160th Street station

160th Street was a station on the demolished section of the BMT Jamaica Line in Queens, New York City.

 160th Street
 
Former New York City Subway station
Site, 30 years after demolition
Station statistics
AddressJamaica Avenue & 160th Street
Queens, NY 11433
BoroughQueens
LocaleJamaica
Coordinates40°42′13.1″N 73°47′57″W
DivisionB (BMT)
LineBMT Jamaica Line
ServicesNone (demolished)
StructureElevated
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks3
Other information
OpenedJuly 3, 1918 (1918-07-03)[1][2][3][4]
ClosedSeptember 10, 1977 (1977-09-10)[5]
Station succession
Next north168th Street (demolished)
Next southSutphin Boulevard (demolished)

History

This station was built as part of the Dual Contracts.[6] It opened on July 3, 1918,[2][3][4] thirteen years after the closing of New York Avenue Station along the Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit line.[1] 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.[7]

This station closed on September 10, 1977, with the Q49 bus replacing it until December 11, 1988,[5] 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. Nine years after that, the transportation needs in the vicinity of 160th Street were compensated with the opening of the Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer subway station a block west that serves as its replacement station. Between the closing of the el station and the opening of the subway terminal, 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
  1. The New York Times, New Subway Line, July 7, 1918, page 30
  2. "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". The New York Times (July 2, 1918). July 2, 1918. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  3. "'L' Trains Now Run Through to Jamaica" (PDF) (July 4, 1918). Leader Observer (Queens/Brooklyn, NY). July 4, 1918. p. 1. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  4. Report of the Public Service Commission for the First District of the State of New York, Volume 1. New York State Public Service Commission. January 10, 1919. pp. 61, 71, 285, 286. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  5. The New York Transit Authority in the 1970s, nycsubway.org
  6. Subway FAQ: A Brief History of the Subway
  7. Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island by Stephen L. Meyers, (2006)


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