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In 1938, as part of a remodeling of City Hall Park, city parks commissioner Robert Moses proposed relocating the entrances of the IRT's City Hall station and those of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT)'s adjacent City Hall station. [49] The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940. [50] [51]
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company's, later Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT)'s, Broadway Line was built as four tracks south to City Hall, where the local tracks were to terminate on the upper level, and the express tracks were to use the lower level, curving through Vesey Street into Church Street.
The complex comprises two stations, Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall and Chambers Street. The Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall station was built for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), and was an express station on the city's first subway line. The station opened on October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway.
On March 19, 1913, New York City, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, and the IRT reached an agreement, known as the Dual Contracts, to drastically expand subway service across New York City. As part of Contract 3 of the agreement, between New York City and the IRT, the original subway opened by the IRT in 1904 to City Hall, [10] and extended ...
Contract 2 extended the original line from City Hall in Manhattan to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. The Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners approved the route on September 27, 1900, [7] and the contract was signed on September 11, 1902. Construction commenced on Contract 2 on March 4, 1903. [8]
The Park Row station was a major elevated railway terminal constructed on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, across from New York City Hall and the IRT's elevated City Hall station. [3] It served as the terminal for BMT services operating over the Brooklyn Bridge Elevated Line from the BMT Fulton Street Line , BMT Myrtle Avenue Line ...
MTA Regional Bus Operations: Operator: New York City Transit Authority: Garage: Flatbush Depot: Vehicle: Orion VII NG HEV New Flyer Xcelsior XD40 [1] Began service: 1860 (trolley line) March 4, 1951 (bus service) September 14, 1992 (limited-stop service) Night-time: Every 30 minutes (buses alternate between each branch) Route; Locale: Brooklyn ...
Located at Grant Avenue just north of Pitkin Avenue in Cypress Hills [4] and City Line, Brooklyn, near the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, [5] [6] it is served by the A train at all times. The station is the line's easternmost stop in Brooklyn; the Fulton Street Line continues east into Queens via the Fulton Street Elevated. [6]