BMT Myrtle Avenue Line

The Myrtle Avenue Line, also called the Myrtle Avenue Elevated,^[2] is a fully elevated line of the New York City Subway as part of the BMT division. The line is the last surviving remnant of one of the original Brooklyn elevated railroads. The remnant line operates as a spur branch from the Jamaica Line to Bushwick, Ridgewood, and Middle Village, terminating at its original eastern terminal across the street from Lutheran Cemetery. Until 1969, the line continued west into Downtown Brooklyn and, until 1944, over the Brooklyn Bridge to the Park Row Terminal in Manhattan.

For the bus, formerly streetcar, line along Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, see B54 (New York City bus).

BMT Myrtle Avenue Line

City of New York

Metropolitan Avenue
west of Central Avenue

Rapid transit

New York City Subway

New York City Transit Authority

29,422^[1]

1889–1915

1969 (segment west of Central Avenue)

Street level (Metropolitan Avenue only)
Elevated

4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)

600V DC third rail

"The New Road Opened", , April 11, 1888, page 8

The New York Times

"City and Suburban News", The New York Times, April 28, 1889, page 6

"New of the Railroads", The New York Times, January 9, 1896, page 15

"Park Row to Sheepshead Bay", The New York Times, June 19, 1898, page 5

"1,200 on Last Trip on Myrtle Ave. El; Cars Are Stripped", The New York Times, October 4, 1969, page 23

"Brooklyn Elevated", James Clifford Greller, Xplorer Press, 2017

. nycsubway.org. Retrieved January 25, 2009.

"System Map, 1948"

. nycsubway.org. Archived from the original on January 23, 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2009.

"BMT Myrtle Avenue Line"

. Station Reporter. Archived from the original on June 9, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2009.

BMT Myrtle Avenue Line