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The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. [78] Besides showing the New York City Subway, the map also includes the MTA's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit lines, and Amtrak lines in the consistent visual language of the Vignelli map.
In October of the same year, the final plan was released. The Bx40 and Bx42 changes in Throgs Neck were removed, but the reroute via East 180th Street stayed in the final plan. The changes were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, with the changes being implemented on June 26, 2022. [5]
[b] The opening of the first line on October 27, 1904, is commonly cited as the opening of the modern New York City Subway, although some elevated lines of the IRT and BMT that were initially incorporated into the New York City Subway system but then demolished predate this. The oldest sections of elevated lines still in operation were built in ...
East New York: 525,801 379 Van Siclen Avenue: BMT: Jamaica Line: December 3, 1885 Brooklyn: East New York: 515,895 381 Van Siclen Avenue: IRT: New Lots Line: October 16, 1922 Brooklyn: East New York: 491,980 385 Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue: IRT Flushing Line: June 22, 1915 Queens: Long Island City: 3,631,659 86 Wakefield–241st Street ...
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 ...
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 ...
[39] although New York City's acting mayor and the New York City Board of Estimate initially refused to approve the contract. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] The tunnel between Grand Army Plaza and Nostrand Avenue was built using the cut-and-cover method, with two steam shovels excavating an estimated 600,000 cubic yards (460,000 m 3 ). [ 42 ]
The large "M" logos on trains and buses were replaced with decals that state MTA New York City Bus, MTA New York City Subway or MTA Staten Island Railway, eliminating inconsistencies in signage. [57] Today, the older "M" logos survive on existing cube-shaped lamps on station lampposts dating to the 1980s, though such lamps have been updated ...