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Rapid transit: System: New York City Subway: Operator(s) New York City Transit Authority: Daily ridership: 29,422 [1] History; Opened: 1889–1915: Closed: 1969 (segment west of Central Avenue) Technical; Number of tracks: 2: Character: Street level (Metropolitan Avenue only) Elevated: Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) Electrification ...
The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, [1] was the first elevated railway in New York City.It opened in July 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, as an experimental single-track cable-powered elevated railway from Battery Place, at the south end of Manhattan Island, northward up Greenwich Street to Cortlandt Street.
A map of the New York City Subway by line placement. Underground is in orange. Elevated, at-grade, embankment, open-cut is in blue. Despite “subway” implying underground travel, the following segments are located above ground or at grade level [17] and comprise about 40% of the trackage. [18]
Train men's New York City guide via elevated railroads. ( ) ... Recoded by LuraDocument PDF v2.60: Encrypted: no: Page size: 341 x 483 pts; 298 x 463 pts; 319 x 479 pts;
Originally operated by the New York Elevated Railway, an independent railway company, it was acquired by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and eventually became part of the New York City Subway system. The first segment of the line, with service at most stations, opened from South Ferry to Grand Central Depot on August 26, 1878. [1]
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.
The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. [79] Besides showing the New York City Subway, the map also includes the MTA's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit lines, and Amtrak lines in the consistent visual language of the Vignelli map.
This is a route-map template for the BMT Fulton Street 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.