Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
New York Railways: Metropolitan Crosstown Line: Desbrosses Street Ferry, earlier also West 14th Street Ferry and Union Square: Grand Street Ferry: Watts Street, Spring Street, and Delancey Street discontinued September 21, 1919; restored from February 1, 1920 to May 20, 1931 by court order [2] [3] New York Railways: Avenue C Line
As of late 2013, most rail freight to New York City moves over lines on the west side of the Hudson and is unloaded in New Jersey, where it is brought by truck to the city. Railroad freight cars that enter the city or Long Island do so via the Bronx, Brooklyn, or Staten Island. [17] New York and Atlantic Railway system map
[note 10] A typical New York City Subway train consists of 8 to 11 cars, although shuttles can have as few as two, and the train can range from 150 to 600 feet (46 to 183 m) in length. [ 173 ] The system maintains two separate fleets of cars, one for the A Division routes and another for the B Division routes. [ 174 ]
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 Holiday Nostalgia Train, which is made up of retired subway cars, runs on weekends during the Christmas holiday season. The pre-2022 version of the train, marked as S | Special , ran via IND trackage to Second Avenue , with northern terminals at either Queens Plaza or 145th Street and ran on Sunday mornings and mid-days from Thanksgiving ...
New York New Jersey Rail, LLC: New York Dock Railway: NYD 1910 1983 New York Cross Harbor Railroad Terminal Corporation: New York and Eastern Railway: NYER 2003 2004 N/A Never operated New York and Erie Railroad: ERIE: 1832 1861 Erie Railway: New York and Flushing Railroad: LI: 1859 1891 Long Island Rail Road: New York and Greenwood Lake ...
Williams Map and Guide Company, Map of the borough of Queens, 1923; Chicago Transit & Railfan Web Site: New York City Transit; The New York and Queens County Railway AND The Steinway Lines 1867-1939, Vincent F. Seyfried, 1950; The Don Harold and Francis J. Goldsmith, Jr. Brooklyn El and Trolley Pages (The JoeKorNer: Brooklyn Trolleys)
The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, [1] was the first elevated railway in New York City.It opened in July 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, as an experimental single-track cable-powered elevated railway from Battery Place, at the south end of Manhattan Island, northward up Greenwich Street to Cortlandt Street.