Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 168th Street was the terminal station on the demolished section of the BMT Jamaica Line. It had two tracks and one island platform. This station was built as part of the Dual Contracts[citation needed]. It opened December 2, 1916, seventeen years after the closing of Canal Street Station along the Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit line, and closed on September 10, 1977. The next stop to the south was 160th Street. It was closed in anticipation of the Archer Avenue Subway, and due to political pressure in the area.Unlike 160th Street and Sutphin Boulevard stations which were demolished in 1979, one building that was part of the station still remains standing on the southeast corner of 165th Street and Jamaica Avenue. It is now a block of local storefronts, and the tower from the station can still be seen today.The elevated line through Jamaica was replaced in 1988 by the underground Archer Avenue Line, but it does not extend east to 168th Street. The closest subway stations to this former station is Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer, at Parsons Boulevard, which is eight blocks west and one block south on 160th Street, as well as the existing 169th Street station which is four blocks to the north on Hillside Avenue.. }
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- 168th_Street_(BMT_Jamaica_Line) abstract "168th Street was the terminal station on the demolished section of the BMT Jamaica Line. It had two tracks and one island platform. This station was built as part of the Dual Contracts[citation needed]. It opened December 2, 1916, seventeen years after the closing of Canal Street Station along the Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit line, and closed on September 10, 1977. The next stop to the south was 160th Street. It was closed in anticipation of the Archer Avenue Subway, and due to political pressure in the area.Unlike 160th Street and Sutphin Boulevard stations which were demolished in 1979, one building that was part of the station still remains standing on the southeast corner of 165th Street and Jamaica Avenue. It is now a block of local storefronts, and the tower from the station can still be seen today.The elevated line through Jamaica was replaced in 1988 by the underground Archer Avenue Line, but it does not extend east to 168th Street. The closest subway stations to this former station is Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer, at Parsons Boulevard, which is eight blocks west and one block south on 160th Street, as well as the existing 169th Street station which is four blocks to the north on Hillside Avenue.".