Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue (M)

Fresh Pond Road is one of the most unusual subway stations. The stop is located on an elevated structure, on the portion of the Myrtle Avenue that was formerly built as the grade level Lutheran Cemetery Line. This legacy of the lines former grade level means it interrupts the street grid and isn't an elevated built over a street. Beneath most of the station is MTA property specifically the entrance to the Fresh Pond Bus Depot. The station itself has an island platform for the two track line.

The station has two entrances each of witch are quite close to each other geographically but far apart unless someone cuts through the station outside of fare control to reach them. One is a gradual ramp up from Fresh Pond Road. This leads up a small staircase and a High Exit Turnstile down from it's own staircase down from the platform. During the 2013 station renovations, this high exit only tursntile was replaced by regular turnstiles, giving the station an additional entrance. This passagway continues to one set of doors and into the station house. The other entrance is in are two gaps in the chain link fence where two short staircase of four steps leads up to a passageway at the dead end of 62 Street. From here stairs lead up to another entrance into the stations small station house, after the turnstiles, two staircases lead up to the platform.
Photos 1-16: June 1, 2009;