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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.
A current New York City Transit Authority rail system map (unofficial) The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York : the Bronx , Brooklyn , Manhattan , and Queens .
See List of New York City Subway yards. CSX Transportation and New York & Atlantic Railway own and operate freight yards in the city. Furthermore, there are rail yards on property owned by the city of New York, but leased to freight railroads including New York New Jersey Rail. See Rail freight transportation in New York City and Long Island.
It was established by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1983 to acquire operation of all commuter rail service in New York and Connecticut from Conrail, which itself had been formed in 1976 through the merging of a number of financially troubled railroads, and previously operated commuter railroad service under contract from the MTA.
[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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The current New York City Transit Authority rail system map; Manhattan is located on the left-center portion of the map. The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.