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Evolution of New York City subways: An illustrated history of New York City's transit cars, 1867–1997. New York Transit Museum Press, New York, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9637492-8-4. Kramer, Frederick A. Building the Independent Subway. Quadrant Press, Inc.; New York, 1990. ISBN 0-915276-50-X; Cudahy, Brian J. Under the Sidewalks of New York: The ...
The New York City Subway is one of the few subways worldwide operating 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. The schedule is divided into different periods, with each containing different operation patterns and train intervals.
The New York City Subway is a heavy-rail public transit system serving four of the five boroughs of New York City. The present New York City Subway system inherited the systems of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). New York City has owned the IND ...
In 1940, the City of New York purchased the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, and began integrating the line into the system. [18]: 59–60 Plans were made for restoring the old line north into Westchester County, but ultimately failed, [19] and the superfluous track and overhead catenary on the old NYW&B were scrapped by 1943. [20]
The Rector Street station is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the corner of Rector Street and Trinity Place in Financial District, Lower Manhattan, the station is served by the R train at all times except late nights, when the N train takes over service. The W train also serves this station on ...
The New York City Board of Transportation settled on a system of documentation that is still in place under MTA New York City Transit. This included a prefix letter or letters that indicated the department that the specific documentation, followed by a series of numbers of a length defined by the specific department concerned.
The Cathedral Parkway–110th Street station [4] is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.It is located in the Upper West Side and Morningside Heights, Manhattan, at West 110th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard at the northwest corner of Central Park.
In the New York City Subway there are several types of transfer stations: A station complex is where two or more stations are connected with a passageway inside fare control. There are 472 stations of the New York City Subway when each station is counted separately. When station complexes are counted as one station each, the count of stations ...