160th Street station

New York City Subway station in Queens (closed 1977) February 2025 February 2025 former 160th Street Jam Av 160 St jeh.jpg Site, 30 years after demolition Jamaica Avenue and 160th StreetQueens, New York 11433 Queens Jamaica 40 42 13.1 N 73 47 57 W inline,title BMT BMT Jamaica Line None (demolished) 2 side platforms 3 Elevated 1918 07 03The New York Times, New Subway Line, July 7, 1918, page 30 1977 09 10 168th Street (demolished) Sutphin Boulevard (demolished) yes The 160th Street station was a station on the demolished section of the BMT Jamaica Line in Queens, New York City. History This station was built as part of the Dual Contracts.http://www.nycsubway.org/faq/briefhist.html Subway FAQ: A Brief History of the Subway April 22, 2015 November 26, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101126214736/http://nycsubway.org/faq/briefhist.html dead It opened on July 3, 1918,Open New Subway To Regular Traffic; First Train on Seventh Avenue Line Carries Mayor and Other Officials ... New Extensions of Elevated Railroad Service ... Currents of Travel to Change https://www.nytimes.com/1918/07/02/archives/open-new-subway-to-regular-traffic-first-train-on-seventh-avenue.html April 23, 2015 July 2, 1918 The New York Times July 2, 1918 'L' Trains Now Run Through to Jamaica https://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2023/Forest%20Parkway%20NY%20Leader%20Observer/Forest%20Parkway%20NY%20Leader%20Observer%201918-1920/Forest%20Parkway%20NY%20Leader%20Observer%201918-1920%20-%200213.pdf April 23, 2015 July 4, 1918 1 Leader Observer (Queens/Brooklyn, NY) July 4, 1918 Report of the Public Service Commission for the First District of the State of New York, Volume 1 January 10, 1919 New York State Public Service Commission 61,71,285,286 https://books.google.com/books?id=sXhCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA7 April 23, 2015 thirteen years after the closing of New York Avenue Station along the Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit line. During its early years, it had connections to five different trolley companies; the New York and Long Island Traction Company, the Long Island Electric Railway, the Manhattan and Queens Traction Company, the New York and Queens County Railway, and the Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation and its predecessors.Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island by Stephen L. Meyers, (2006) This station closed on September 10, 1977, with the Q49 bus replacing it until December 11, 1988,The New York Transit Authority in the 1970s, nycsubway.org in anticipation of the Archer Avenue Subway and due to political pressure in the area. This station along with the 168th Street and Sutphin Boulevard stations was demolished in 1979. It was replaced by the Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer station, which opened on December 11, 1988. Between the closing of the el station and its replacement subway station, the existing Parsons Boulevard station, four blocks to the north on Hillside Avenue, served as a temporary substitute. Station layout This elevated station had three tracks and two side platforms. References External links http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?192:76 BMT Jamaica Line 160th Street http://www.nycsubway.org/lines/jamaica.html BMT Jamaica Line yes Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1916 Category:1916 establishments in New York City Category:Defunct BMT Jamaica Line stations Category:1977 disestablishments in New York City Category:1918 establishments in New York City Category:Former elevated and subway stations in Queens, New York Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1977