[3][4] The original station house was sold and converted into an Episcopal Church on 42nd Avenue and Utopia Parkway when a new, elevated station was built between 1929 and 1930, as part of a grade crossing elimination project; this church closed in 1973.

[3][4] By 1997, both Auburndale and the adjacent Murray Hill station had fallen into a state of disrepair.

[5] The station subsequently underwent a significant reconstruction and modernization project between April 2000 and October 2003.

[4][6][7][8] As part of the $5.5 million project, funded in part through monies secured by then-New York State Senator Frank Padavan, included rebuilding the platform and expanding it from six to ten cars in length, new canopies, a new, heated waiting room, and making the station accessible to wheelchair users with the installation of an ADA-accessible elevator.

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