Metropolitan Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)

Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops in station at all times
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops late nights only
	Stops late nights and weekdays only
	Stops late nights and weekends only
	Stops weekends and weekend late nights
	Stops weekdays and weekday late nights
	Stops weekdays only
	Stops weekends only
	Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction
	Stops all times except weekdays in the peak direction
	Stops daily except rush hours in the peak direction
	Stops rush hours only
	Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
	Station is closed
(Details about time periods)

Metropolitan Avenue was a station on the demolished section of the BMT Jamaica Line. It had two tracks and two side platforms, with space for a third track in the center. A short stretch of third track was added for use as a lay-up or storage track, along with a scissor crossover near the temporary Queens Boulevard terminal in 1976, in anticipation of the line being cut back from 168th Street. This station was built as part of the Dual Contracts.^[4] It opened on July 3, 1918^[2] by the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad, an affiliate of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, nineteen years after the closing of Canal Street Station along the Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit line,^[1] and closed on April 15, 1985, with the Q49 bus replacing it until December 11, 1988.^[3] with the Q49 bus replacing it. The bus was abandoned when the rest of the Jamaica Line was connected to the Archer Avenue Subway.

Both Metropolitan Avenue and Queens Boulevard stations were demolished in late 1990. However on December 11, 1988, the MTA opened the Jamaica – Van Wyck subway station directly underneath the site of the former Metropolitan Avenue elevated station. This served as the replacement station for both Metropolitan Avenue and Queens Boulevard.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 New York Times, New Subway Line, July 7, 1918, page 30
↑ 2.0 2.1
- "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" (July 2, 1918). New York Times Company. July 2, 1918. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
- "'L' Trains Now Run Through to Jamaica" (PDF) (July 4, 1918). Leader Observer (Queens/Brooklyn, NY). July 4, 1918. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
- 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.
↑ 3.0 3.1 The New York Transit Authority in the 1980s, nycsubway.org
↑ Subway FAQ: A Brief History of the Subway

External links

nycsubway.org—BMT Jamaica Line: Metropolitan Avenue
nycsubway.org—BMT Jamaica Line:

New York City Subway stations

Jamaica Line	Demolished stations Broadway Ferry Driggs Avenue [← to Essex Street, Nassau St. Line] Marcy Avenue Hewes Street Lorimer Street Flushing Avenue Park Avenue (demolished) Myrtle Avenue Kosciuszko Street Gates Avenue Halsey Street Chauncey Street Broadway Junction [~~to Atlantic Avenue, Canarsie Line →~~] Alabama Avenue Van Siclen Avenue Cleveland Street Norwood Avenue Crescent Street Cypress Hills 75th Street – Elderts Lane 85th Street – Forest Parkway Woodhaven Boulevard 104th Street 111th Street 121st Street [to Sutphin Boulevard, Archer Avenue Lines →] Demolished stations Metropolitan Avenue Queens Boulevard Sutphin Boulevard 160th Street 168th Street

See also: List by borough (The Bronx • Brooklyn • Manhattan • Queens) • Accessible • Closed • Terminals • Transfer Stations in italics are closed or demolished. Track connections to other lines' terminals are displayed in brackets. ~~Struck through~~ passenger track connections are closed or unused in regular service.