| Type: | former |
| Metropolitan Avenue | |
| Address: | Metropolitan Avenue & Jamaica Avenue Queens, NY 11418 |
| Borough: | Queens |
| Locale: | Richmond Hill |
| Coordinates: | 40.7024°N -73.8172°W |
| Division: | BMT |
| Line: | BMT Jamaica Line |
| Service Custom: | None (demolished) |
| Platforms: | 2 side platforms |
| Tracks: | 2 |
| Structure: | Elevated |
| Open Date: | [1] |
| Next North: | Queens Boulevard (demolished) |
| Next South: | 121st Street |
The Metropolitan Avenue station was a 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, until it was closed in 1985. The next stop to the south was 121st Street.
This station was built as part of the Dual Contracts.[2] It opened on July 3, 1918[3] by the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad, an affiliate of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, after the removal of Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit service from Dunton LIRR station, and closed on April 15, 1985, with the Q49 bus replacing it until December 11, 1988.[4] The Q49 bus was discontinued when the rest of the Jamaica Line was connected to the 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.
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 terminal in 1976, in anticipation of the line being cut back from 168th Street.