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The north end of the Broadway station has been blocked by false walls. This northern third of the platform level area consists of passages that would have served as transfers to an unfinished station on a level directly above the Crosstown Line tracks (provisionally called South Fourth Street or Union Avenue).
4th Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City.It starts at Avenue D as East 4th Street and continues to Broadway, where it becomes West 4th Street.It continues west until the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where West 4th Street turns north and confusingly intersects with West 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets in Greenwich Village.
Plans for a crosstown subway line were floated as early as 1912. [4] [5] In 1923, a plan for such a line, to be operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) from the Queensboro Bridge under Jackson Avenue, Manhattan Avenue, Roebling Street, Bedford Avenue, and Hancock Street to Franklin Avenue at the north end of the BMT Franklin Avenue Line, [6] was adopted by the city. [7]
New York Railways: 86th Street Crosstown Line: Upper West Side: East 92nd Street Ferry: 86th Street and York Avenue New York and Harlem Railroad from 1920 to 1932; [4] Bustitution on June 8, 1936 (now the M86 bus) Third Avenue Railway: 110th Street Crosstown Line: Fort Lee Ferry: East Harlem: 125th Street, St. Nicholas Avenue, and 110th Street ...
Crosstown Line, Fulton Street Line: April 9, 1936 ... West Fourth Street–Washington Square ... Manhattan: Greenwich Village: 10,011,362 19 West Eighth Street–New ...
The most recently created station complex is the Jay Street–MetroTech complex in Brooklyn on the IND Culver Line, IND Fulton Street Line and BMT Fourth Avenue Line; opened on December 8, 2010. [5] The Court Square complex in Queens, which opened in 1988 as a connection between the IND Queens Boulevard and IND Crosstown lines, was expanded by ...
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 ...
That company signed operating agreements with the Fulton Street Railroad on February 19, 1896 [1] and the Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway (which had been formed in March 1896 by a merger of the Thirty-fourth Street and Eleventh Avenue Railroad with its lessor, the Thirty-fourth Street Railroad) on December 21, 1896, and acquired a lease ...