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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.
This is a route-map template for the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, a New York City Subway line.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The first IRT subway ran between City Hall and 145th Street at Broadway, opening on October 27, 1904. [3] It opened following more than twenty years of public debate on the merits of subways versus the existing elevated rail system and on various proposed routes.
The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940. [17] [18] The IRT routes were given numbered designations in 1948 with the introduction of "R-type" rolling stock, which contained rollsigns with numbered designations for each service. [19] The Broadway route to 242nd Street became known as the 1 and the Lenox Avenue route as ...
The 9 Broadway–Seventh Avenue Local [1] was a rapid transit service in the A Division of the New York City Subway.Its route emblem, or "bullet", was colored red, [1] the color used by trains on the Interborough Rapid Transit Company's (IRT) Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
The 28th Street station is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of 28th Street and Seventh Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times and by the 2 train during late nights.
As part of Contract 4, the IRT agreed to build a branch of the original subway line south down Seventh Avenue, Varick Street, and West Broadway to serve the West Side of Manhattan. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The construction of this line, in conjunction with the construction of the Lexington Avenue Line , would change the operations of the IRT system.
The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940. [20] [21] The IRT routes were given numbered designations in 1948 with the introduction of "R-type" rolling stock, which contained rollsigns with numbered designations for each service. [22] The Broadway route to 242nd Street became known as the 1 and the Lenox Avenue route as ...