BROOKLYN — Starting Monday, Flatbush residents will lose access to the Ditmas Avenue F train stop to allow four months of repair work, the MTA announced Friday.
The stop will be closed until May and all Coney Island-bound trains will bypass the stop until then.
The Ditmas Avenue facelift is part of a multi-station renewal and repair project expected to cost about $80.7 million. The work will consist of repairs to the steel station structure as well as improvements to the platform stairs, walls and floors, among other repairs, officials said.
The northbound platform at the station, which opened in 1919, will remain open. Straphangers who use the Ditmas stop can instead get off at Church Avenue or 18th Avenue.
The Ditmas Avenue stop wasn't on the recently revealed list of planned station closures announced by the governor.
"This project is funded in the previous capital program and is independent of the Governor's Station Enhancement Initiative," MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said in an email.
Update: This story has been updated with comment from the MTA. Originally the story said the agency did not respond to a request for comment, but the email request failed to send.
