Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station

The plans for the Archer Avenue Lines emerged in the 1960s under the city and MTA's Program for Action. Because of the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, the Archer Avenue Line's construction was delayed. Design on the station started on October 1, 1974, and was completed on February 24, 1982, by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum. Bids on the station's construction were received on July 9, 1982, and the contract was awarded to Carlin-Atlas Corporation for $17.91 million. Work on the station started on July 15, 1982, and opened along with the rest of the Archer Avenue Line on December 11, 1988. In 2003, when the AirTrain opened, this station was renamed as Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport, as the station connects with the AirTrain at Jamaica Station. In 2020, the MTA announced that it would reconstruct the track and third rail on the IND Archer Avenue Line, which had become deteriorated. From September 19 to November 2, 2020, E service was cut back to Jamaica–Van Wyck, with a shuttle bus connecting to Sutphin Boulevard and Jamaica Center. The MTA then announced it would reconstruct the track on the BMT Archer Avenue Line. The work was completed in September 2022. The MTA announced in December 2021 that it would install wide-aisle fare gates for disabled passengers at five subway stations, including Sutphin Boulevard, by mid-2022. The implementation of these fare gates was delayed; the MTA's chief accessibility officer indicated in February 2023 that the new fare gates would be installed at the Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport and stations shortly afterward. Additionally, in February 2022, the MTA announced that the IND platform (but not the BMT platform) would receive platform screen doors as part of a pilot program involving three stations. The announcement came after several people had been shoved onto tracks, including one incident that led to a woman's death at another station. the doors are planned to be installed starting in December 2023 at a cost of $6 million. Designs for the platform doors were being finalized by June 2023. On December 4, 2023, wide aisle turnstiles were installed, making the station the first in the New York City Subway system to have such turnstiles. The station was cleaned and repaired in 2024 as part of the MTA's Re-New-Vation program. ==Station layout==

The Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station contains two levels, each with two tracks and an island platform. The E train serves the upper level (IND) The J and Z trains serve the lower level (BMT); The next stop to the west is Jamaica–Van Wyck for E trains, 121st Street for local J and skip-stop Z trains, and 111th Street for skip-stop J trains. The next stop to the east is Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer. Like the other stations on the Archer Avenue Line, Sutphin Boulevard is fully ADA-accessible. Both platforms are in length, standard for a full-length B Division train. As with other stations constructed as part of the Program for Action, the Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station contained technologically advanced features such as air-cooling, noise insulation, CCTV monitors, public announcement systems, electronic platform signage, and escalator and elevator entrances. This station had six escalators and two elevators when it opened. the AirTrain JFK also has its own entrance from the street just south of the LIRR station. ==Ridership==

In 1990, after the Archer Avenue line opened, the station had 2,491,760 boardings. By 2007, the ridership in this station had more than doubled to 6.064 million annual passengers. In 2018, the station had 7,282,128 boardings, making it the 146th most used station in the -station system. This amounted to an average of 23,388 passengers per weekday. ==Bus and rail connections==

There are connections to the Long Island Rail Road and AirTrain JFK at Jamaica station. New York City Bus routes and MTA Bus routes also stop at the station. == Gallery ==

File:Sutphin-Archer-JFK Lower Level 10.jpg|A view of the elevator leading to the upper level and mezzanine File:WB mezzanine Sutphin Archer IND jeh.jpg|A view of the mezzanine with the "SUTPHIN" mosaic File:Sutphin Archer upper level vc.jpg|A view of passengers at the upper level, exiting an E train with luggage and heading for the AirTrain to JFK Airport == References ==