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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 .
The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. [78] 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.
[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 ...
The New York City Subway uses a system known as Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) for dispatching and train routing on the A Division [237] (the Flushing line and the trains used on the 7 and <7> services do not have ATS.) [237] ATS allows dispatchers in the Operations Control Center (OCC) to see where trains are in real time, and whether each ...
The Dual Contracts, which were signed on March 19, 1913, were contracts for the construction and/or rehabilitation and operation of rapid transit lines in the City of New York. The Dual Contracts promised the construction of several lines in Brooklyn. As part of Contract 3, the IRT agreed to build a subway line along Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn.
The First Avenue station is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of First Avenue and East 14th Street at the border of Stuyvesant Park, Stuyvesant Town, and the East Village in Manhattan, [3] it is served by the L train at all times.
425 Fifth Avenue is a 618-foot (188-meter) residential skyscraper at 38th Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was developed by RFR Davis [2] and designed by Michael Graves. It has 55 floors and 197 units. [3]
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.