Here are some photos I took back in the late 1980s of the demolition of the stations at the end of the Jamaica BMT line. There were 5 stations in all. The new terminus for the line was the Archer Avenue extension.
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At first glance I thought the photo was of the current Liberty Av el. Thanks for the flashback.
It's a shame they never finished the Archer extension to Rosedale, as they planned. At least there's a free transfer now between the Jamaica and Queens Blvd. lines.
Archer Avenue's two new stations opened in 1989, and two decades later, the ceilings are dripping water and covered with dust. What a disgrace! Plus, the underground only reaches to 160th Street, while the old El reached to 168th.
the jamaica el should have never been torn down originally it was to be extended to about 180th street because it was to be linked with extension of the liberty ave el. jamiaca ave crumbled and almost never recovered because of the loss of the el . stores shut down because now they had no direct accsess to the shopping area on the ave people were drawn away because now they had to walk from the e and f on hillside ave blocks away from the shpping district. this lasted for ten years until the archer ave line opened. if the el above jamaica ave would have never been torn down maybe the big stores would have never left. after they had planed to tear down the el in 77 they actually had second thoughts about as month after they closed down the section be 121 and 168 . they listned to the merchants and the merchants alaong jamaica ave would soon regret that decision when they lost business and would have to shut down.
The Jamaica el was closed in two segments. The first closed in September 1977, from Sutphin Blvd to the original terminal at 168th St. This section was torn down quickly, the work actually beginning before the line was closed! Queens Blvd became the temporary terminal, until April 1985 when the next two stations were closed. This segment of the el survived demolition until the second half of 1990. The last piece, over the LIRR main line, was finally removed in March 1991.
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6 comments:
At first glance I thought the photo was of the current Liberty Av el. Thanks for the flashback.
It's a shame they never finished the Archer extension to Rosedale, as they planned. At least there's a free transfer now between the Jamaica and Queens Blvd. lines.
So is Jamaica any better then it was back then? Has the money sunk into it achieved anything?
Archer Avenue's two new stations opened in 1989, and two decades later, the ceilings are dripping water and covered with dust. What a disgrace! Plus, the underground only reaches to 160th Street, while the old El reached to 168th.
the jamaica el should have never been torn down originally it was to be extended to about 180th street because it was to be linked with extension of the liberty ave el. jamiaca ave crumbled and almost never recovered because of the loss of the el . stores shut down because now they had no direct accsess to the shopping area on the ave people were drawn away because now they had to walk from the e and f on hillside ave blocks away from the shpping district. this lasted for ten years until the archer ave line opened. if the el above jamaica ave would have never been torn down maybe the big stores would have never left. after they had planed to tear down the el in 77 they actually had second thoughts about as month after they closed down the section be 121 and 168 . they listned to the merchants and the merchants alaong jamaica ave would soon regret that decision when they lost business and would have to shut down.
The Jamaica el was closed in two segments. The first closed in September 1977, from Sutphin Blvd to the original terminal at 168th St. This section was torn down quickly, the work actually beginning before the line was closed! Queens Blvd became the temporary terminal, until April 1985 when the next two stations were closed. This segment of the el survived demolition until the second half of 1990. The last piece, over the LIRR main line, was finally removed in March 1991.
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