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Bids for the 53rd Street subway tunnel were received in October 1926, [6] and work started in April 1927. [7] The 53rd Street Tunnel was fully excavated between Queens and Manhattan in January 1929. [8] The Seventh Avenue station was designed as an interchange point between service of the IND Queens Boulevard Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line.
The 7 Subway Extension is a subway extension of the New York City Subway's IRT Flushing Line, which is served by the 7 local and <7> express services. The extension stretches 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest from its previous terminus at Times Square, at Seventh Avenue and 41st Street, to one new station at 34th Street and Eleventh Avenue.
The new southern terminal at 34th Street–Hudson Yards has tail tracks to store rush-hour trains and can increase the service frequency to 29 trains per hour. [68] New CBTC-compatible cars for the A Division (the R188 contract) were delivered from 2013 to 2016. [68] In October 2017, the CBTC system was activated from Main Street to 74th Street.
One of the goals of Mayor John Hylan's Independent Subway System (IND), proposed in the 1920s, was a line to Coney Island, reached by a recapture of the BMT Culver Line. [3] [4] As originally designed, service to and from Manhattan would have been exclusively provided by Culver express trains, while all local service would have fed into the IND Crosstown Line. [5]
7th Street/Metro Center was constructed by the Southern California Rapid Transit District, which later became part of today's LA Metro, as part of the first 4.5-mile (7.2 km) minimum operating segment (MOS-1) of the Metro Rail subway (now B Line).
Although on the BMT Brighton Line, Seventh Avenue was built almost fifty years after the main segment of the line from Prospect Park to Brighton Beach opened in 1878. Prior to its opening, trains on the line used what is now the Franklin Avenue Shuttle and a connection to the elevated BMT Fulton Street Line on their way to the line's terminus at Fulton Ferry in Brooklyn or Park Row in Manhattan.
The 57th Street–Seventh Avenue station (signed as the 57th Street station) is an express station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway.Located in Midtown Manhattan at the intersection of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, it is served by the N and Q trains at all times, the R train at all times except late nights, and the W train on weekdays.
50th Street, one of the line's original stations. Also known as the IRT West Side Line, [6] since it runs along the west side of Manhattan, the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line runs from Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street in the Bronx, close to New York City's border with Westchester, to South Ferry in Lower Manhattan, at the southernmost point in the borough.