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The Second Avenue Subway, a New York City Subway line that runs under Second Avenue on the East Side of Manhattan, has been proposed since 1920. The first phase of the line, consisting of three stations on the Upper East Side , started construction in 2007 and opened in 2017, ninety-seven years after the route was first proposed.
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.
The New York City Subway uses a system known as Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) for dispatching and train routing on the A Division [237] (the Flushing line and the trains used on the 7 and <7> services do not have ATS.) [237] ATS allows dispatchers in the Operations Control Center (OCC) to see where trains are in real time, and whether each ...
The New York City Subway tried to keep its budget balanced between spending and revenue, so deferred maintenance became more common, which drew a slow but steady decline of the system and rolling stock. Furthermore, the workers were consolidated into the Transport Workers Union in 1968. A pension was set up, and workers were allowed to retire ...
In March 2007, plans for the construction of the Second Avenue Subway were revived. [26] [27] [28] The line's first phase, the "first major expansion" to the New York City Subway in more than a half-century, [29] included three stations in total (at 72nd, 86th, and 96th Streets), which collectively cost $4.45 to $4.5 billion.
The Joralemon Street Tunnel (/ dʒ ə ˈ r æ l ɛ m ə n /, ju-RAL-e-mun), originally the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, is a pair of tubes carrying the IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4 and 5 trains) of the New York City Subway under the East River between Bowling Green Park in Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn, New York City.
The 7 Subway Extension is a subway extension of the New York City Subway's IRT Flushing Line, which is served by the 7 local and <7> express services. The extension stretches 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest from its previous terminus at Times Square , at Seventh Avenue and 41st Street, to one new station at 34th Street and Eleventh Avenue.
Currently, no New York City Subway routes service the airport directly, but provisions for a subway connection are part of a 2014 long range rebuilding plan by the MTA. [143] The New York Daily News ' editorial board came out in support of this extension on February 21, 2017, detailing why this route is superior to Governor Andrew Cuomo ’s ...