160th Street was a
station on the demolished section of the
BMT Jamaica Line. It had three tracks and two
side platforms. This station was built as part of the
Dual Contracts. It opened on July 3, 1918, thirteen years after the closing of
New York Avenue Station along the Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit line, and closed on September 10, 1977, with the Q49 bus replacing it until December 11, 1988. 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. The next stop to the north was
168th Street. The next stop to the south was
Sutphin Boulevard. It was closed in anticipation of the
Archer Avenue Subway, and due to political pressure in the area.