Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
New stations on the Second Avenue Subway have porcelain tiles and built-in artwork. [10] The walls adjacent to the tracks at the new 34th Street station have white tiles arranged in sets of three columns of 3 tiles each. There are two-tile-high gray squares containing white "34"s in the middle of each set of columns. [11]
The New York City Subway map is an anomaly among subway maps around the world, in that it shows city streets, parks, and neighborhoods juxtaposed among curved subway lines, whereas other subway maps (like the London Underground map) do not show such aboveground features and show subway lines as straight and at 45- or 90-degree angles. [49]
A transit map is a topological map in the form of a schematic diagram used to illustrate the routes and stations within a public transport system—whether this be bus, tram, rapid transit, commuter rail or ferry routes. Metro maps, subway maps, or tube maps of metropolitan railways are some common examples.
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in New York City serving the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, [14] an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). [15]
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 ...
A typical subway station has waiting platforms ranging from 480 to 600 feet (150 to 180 m) long. Some IND platforms may be as long as 660 to 745 feet (201 to 227 m) long. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] Platforms of former commuter rail stations, such as those on the IND Rockaway Line , are even longer.
File information Description New York City Subway Map. Updated version of Source I (CountZ ()) created this work entirely by myself.Date 01:22, 20 September 2009 (UTC) ...
[204]: 26 The Hanover Square station would be deep enough to allow for the potential extension of Second Avenue Subway service to Brooklyn through a new tunnel under the East River. [ 201 ] In October 2023, the MTA published a comparative evaluation of potential expansion and improvement projects to the region's transit system as part of its ...