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Central Avenue is a Myrtle Avenue elevated station that's seen better days and could definitely use a renovation. The station has two side platforms for the two track line that has space for a third track between the two existing tracks. Each platform has a single staircase down towards its northern end to a small station house, from this station house two staircases lead down to either side of Myrtle Avenue just south of where Ceder Street ends at a diagonal at Myrtle Avenue, and a very short distance south from the 6-way intersection of Myrtle Avenue, DeKalb Avenue, and Central Avenue.

The station's platforms are fairly wide for most of there lengths and are canopied. The Manhattan-bound platform has the standard metal corrugated windscreen while Queens-bound platform has a simple fairly low-fence that has an extremely old fashioned design, but a windscreen for a smaller portion of the platform. At the extreme ends of the platforms (probably where they were extended) their completely exposed to the elements and quite a bit narrower with this same unusual low fence.

The station closed at 12:01am on March 9, 2013 for a full renovation. It was scheduled to reopen on August 12, 2013 (according to signs posted by the contractor) but didn't reopen until 4:00pm on Friday, August 16, 2013. Passengers used the B54 (with a special shuttle bus overnight) or walk from Knickerbocker or Myrtle Avenue-Broadway. This renovation added modern green and cream colored windscreens along the lengths of both platforms, (with mesh windows in areas providing some views off the elevated structure) a renovated station house and renovated street stairs down to the same two locations as before.
Photos 1-16: December 2, 2005; 17-40: June 30, 2009; 41-72: March 8, 2013; 73-84: June 15, 2014

Art For Transit at

Arts For Transit at Central Avenue

Generation Dynamica, 2013,
Stainless steel
By Gorge Bates

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