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[8] [9] [a] At the 168th Street station, the only means of access was via two elevators and a staircase, [10] [11] and the station cavern extended 150 feet (46 m) north and south of 168th Street. [12] The original New York City Subway line from City Hall to 145th Street on the West Side Branch opened in October 1904, [4]: 186 [13]: 189 with the ...
Except during late nights, the local service ends at 168th Street, reversing direction on the yard tracks; the A runs to 207th Street at all times, express except during late nights. South of 168th Street, the express (outer) tracks lower below the local tracks, forming another double-decker tunnel, this time under St. Nicholas Avenue. [9]
14th Street Tunnel: 1924: train: East River Tunnels: 1910: 1,204 m (3,949 ft) part of the New York Tunnel Extension Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road (Northeast Corridor) Queens–Midtown Tunnel: 1940: 1,955 m (6,414 ft) 4 lanes of I-495 (Long Island Expressway) The Queens–Midtown Tunnel: Steinway Tunnel: 1915 trains: 53rd Street Tunnel: 1933 ...
Train of Many Colors storage at 207th Street Yard. The New York City Transit Authority operates 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system and one for the Staten Island Railway. [1] [2] [3] There are 10 active A Division yards and 11 active B Division yards, two of which are shared between divisions for storage and car washing.
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 ...
The BMT Jamaica Line, also known as the Broadway - Brooklyn Line, is an elevated rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn and Queens.It runs from the Williamsburg Bridge southeast over Broadway to East New York, Brooklyn, and then east over Fulton Street and Jamaica Avenue to Jamaica, Queens.
[b] The opening of the first line on October 27, 1904, is commonly cited as the opening of the modern New York City Subway, although some elevated lines of the IRT and BMT that were initially incorporated into the New York City Subway system but then demolished predate this. The oldest sections of elevated lines still in operation were built in ...
Unlike the 160th Street and Sutphin Boulevard stations, which were completely demolished in 1979, [11] 168th Street's former control tower, known as the "Station and Trainmen's Building", [12] still remains standing on the southeast corner of 165th Street and Jamaica Avenue. It sits inactive atop a block of storefronts.