the eastern corner of Rentar Plaza and Metropolitan Avenue.^[14] It is made of bricks with glass windows.^[15] There are two pairs of doors leading to the platform,turnstile bank and token booth. Also, there are two pairs of doors out to the street corner and another door along Metropolitan Avenue. Because the station house is at ground level and the platform extends out of the station house, this station is fullyADA-accessible, without an elevator or ramp.^[16]

The New York Connecting Railroad travels in an open-cut, directly east of and parallel to the station.^[15] A station on the plannedInterborough Express light-rail line, which will use the New York Connecting Railroad right of way, has been proposed next to the existing subway station.^[17][13]

A little further east isChrist the King Regional High School.^[14] Directly to the west of the station isMetro Mall, a largeshopping mall opened in the early 1970s with now relatively few stores.^[18] The station is located at Metropolitan Avenue's intersection with Rentar Plaza, which is the access road to the mall's parking lots.^[15][14][19] TheLutheran All Faiths Cemetery is located across Metropolitan Avenue and near the eastern side of the station.^[15][14][19]

Wikimedia Commons has media related toMiddle Village – Metropolitan Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line).

• nycsubway.org –BMT Myrtle Avenue Line: Metropolitan Avenue
• Station Reporter —M train
• The Subway Nut —Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue Pictures
• Metropolitan Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform from Google Maps Street View

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• Middle Village, Queens

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