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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 current R service is the successor to the original route 2 of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation. [5] [6] When 2 service began on January 15, 1916, it ran between Chambers Street on the BMT Nassau Street Line and 86th Street on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line, using the Manhattan Bridge to cross the East River, and running via Fourth Avenue local. [7]
The L operates 24 hours a day between Eighth Avenue in Chelsea, Manhattan, and Rockaway Parkway in Canarsie, Brooklyn, making all stops along the full route. It also briefly enters Queens at Halsey Street, serving the neighborhood of Ridgewood. [5] It is the first New York City Subway service to be automated using communications-based train ...
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in New York City serving the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, [14] an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). [15]
The underground subway from Manhattan (via the IRT Lenox Avenue Line) reached the Bronx by July 10, 1905 and White Plains Road Line trains operated through the subway. [6] In 1908, as an extension of Contract 1, the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line , would reach the western Bronx from 225th Street to its present terminal at Van Cortlandt Park ...
Starting on December 15, 1950, four 4 trains began operating during rush hours in the peak direction to and from Flatbush Avenue on the Nostrand Avenue Line, with the four trains in the AM rush hour leaving every 16 minutes between 7:59 and 8:47 a.m., and the four trains in the PM rush hour arriving every 16–20 minutes between 5:20 and 6:13 p ...
In addition, the frequency of E service was reduced from 15 trains per hour to 12 trains per hour to allow the frequency of F service to be increased from 15 trains per hour to 20 trains per hour. The frequency of F service was subsequently reduced to running every 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 minutes on April 15, 1991, before being increased back to 3 + 1 ...
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 ...