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The station is laid out on six tracks: the two innermost tracks serve the Crosstown Line, the next two outer tracks serve the express Fulton Street Line and the outermost two serve the local Fulton Street Line. The station became a transfer station upon its opening on April 9, 1936 between Fulton Street Line trains running to/from Manhattan on ...
The West Side Line, also called the West Side Freight Line, is a railroad line on the west side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.North of Penn Station, from 34th Street, the line is used by Amtrak passenger service heading north via Albany to Toronto; Montreal; Niagara Falls and Buffalo, New York; Burlington, Vermont; and Chicago.
The line consisted of what is today the IRT Lexington Avenue Line south of 42nd Street, the 42nd Street Shuttle and the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line between 42nd and 145th Streets. The line was extended less than a month later to 157th Street, and the Lenox Avenue Spur was also built northeast of 96th Street, with its spur to the IRT ...
On July 4, 2018, the M4's terminal was moved from Penn Station to East 32nd Street and Fifth Avenue to accommodate sidewalk widening on 32nd Street. [ 65 ] On June 30, 2024 the northbound M4 stop on E 32nd St at 5th Ave will be relocated to Madison Ave at E 32nd St.
The shallowest station is the 42nd Street Shuttle platform, which runs in a northwest–southeast direction under 42nd Street east of Broadway, and is 20 feet (6.1 m) below street level. [ 4 ] : 3 [ 146 ] The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station runs 40 feet (12 m) under Seventh Avenue.
Oldest suspension bridge in NYC. Also oldest suspension/cable-stayed hybrid bridge. Manhattan Bridge: 1909: 6,854 2,089: 7 lanes of roadway and trains: Double-decker bridge with 5 westbound lanes and 2 eastbound lanes. 3 of the westbound lanes and the subway are below the other 4 lanes. Williamsburg Bridge: 1903: 7,308.0 2,227.48
At West 63rd Street in Lincoln Center, southbound buses turn west, then turn south on Broadway, terminating at 57th Street and Broadway just south of Columbus Circle. Northbound buses travel along the entire length of Eighth Avenue towards Harlem. [7] [9] Prior to 2010, the M10 continued south to Penn Station at 34th Street. [10]: 79
The 57th Street station opened in 1968, [129] [130] upon which trains to 57th Street began serving the 42nd Street station. [131] The portion of the Chrystie Street Connection connecting the Sixth Avenue Line with the Williamsburg Bridge opened on July 1, 1968, and was used by the KK train [ 132 ] until that route was discontinued in 1976.