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Express trains began running on April 24, 1939, to serve the 1939 New York World's Fair. [26] The first train left Main Street at 6:30 a.m. local time.IRT expresses ran every nine minutes between Main Street and Times Square, with BMT expresses having a similar frequency, running just between Main Street and Queensboro Plaza.
Today, Queensboro Plaza is the only station in the entire system to provide cross-platform transfers between "A" Division (7 and <7> ) and "B" Division (N and W) trains. While the station is near the Queens Plaza underground subway station, which serves the IND Queens Boulevard Line , the two stations are separate and do not offer free transfers.
The IRT Flushing Line's 7 service has the distinction of running trains with the largest number of cars in the New York City Subway. 7 trains are eleven cars long; most other New York City Subway services run ten or eight-car trains. The trains are not the longest by total length, however. An IND/BMT train of ten 60-foot (18 m)-long cars or ...
R trains will be running on the D line between 36th Street and Ninth Avenue during the suspension and late-night R trains won’t be running at all. Instead, Manhattan-bound N trains will be ...
Every other 6 train runs express between Third Avenue–138th Street and Parkchester from 06:30 until 12:30 only in inbound direction and from 12:30 until 21:00 only in outbound direction. Local trains terminate at Parkchester while express trains continue as locals to Pelham Bay Park during p.m. rush hours. [7]
The Q train started running along the Sixth Avenue Line's express tracks in 1988 [137] and continued to operate on the line until 2001. [138] The V train, which used the Sixth Avenue Line's local tracks, began serving the station in December 2001. [139] The V train was discontinued in 2010 and replaced by the M train. [140]
The oldest subway line in Queens is the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line which was extended from Brooklyn into Ridgewood and Middle Village, replacing a steam dummy line. This was followed by the IRT Flushing Line , which had only one station in Long Island City, until it was extended with Dual Contracts to Astoria in 1916, Corona on April 21, 1917, [ 1 ...
A promise to build a new LIRR station in Sunnyside to provide access to Penn Station was quietly abandoned by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration in 2016 as the East Side Access project to ...