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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. [79] 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.
To the west, the tracks continue under Schermerhorn Street to the decommissioned Court Street station, currently the site of the New York Transit Museum, in Brooklyn Heights. [12] [16] [38] Track A2 is currently out of service for the storage of trains at the New York Transit Museum. [43]
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 New York City Subway has several types of transfer stations, among them station complexes (i.e. sets of two or more stations connected with a passageway inside fare control) and stations serving two or more lines (considered to be one station each). The table below only lists the station complexes.
The 175th Street station (also known as 175th Street–George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal) is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, at the intersection of 175th Street and Fort Washington Avenue, it is served by the A train at all times.
The Aqueduct Racetrack station is a station on the IND Rockaway Line of the New York City Subway.Located on the west side of Aqueduct Racetrack near Pitkin Avenue in the South Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, [6] it is served by northbound A trains at all times [7] and by the northbound Rockaway Park Shuttle during summer weekends.
The six-track section continues until just north of 125th Street. The express trains use the innermost pair of tracks, and the locals uses the outermost tracks. [19] This section of the line is nicknamed "Homeball Alley"—a reference to a home signal, a type of railway signal used in the New York City Subway system. [27]
The New York City Board of Estimate approved funds for the project in July 1926, [15] and the extensions were completed in 1927, bringing the length of the platforms to 535 feet (163 m). [16] [17] The remaining portion of the subway line is configured with four tracks; however, the Essex Street station accommodates only three tracks and two ...