^ "J Line - Weekday and Weekend Planned Service Change Update". ![]() ^ "Critical Structural Repairs Scheduled for 111 St Station on J Line".^ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2014–2019".^ a b The New York Times, New Subway Line: Affords a Five-Cent Fare Between Manhattan and Jamaica, L.I., July 7, 1918, page 30.New York State Public Service Commission. Report of the Public Service Commission for the First District of the State of New York, Volume 1."Jamaica Avenue 'L' is an Old Story Already" (PDF).Nearly Two and a Half Miles Ready for Operation Tonight". Archived from the original (PDF) on Febru. Second Avenue Subway Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) (PDF). The station house is now used for storage and offices. The staircase to 113th Street was removed, but the elevated station house beneath the tracks and single staircase to each platform remain boarded up and intact. This station formerly had another entrance/exit at the east (railroad north) end. Outside fare control, there is a turnstile bank, token booth, and two staircases going down to either eastern corners of Jamaica Avenue and 111th Street. Inside fare control, there is a single staircase to each platform at their south ends and a waiting area that allows a free transfer between directions. The station's only entrance/exit is an elevated station house beneath the tracks. It resembles a human face when viewed from the street and is also featured on four other stations on the BMT Jamaica Line. The 1990 artwork here is called Five Points of Observation by Kathleen McCarthy. Station signs are in the standard black with white lettering. ![]() īoth platforms have beige windscreens for their entire lengths and brown canopies with green frames and support columns except for a small section at the west ( railroad south) end. The track was also used to store trains while the Jamaica Line was being torn down north of 121st Street and the Archer Avenue Line was being built. It was formerly used to turn trains for the BMT Lexington Avenue Elevated trains from 1917 until 1950. The center track dead ends at bumper blocks on both sides of the station and has connections to both local tracks. This elevated station has three tracks and two side platforms. → toward Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer ( Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport PM rush, 121st Street other times) →įare control, station agent, MetroCard machines ← toward Broad Street ( 104th Street AM rush, Woodhaven Boulevard other times) ![]() Unlike the repairs done at 121st Street and 104th Street, which were done one platform at a time, both platforms were closed simultaneously to cut the work from 12 months to 6 months as a result, the station reopened on June 11, 2019. As part of the work, the trackside girders and the platforms were replaced. The station was temporarily closed on Janufor six months of structural repairs. This station was opened on by the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad, an affiliate of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, replacing Cypress Hills as the line's terminus. The Z train skips this station when it operates. Located at the intersection of 111th Street and Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens, it is served at all times by the J train. The 111th Street station is a skip-stop station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction
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