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{{Short description|New York City Subway station in Queens (closed 1985)}}
{{other uses|Metropolitan Avenue (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox NYCS | type = former
| name = Metropolitan Avenue
| image =
| image_caption = R-7A J Train Leaving Metropoltian Avenue in the 1970s
| accessible = 
| address = [[Metropolitan Avenue]] and [[Jamaica Avenue]]<br>Queens, New York 11418
| borough = [[Queens]]
| locale = [[Richmond Hill, Queens|Richmond Hill]]
| coordinates = {{coord|40|42|8.6|N|73|49|2|W|region:US|display=inline,title}}
| division = BMT
| line = [[BMT Jamaica Line]]
| service_custom = None (demolished)
| platforms = 2 [[side platform]]s
| tracks = 2
| structure = Elevated
| passengers = 
| pass_year = 
| pass_percent = 
| rank = 
| open_date = {{start date and age|1918|07|03}}<ref name=168th>[[New York Times]], [https://www.nytimes.com/1918/07/07/archives/new-subway-line-affords-a-fivecent-fare-between-manhattan-and.html New Subway Line], July 7, 1918, page 30</ref><ref name="one"/>
| close_date = {{start date and age|1985|04|15}}<ref name=nycsub2/>
| next_north = [[Queens Boulevard (BMT Jamaica Line)|Queens Boulevard]] (demolished)
| next_south = [[121st Street (BMT Jamaica Line)|121st Street]]
}}

The '''Metropolitan Avenue station''' was a [[metro station|station]] on the demolished section of the [[BMT Jamaica Line]] in [[Queens]], [[New York City]]. It opened in 1918 and closed in 1985 in anticipation of the opening of the [[Archer Avenue lines]]. The next stop to the north was [[Queens Boulevard station|Queens Boulevard]], until it was closed in 1985. The next stop to the south was [[121st Street station (BMT Jamaica Line)|121st Street.]]

== History ==
This station was built as part of the [[Dual Contracts]].<ref name="nycsub">[http://www.nycsubway.org/faq/briefhist.html Subway FAQ: A Brief History of the Subway]</ref> It opened on July 3, 1918<ref name="one">*{{cite news|title=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 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D02E0DA173BE033A25751C0A9619C946996D6CF |accessdate=April 23, 2015 |issue=July 2, 1918 |publisher=New York Times Company |date=July 2, 1918 }}
*{{cite news|title='L' Trains Now Run Through to Jamaica |url=http://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 |accessdate=April 23, 2015 |issue=July 4, 1918 |publisher=Leader Observer (Queens/Brooklyn, NY) |date=July 4, 1918 }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*{{cite book|title=Report of the Public Service Commission for the First District of the State of New York, Volume 1 |date=January 10, 1919 |publisher=New York State Public Service Commission |pages=61,71,285,286 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXhCAQAAMAAJ&q=%2B%22Report+of+the+Public+Service+Commission%22+%2B%22First+District+of+the+State+of+New+York%22+%2B%22Volume+1%22+%2B%22ending+December+31,+1918%22&pg=PA7 |accessdate=April 23, 2015 }}</ref> by the [[Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad]]<!--and/or [[New York Municipal Railway]]-->, an affiliate of the [[Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company]], after the removal of [[Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit]] service from [[Dunton (LIRR station)|Dunton LIRR station]],<ref name="168th" /> and closed on April 15, 1985, with the Q49 bus replacing it until December 11, 1988.<ref name="nycsub2">[http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_New_York_Transit_Authority_in_the_1980s The New York Transit Authority in the 1980s], nycsubway.org</ref>  The Q49 bus was discontinued when the rest of the Jamaica Line was connected to the [[Archer Avenue Line|Archer Avenue Subway]].

Both the Metropolitan Avenue and Queens Boulevard stations were demolished in late 1990. The [[Jamaica–Van Wyck station]], opened on December 11, 1988, is directly underneath the site of the former Metropolitan Avenue station and replaces the two former Jamaica Line stations.
[[File:Jamaica Av Metropolitan Av jeh.jpg|left|thumb|Site, 20 years after demolition. The entrance to Jamaica - Van Wyck can be seen in the background.]]

== Station layout ==
This elevated station 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 (BMT Jamaica Line)|Queens Boulevard]] terminal in 1976, in anticipation of the line being cut back from [[168th Street (BMT Jamaica Line)|168th Street]].
 
== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?192:3239|BMT Jamaica Line|Metropolitan Avenue}}
* {{NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/lines/jamaica.html|BMT Jamaica Line|}}

{{Jamaica, Queens}}
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[[Category:Defunct BMT Jamaica Line stations]]
[[Category:1985 disestablishments in New York (state)]]
[[Category:1918 establishments in New York City]]
[[Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1916]]
[[Category:Former elevated and subway stations in Queens, New York]]
[[Category:Jamaica, Queens]]
[[Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1985]]


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