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Overview of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line. The Lexington Avenue Line begins in lower Manhattan at the inner loop of the abandoned South Ferry station. North of the station is a merge with the tracks of the Joralemon Street Tunnel from Brooklyn, which become the express tracks. These run north under Broadway and Park Row to Centre Street.
The new portion of the Lexington Avenue Line from Grand Central to 125th Street opened on July 17, 1918. [110] The new "H" system was implemented on August 1, 1918, joining the two halves of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, and the two halves of the Lexington Avenue Line. [111]
This included lines that would have only been operable using IRT rolling stock dimensions, such as the upper Lexington Avenue Line and both lines in Queens. The IRT quickly gave in to the "invasion" of Midtown Manhattan by the BRT. [12] [13] The assignment of the proposed lines in Queens proved to be an imposition on both companies.
The IRT Powerhouse An old IRT sign remains at Wall Street station. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the private operator of New York City's original underground subway line that opened in 1904, as well as earlier elevated railways and additional rapid transit lines in New York City. [2]
All local trains were sent via the Lexington Avenue Line, running along the Pelham Line in the Bronx. [12] In December 1922, the Transit Commission approved a $3 million project to lengthen platforms at 14 local stations along the original IRT line, including 18th Street and seven other stations on the Lexington Avenue Line.
The City Hall station, also known as City Hall Loop station, is a closed station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.It is located under City Hall Park, next to New York City Hall, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
Either the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station or the IRT Lexington Avenue Line station would have been closed. [37] Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Wall Street station was closed for nine days. [38] The original interiors were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [3]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Lexington Avenue Line refers to the following transit lines: IRT Lexington Avenue Line (rapid transit), ...