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The Vanderbilt Avenue station was a station on the now-demolished
BMT Myrtle Avenue Line The Myrtle Avenue Line, also called the Myrtle Avenue Elevated, is a fully elevated line of the New York City Subway as part of the BMT division. The line is the last surviving remnant of one of the original Brooklyn elevated railroads. The rem ...
and
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in
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,
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. It had two tracks and one
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. It closed on October 4, 1969, along with the rest of the elevated structure, after a fire. The next stop to the north was
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, and to the south was Navy Street.


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* {{NYCS stations navbox, myrtle=yes Defunct BMT Myrtle Avenue Line stations Former elevated and subway stations in Brooklyn Railway stations in the United States opened in 1888 Railway stations closed in 1969 1888 establishments in New York (state) 1969 disestablishments in New York (state) Defunct New York City Subway stations located aboveground