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The West Side Line, also called the West Side Freight Line, is a railroad line on the west side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.North of Penn Station, from 34th Street, the line is used by Amtrak passenger service heading north via Albany to Toronto; Montreal; Niagara Falls and Buffalo, New York; Burlington, Vermont; and Chicago.
50th Street, one of the line's original stations. Also known as the IRT West Side Line, [6] since it runs along the west side of Manhattan, the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line runs from Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street in the Bronx, close to New York City's border with Westchester, to South Ferry in Lower Manhattan, at the southernmost point in the borough.
Penn Station Access (PSA) is a public works project underway by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City.The goal of the project is to allow Metro-North Railroad commuter trains to access Penn Station on Manhattan's West Side, using existing trackage owned by Amtrak.
A schematic map of New York City's subway lines (i.e., Sea Beach, West End, ...) as opposed to services (i.e., N, D, ...). The Queens Boulevard viaduct of the IRT Flushing Line. The New York City Subway is a heavy-rail public transit system serving four of the five boroughs of New York City.
The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, [1] was the first elevated railway in New York City.It opened in July 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, as an experimental single-track cable-powered elevated railway from Battery Place, at the south end of Manhattan Island, northward up Greenwich Street to Cortlandt Street.
Much of the corridor was once part of the New York Central Railroad's main line. Amtrak's Empire Service and Maple Leaf serve the entire length of the Empire Corridor, with the Maple Leaf continuing northwest to Toronto. The Lake Shore Limited follows most of the corridor from New York City, diverging west to Chicago at the Buffalo–Depew station.
The 96th Street station is an express station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of 96th Street and Broadway in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, it is served by the 1, 2, and 3 trains at all times.
The 72nd Street station opened on October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway from City Hall to 145th Street on the West Side Branch. [2] [8]: 186 The opening of the first subway line, and particularly the 72nd Street station, helped contribute to the development of the Upper West Side.