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72nd Street is one of the major bi-directional crosstown streets in New York City's borough of Manhattan. The street primarily runs through the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods. It is one of the few streets to go through Central Park via Women's Gate, Terrace Drive, and Inventors Gate, though Terrace Drive is often closed to ...
The 72nd Street station opened on October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway from City Hall to 145th Street on the West Side Branch. [2] [8]: 186 The opening of the first subway line, and particularly the 72nd Street station, helped contribute to the development of the Upper West Side.
The 72nd Street station is a station on the first phase of the Second Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of Second Avenue and 72nd Street, in the Lenox Hill section of the Upper East Side in Manhattan, it opened on January 1, 2017.
The 72nd Street station is a local station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at 72nd Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side. It is served by the B on weekdays, the C train at all times except nights, and the A train during late nights only.
[18] [12] 72nd Street and 125th Street were conceived as three-track, two-platform stations. 72nd Street was eventually scaled down to a two-track, center island platform station in order to reduce costs, [21] [22] A three-tracked 72nd Street station would have allowed trains from the Broadway Line to short-turn (reverse) without interfering ...
The Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House is at 867 Madison Avenue, along the southeast corner of 72nd Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [5] The house has a frontage of 102 feet (31 m) on Madison Avenue to the west and 40 feet (12 m) on 72nd Street to the north.
A 1999 Nova Bus RTS-06 (5131) on the Upper East Side-bound M72 along 72nd Street. The M72 bus service was started on September 10, 1989 in order to provide crosstown service on 72nd Street, a major arterial road, from 72nd Street and York Avenue to 66th Street and Freedom Place, deviating to the 65th Street Transverse to travel through Central Park.
According to an 1895 timetable, two trains stopped at 72nd Street daily to serve students attending what is now Hunter College. [20] [21] [22] On April 29, 1901, the New York Central was granted permission to abandon the station and the 86th Street station by the New York State Railroad Commissioners due to its low ridership. [23]