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Myrtle
Wyckoff Complex
Myrtle Avenue (L) features an island
platform. It is a transfer point for the "M"
line, which is reached via an escalator link to
the elevated line above. The mosaic band is set
at eye level, rather than high up on the wall,
with brick red, yellow, tan and light blue
offset by indigo and maroon. Unlike the other
island platform stations, the walls do not have
girders showing. The ceiling is also lower than
those at the other island platform stations.
This station complex is currently undergoing
renovation (2004) by Judlau until 2007. Myrtle
Avenue opened December 14, 1928. New lights are
being installed in the lower Mezzanine and L
platform.
Wyckoff Avenue (M)
Has two tracks and two island platforms which
appear to be in the process of being converted
to a single island platform. Joe Cunningham has
advised that the center trackway once was used
for M trains to Jay Street. After the M was
cutback wooden plans were used to cover the
space and replaced with pipe rail when the wood
wore out. Now it remains as two island platforms
with a railing at the center trackway with
concrete connections at both ends. The station
once had a separate exit to the street at the
South end. Current design suggests a possible
exit was from the crossunder at the North end.
The station also has a mini bus terminal area
Artwork is by
Cadence Giersbach and is entitled From Earth to
Sky and was installed in 2006.
According to the
MTA web site this art work "...depicts
a fantastical view from the station as if one
were looking up through a canopy of foliage
filled with birds and butterflies beneath a sky
that shimmers when light hits the glass mosaic
tiles. The imagery fills the overhead circular
ceiling, providing the viewer with a joyful
visual escape at this busy transit hub. Within
the center, the view is reversed and we see a
birds-eye map view of the city within an
"oculus". The location of the station is
pinpointed, surrounded by the vastness of New
York City."
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