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A map of the IND system, 1939. The Queens Boulevard Line, also referred to as the Long Island City−Jamaica Line , Fifty-third Street−Jamaica Line , and Queens Boulevard−Jamaica Line prior to opening, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] was an original line of the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), planned to stretch between the IND Eighth Avenue ...
This plan was never furthered. The next big plan, and arguably the most ambitious in the subway system's history, was the "Second System". The 1929 plan by the Independent Subway to construct new subway lines, the Second System would take over existing subway lines and railroad rights-of-way. This plan would have expanded service throughout the ...
The former IRT system is now known as the A Division, while the B Division is the combined former BMT and IND systems. In the New York City Subway nomenclature , a "line" refers to the physical trackage used by trains that are used by numbered or lettered "services"; the services that run on certain lines change periodically.
These lines and services were operated by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) and city-owned Independent Subway System (IND) before the 1940 city takeover of the BMT. B Division rolling stock is wider, longer, and heavier than those of the A Division , measuring 10 or 9.75 ft (3,048 or 2,972 mm) by 60 or 75 ft (18.29 or 22.86 m).
The core section between 50th Street in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, and 169th Street in Jamaica, Queens, was built by the Independent Subway System (IND) in stages between 1933 and 1940, with the Jamaica–179th Street terminus opening in 1950. As of 2015, it is among the system's busiest lines, with a weekday ridership of over 460,000 people.
[78] [79] The second phase of the IND line's reconstruction was completed in December 2020. [80] Two years later, the MTA announced it would reconstruct 12,500 feet (3,800 m) of track on the BMT Archer Avenue Line. [81] Starting on July 1, 2022, J service was cut back to 121st Street, and Z service was temporarily discontinued.
The most constant is the line, the physical structure and the tracks that trains run over.Each section of the system is assigned a unique line name, usually paired with its original operating company or division: Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), Independent Subway System (IND).
[2] [4]: 11–18, map at back cover Massively scaled-down versions of some of Turner's plans were found in proposals for the new city-owned Independent Subway System (IND). [5] Among the plans was a massive trunk line under Second Avenue consisting of at least six tracks and numerous branches throughout Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. [4]