This section included the stations at 169th Street, Parsons Boulevard, Sutphin Boulevard, and Briarwood. On December 23, 1930, the contract for the construction of the section between 137th Street (now the Van Wyck Expressway) and 178th Street-Route 108, Section 11-was let. Construction of the line was approved by the New York City Board of Estimate on October 4, 1928. The Queens Boulevard Line was one of the first built by the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), and was planned to stretch between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 178th Street and Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. This had been the closest subway station to the Long Island Rail Road's Jamaica station after the removal of a portion of the Jamaica Elevated in 1977. Ridership at this station decreased sharply after the opening of the Archer Avenue lines in 1988. In 1953, the platforms at the station were extended to accommodate 11-car trains. This station opened on Apas part of an extension of the Independent Subway System's Queens Boulevard Line. A red-painted arrow at the station directing riders to the Long Island Rail Road
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