The 160th Street station was a station on the demolished section of the

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History

This station was built as part of the

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.Subway FAQ: A Brief History of the Subway
/ref> It opened on July 3, 1918, thirteen years after the closing of New York Avenue Station along the

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line. During its early years, it had connections to five different trolley companies; the

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, the

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, 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. 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

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station, four blocks to the north on Hillside Avenue served as a temporary substitute.

Station layout

This elevated station had three tracks and two

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* * Railway stations in the United States opened in 1916 1916 establishments in New York City Railway stations closed in 1977 Defunct BMT Jamaica Line stations 1977 disestablishments in New York (state) 1918 establishments in New York City Former elevated and subway stations in Queens, New York {{QueensNY-railstation-stub