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Seneca Avenue
Seneca Avenue
New York City Subway station (rapid transit)
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°W
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Myrtle Avenue Line
Services	M (all times)
Transit	NYCT Bus: B13, B38, Q58
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	February 22, 1915; 109 years ago
Closed	July 1, 2017; 6 years ago (temporary line closure)
Reopened	September 1, 2017; 6 years ago
Opposite-; direction; transfer	Yes
Traffic
2022	531,329 13.9%
Rank	372 out of 423
Services
Services
Location
Track layout
	Legend
Street map
Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times

The Seneca Avenue station 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. The station opened in 1915 as part of the Dual Contracts.

History edit

This station opened on February 22, 1915, by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company as part of a project to elevate a portion of the Myrtle Avenue Line, which had run at street level. This work was completed as part of the Dual Contracts.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Station layout edit

Platform level	Westbound	← toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue weekdays, Essex Street weekends, Myrtle Avenue late nights (Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues)
	Island platform
	Eastbound	→ toward Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue (Forest Avenue) →
Mezzanine		Fare control, station agent, MetroCard machines
Ground	Street level	Exit/entrance

This elevated station has two tracks and an island platform. The platform has a steel canopy supported by black and green columns in the center.

NE corner entrance

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 edit

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.^[7]

References edit

^ "Glossary". Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). Vol. 1. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 4, 2003. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
^ "Annual Subway Ridership (2017–2022)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2022. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Annual Subway Ridership (2017–2022)". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2022. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
^ Roess, Roger P.; Sansone, Gene (August 23, 2012). The Wheels That Drove New York: A History of the New York City Transit System. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9783642304842.
^ "Article 11 -- No Title" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
^ Senate, New York (State) Legislature (1916). Documents of the Senate of the State of New York. E. Croswell.
^ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Ridgewood" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2016.