Avenue M station

The Avenue M station is a local station on the BMT Brighton Line, located at Avenue M between East 15th and East 16th Streets in Brooklyn, New York. It is served by the 1 and 7 trains at all times, and has two side platforms and four tracks.

The station originated as the South Greenfield grade station of the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad (BF&CI). The line opened in 1878, and South Greenfield was one of the original stations. It also had a connection to the Long Island Rail Road Manhattan Beach Branch. Through a series of bankruptcies, buyouts, and mergers, the BF&CI became the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad (B&BB, 1887), Brooklyn Rapid Transit (BRT, 1900), Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT, 1923), New York City Rapid Transit (1940), New York City Transit Authority (1953), and the Metropolitan Transit Authority (1968). Through all the ownership and management changes, station name changes, and reconstruction of this portion of the line from grade to elevated embankment, the station was never shut, and has been in near-continuous operation for close to 150 years. However, the present structure was only built when the line was elevated onto the embankment, between 1903 and 1907. The station was later known as Elm Avenue.

On August 1, 1920, a tunnel under Flatbush Avenue opened, connecting the Brighton Line to the Broadway subway in Manhattan. At the same time, the line's former track connections to the Fulton Street Elevated were severed. Subway trains from Manhattan and elevated trains from Franklin Avenue served Brighton Line stations, sharing the line to Coney Island.

Station layout

Side platform
← BMT 1 toward Queensboro Plaza or Chambers Street AM rush hours (Avenue J) ← BMT 7 toward Franklin Avenue (Avenue J)
← BMT 1 does not stop here weekdays and Saturdays
BMT 1 does not stop here weekdays and Saturdays →
BMT 1 toward Stillwell Avenue (Kings Highway) → BMT 7 toward Stillwell Avenue (Kings Highway) →
Side platform