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This list only includes stations that were closed by Metro-North after the railroad's formation in 1983. It does not include stations closed by the New York Central Railroad, Penn Central Railroad, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Erie Railroad, Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, or Conrail, or the MTA pre-1983.
The system's 472 stations qualifies it to have the largest number of rapid transit stations in the world. Three rapid transit companies merged in 1940 to create the present New York City Subway system: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND).
The Queens trolley loop was near Vernon Avenue (now Vernon Boulevard) in Long Island City. [ 7 ] The Vernon–Jackson Avenues station opened on June 22, 1915, as a terminal for shuttle trains going into Manhattan via the Steinway Tunnel until the line was extended to Hunters Point Avenue on February 5, 1916.
A 2013 Motor Coach D4500CT (2272) on the Midtown-bound X64 on the Long Island Expressway’s HOV lane near the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates 80 express bus routes in New York City, United States. Express routes operated by MTA Bus Company are assigned multi-borough (BM, BxM, QM) prefixes.
The lines were assigned to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT; after 1923, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation or BMT [22]) in the Dual Contracts, adopted on March 4, 1913. [ 6 ] : 203–219 [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The BRT was authorized to construct a line under Broadway with a station at Canal Street, as well as a line under Canal Street ...
A renovation of the Junction Boulevard station was funded as part of the MTA's 1980–1984 capital plan. [21] The MTA received a $106 million grant from the Urban Mass Transit Administration in October 1983; most of the grant would fund the renovation of eleven stations, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] including Junction Boulevard.
The MTA announced in April 2024 that it would make esthetic improvements to the station during mid-2024 as part of its Re-New-Vation program. This station received minor improvements such as repainting of pillars to a black colour, deep cleaning of the station, repainting of benches, incorporating brighter lighting, and other improvements [ 9 ...
However, work on the station had yet to be complete. As of September 2018, the MTA still had to complete the art on the northbound platform's wall, replace temporary ceilings, floodproof the station, and complete the north end of the station. The MTA projected that the work would be substantially complete by the end of December 2018.