Seneca Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line)

Seneca Avenue
New York City Subway rapid transit station
Station statistics
Address	Seneca Avenue & Palmetto Street Queens, NY 11385
Borough	Queens
Locale	Ridgewood
Coordinates	40°42′10″N 73°54′28″W / 40.702765°N 73.907733°WCoordinates: 40°42′10″N 73°54′28″W / 40.702765°N 73.907733°W
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Myrtle Avenue Line
Services	M  (all times)
Transit connections	New York City Bus: B13, B38
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	August 9, 1915
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	842,069[1]  11.5%
Rank	381 out of 422
Station succession
Preceding station   New York City Subway   Following station Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues toward Myrtle Avenue, Essex Street, or 71st Avenue BMT Myrtle Avenue Line M  Forest Avenue toward Metropolitan Avenue
Station service legend Symbol Description Stops all times
Location

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 71st Avenue (weekdays), Essex Street (weekends), Myrtle Avenue (late nights) (Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Eastbound	→ toward Metropolitan Avenue (Forest Avenue) →
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance

NE corner 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. 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.

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.

References

1. "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2016-04-19.

External links

• Media related to Seneca Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line) at Wikimedia Commons
• nycsubway.org—BMT Myrtle Avenue Line: Seneca Avenue
• Station Reporter — M Train
• The Subway Nut — Seneca Avenue Pictures
• Seneca Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View