Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue station

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The station originally opened on October 1, 1906, to serve the adjacent Lutheran cemetery. It was part of an extension of the line past Wyckoff Avenue along a former steam dummy surface line.{{cite web|title=New L Train Service to Lutheran Cemetery: B.R.T. Opens a Line To-morrow That Takes Passengers Into Queens County.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/53880310/?terms=%22metropolitan%2Bavenue%22|via=Newspapers.com|newspaper=Brooklyn Daily Eagle|access-date=September 28, 2015|page=33|date=September 30, 1906}} A second station, west of the original facility, opened on August 9, 1915, with the other former surface stations having been recently elevated. This station was relocated due to the original being located in the right-of-way of the then-future New York Connecting Railroad. On July 16, 1974, a fire completely destroyed the original wooden platform and station house along with three R27 cars and one R30 car, along with some fire damage done to four R32 cars, and the station had to be completely rebuilt.{{cite web|title=12 Passengers Led to Safety After Fire On Train Platform|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/07/17/79335819.pdf|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 28, 2015|date=July 17, 1974}} It reopened in 1980 with the current concrete platform and brick stationhouse.

By railroad and service directions, the station is the southern terminal of both the Myrtle Avenue Line and full-length M train. It was the northern terminal of the M train by service direction before its reroute on June 27, 2010.{{cite web|title=Memorandum: Modifications to 2010 NYC Transit Service Reductions|url=http://web.mta.info/news/pdf/NYCT_Summary_of_Revisions.pdf|website=mta.info|publisher=MTA New York City Transit Authority|access-date=August 23, 2015|date=March 19, 2010}}{{cite news |title=Under a New Subway Plan, the V Stands for Vanished |first=Michael M. |last=Grynbaum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/nyregion/20train.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 19, 2010 |access-date=March 20, 2010}}{{cite web|title=2010 NYC Transit Service Reductions|url=http://mta.info/mta/news/books/pdf/100125_1031_service2010-nyct.pdf|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=August 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125214330/http://mta.info/mta/news/books/pdf/100125_1031_service2010-nyct.pdf|archive-date=November 25, 2010|date=January 27, 2010|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Review of the G Line|url=http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/G_LineReview_7_10_13.pdf|website=mta.info|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=August 2, 2015|date=July 10, 2013}} Even though this is the M{{'s}} southern terminal by railroad direction, the service's late-night terminus, Myrtle Avenue, is geographically further south, but the weekend and weekday terminals at Essex Street and Forest Hills–71st Avenue, respectively, are geographically further north.

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The station, built on an embankment with the north end at street level, has two tracks and a concrete island platform with benches. The tracks end at bumper blocks at the north end of the platform. A steel canopy with fluorescent lights and supported by silver columns covers the entire platform.

On the side of the westernmost track opposite from the platform is an employee-only facility. The control tower for the Myrtle Avenue Line is at the south end of the platform. Just to the south of the station lies the Fresh Pond Yard. It is only accessible from this station, so trains coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn must first enter the station, then reverse into the yard.

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The grade-level station house, the station's only entrance, is located at the eastern corner of Rentar Plaza and Metropolitan Avenue. It is made of bricks with glass windows. There are two pairs of doors leading to the platform, turnstile bank and token booth. Also, there are two pairs of doors out to the street corner and another door along Metropolitan Avenue. Because the station house is at ground level and the platform extends out of the station house, this station is fully ADA-accessible, without an elevator or ramp.{{cite web|title=NYC Official Accessibility Guide|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/mopd/downloads/pdf/accessibility_guide.pdf|website=nyc.gov|publisher=City of New York|access-date=September 20, 2015|date=2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807065656/http://www.nyc.gov/html/mopd/downloads/pdf/accessibility_guide.pdf|archive-date=August 7, 2015|df=mdy-all}}

The New York Connecting Railroad travels in an open-cut, directly east of and parallel to the station. A station on the planned Interborough Express light-rail line, which will use the New York Connecting Railroad right of way, has been proposed next to the existing subway station.{{cite web | last=Brachfeld | first=Ben | title=MTA looking to dig tunnel underneath Queens cemetery for IBX light rail project | website=amNewYork | date=October 29, 2024 | url=https://www.amny.com/nyc-transit/mta-tunnel-queens-cemetery-ibx-light-rail/ | access-date=January 31, 2025}}{{cite news|url=https://new.mta.info/document/103686|date=January 2023|title=The Interborough Express: Planning & Environmental Linkages Study|publisher=MTA}}

A little further east is Christ the King Regional High School. Directly to the west of the station is Metro Mall, a large shopping mall opened in the early 1970s with now relatively few stores.{{Cite web |date=2003-07-09 |title=TIMES NEWSWEEKLY/OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THE WAY IT WAS |url=http://www.timesnewsweekly.com/Archives2002/Jul.-Sept.2002/082202/NewFiles/OURNEIGH.html |access-date=2022-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030709230931/http://www.timesnewsweekly.com/Archives2002/Jul.-Sept.2002/082202/NewFiles/OURNEIGH.html |archive-date=July 9, 2003 }} The station is located at Metropolitan Avenue's intersection with Rentar Plaza, which is the access road to the mall's parking lots.{{cite web|title=SUBWAY-SIDEWALK INTERFACE PROJECT TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM IV ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES|url=http://www.transalt.org/sites/default/files/resources/otherreports/subwaysidewalk/techmemo4/Issues%20and%20Opportunities.pdf#page=147|website=transalt.org|publisher=New York City Department of City Planning|access-date=December 6, 2015|date=November 2000}} The Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery is located across Metropolitan Avenue and near the eastern side of the station.{{cite book|author=Dave Frattini|title=The Underground Guide to New York City Subways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a71ZAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT213|date=May 27, 2014|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-4668-7249-3|pages=213–}}{{cite web|title=MTA Neighborhood Maps: Ridgewood|url=http://web.mta.info/maps/neighborhoods/qns/Q7%20Ridgewood2015.pdf|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=September 28, 2015|date=2015}}

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• {{NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?214:1991|BMT Myrtle Avenue Line|Metropolitan Avenue}}
• Station Reporter — [https://web.archive.org/web/20100922060746/http://www.stationreporter.net/mxtrain.htm M train]
• The Subway Nut — [http://www.subwaynut.com/bmt/metropolitanm/index.php Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue Pictures]
• [https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.712297,-73.889365&spn=0.006156,0.011061&layer=c&cbll=40.712294,-73.889374&panoid=zdFRzdv_wncJWZSW9TiFdw&cbp=12,149,,0,0.52&t=m&z=17 Metropolitan Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View]
• [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7122498,-73.8892822,3a,75y,196.88h,87.11t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1s-g93WjXN0R1E%2FWFyymumhx3I%2FAAAAAAAAWBY%2FD7Nfiwr5zPcEbWFlbI0EWxy0welpJRz9ACLIB!2e4!3e11!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2F-g93WjXN0R1E%2FWFyymumhx3I%2FAAAAAAAAWBY%2FD7Nfiwr5zPcEbWFlbI0EWxy0welpJRz9ACLIB%2Fw203-h100-p-k-no%2F!7i9728!8i4864!4m3!8m2!3m1!1e1 Platform from Google Maps Street View]

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