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The IRT Flushing Line is a rapid transit route of the New York City Subway system, named for its eastern terminal in Flushing, Queens. It is operated as part of the A Division . The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), a private operator, had constructed the section of the line from Flushing , Queens , to Times Square , Manhattan between ...
The IRT was also extended to Queens through the construction of the Flushing Line, the first part of which would open in 1915. [113] By the 1950s and 1960s, almost all of the original IRT stations had been lengthened to fit ten 51.4-foot (15.7 m) cars. [114] [115] [b] Several stations were closed during this time. The first of these was City ...
On January 20, 1913, because of these concerns, the Flushing Association voted to demand that any IRT station in Flushing be built underground. [7]: 54 Due to advocacy for elevated extensions to the line past Flushing (see § Proposed extension of the line), the PSC vacillated on whether to build a subway or elevated for the next few months.
After 1913, all lines built for the IRT and most lines for the BRT were built by the city and leased to the companies. The first line of the city-owned and operated Independent Subway System (IND) opened in 1932, intended to compete with the private systems and replace some of the elevated railways. It was required to be run "at cost ...
The Steinway Tunnel's Queens portals at left; to the right are the East River Tunnels' portals. Pictured in April 1974. In 1900, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), headed by August Belmont Jr., was awarded the contract for construction and operation of the city's subway line and a few years later the IRT engineered a takeover of Manhattan's elevated railways, thus gaining a monopoly ...
When the majority of the line was built in the early 1910s, most of the route went through undeveloped land, and Roosevelt Avenue had not been constructed. [6]: 47 Community leaders advocated for more Dual Contracts lines to be built in Queens to allow development there. [7] The Flushing Line west of 103rd Street opened in 1917. [8]
The IRT Flushing Line was to be one of two Dual Contracts lines in the borough, along with the Astoria Line; it would connect Flushing and Long Island City, two of Queens's oldest settlements, to Manhattan via the Steinway Tunnel. When the majority of the line was built in the early 1910s, most of the route went through undeveloped land, and ...
The Queens Boulevard Line, also referred to as the Long Island City−Jamaica Line, Fifty-third Street−Jamaica Line, and Queens Boulevard−Jamaica Line prior to opening, [6] [7] [8] was an original line of the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), planned to stretch between the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and 178th Street and ...