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An 1807 grid plan of Manhattan. The history of New York City's transportation system began with the Dutch port of New Amsterdam.The port had maintained several roads; some were built atop former Lenape trails, others as "commuter" links to surrounding cities, and one was even paved by 1658 from orders of Petrus Stuyvesant, according to Burrow, et al. [1] The 19th century brought changes to the ...
Skyline Drive-In. New York ... measuring an astonishing 6,240 square feet and now charges like it — admission is $12.50 per adult and $7 for children, in jumps from the previous year. In the ...
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 since its inception; the BMT and IRT were taken over by the city in 1940. The former IRT system is now known as ...
This article lists all the current services, along with their lines and terminals and a brief description; see Unused New York City Subway service labels for unused and defunct services. In the New York City Subway nomenclature, numbered or lettered "services" use different segments of physical trackage, or "lines". The services that run on ...
The congestion pricing program took effect Jan. 5 and slapped drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street with a $9 surcharge — with the funds going to the transportation network’s $15 ...
A New York transit agency voted on Wednesday to indefinitely halt congestion pricing in Manhattan that was set to start on June 30 after the state's governor directed the action. The Metropolitan ...
The Broadway Line is a surface transit line in Manhattan, New York City, running mainly along 42nd Street and Broadway from Times Square to Harlem. Formerly a streetcar line operated by the Third Avenue Railway, it is now the M104 bus route operated by MaBSTOA, a division of MTA Regional Bus Operations. This bus route no longer runs along the ...
In what has been described as "the miracle on 34th Street," a woman brought a baby girl into the world on the New York City subway. The 25-year-old woman gave birth on the train about 11:30 a.m ...