This station was built as part of the Dual Contracts.

[7] It opened on July 3, 1918,[3][4][5] thirteen years after the closing of New York Avenue Station along the Atlantic Avenue Rapid Transit line.

[2] During its early years, it had connections to five different trolley companies; the New York and Long Island Traction Company, the Long Island Electric Railway, the Manhattan and Queens Traction Company, the New York and Queens County Railway, and the Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation and its predecessors.

[8] This station closed on September 10, 1977, with the Q49 bus replacing it until December 11, 1988,[6] in anticipation of the Archer Avenue Subway and due to political pressure in the area.

This elevated station had three tracks and two side platforms.