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In April 1986, the New York City Transit Authority began to study the possibility of eliminating sections of 11 subway lines because of low ridership. The segments are primarily located in low-income neighborhoods of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, with a total of 79 stations, and 45 miles of track, for a total of 6.5 percent of the system.
An old IRT sign remains at Wall Street station. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the private operator of New York City 's original underground subway line that opened in 1904, as well as earlier elevated railways and additional rapid transit lines in New York City. [2] The IRT was purchased by the city on June 12, 1940, along ...
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Operated by the New York City Transit Authority under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Route map. The sections of the IND and the date each was opened. The Independent Subway System (IND; formerly the ISS[a]) was a rapid transit rail system in New York City that is now part of the New York City Subway. [2] It was first constructed as the Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan in 1932. [3]
In the 1930s and 1940s, as part of the integration of the different subway companies in New York City—the IRT along with Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit (BMT) and Independent Subway System (IND)—the Third Avenue elevated and its counterparts on Second, Sixth, and Ninth Avenues came under criticism from New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia and ...
A poster showing the temporary DD service that resulted from a water main break. D service began on December 15, 1940, when the IND Sixth Avenue Line opened. It ran from 205th Street, the Bronx to World Trade Center (at that time called Hudson Terminal) on the IND Eighth Avenue Line at all times, switching between the IND Sixth Avenue to the Eighth Avenue Lines just south of West Fourth Street ...
The newest New York City Subway stations are part of the Second Avenue Subway, and are located on Second Avenue at 72nd, 86th and 96th streets. They opened on January 1, 2017. Stations that share identical street names are disambiguated by the line name and/or the cross street each is associated with.
Several planned stations in the New York City Subway may possibly feature platform screen doors, including at future stations such as those part of the Second Avenue Subway. [245] In October 2017, it was announced that as part of a pilot program , the Third Avenue station would be refitted with platform screen doors during the 14th Street ...