Queens Boulevard 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. This station was built as part of the Dual Contracts. It opened December 12, 1916. The next stop to the north was Sutphin Boulevard. The next stop to the south was Metropolitan Avenue. It was closed because the rest of the Jamaica Line had to be connected to the Archer Avenue Subway.
The Queens Boulevard station was the temporary terminal for the Jamaica Avenue Line from 1977 until April 15, 1985, when the station closed and the line was cut back to 121st Street. When Queens Boulevard was the temporary terminal for the Jamaica Avenue Line, the tracks continued east of this station as lay-up tracks. The lay-up tracks went as far as Sutphin Boulevard.
Both Metropolitan Avenue and Queens Boulevard stations were demolished in late 1990. However on December 11, 1988, the MTA opened the nearby Jamaica – Van Wyck subway station, which served as their replacement station.
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““Your strength, that is so lofty and fierce and kind,
It might call up a new age, calling to mind
The queens that were imagined long ago,
Is but half yours....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting
In diluted gold bars across the boulevard brag
Of proud, seamed faces with mercy and murder hinting
here, there, interrupting, all deep and debonair,
The pink paint on the innocence of fear;
Walk in a gingerly manner up the hall.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)