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In April 1993, the New York State Legislature agreed to give the MTA $9.6 billion for capital improvements. Some of the funds would be used to renovate nearly one hundred New York City Subway stations, [148] [149] including the entire Canal Street complex. [150] Work on the renovation began in May 1994, at which point it was supposed to cost ...
The section of the Tremont Street subway between Park Street and Boylston Street stations, now on the Green Line, opened in 1897, making it the oldest transit subway in North America still in use (only the short-lived Beach Pneumatic Transit demonstration line in New York City was built before).
One aspect of the New York City Subway Action Plan involved removing seats from the 42nd Street Shuttle (pictured) On July 25, Chairman Lhota announced a two-phase, $9 billion New York City Subway Action Plan to stabilize the subway system and to stall its continuing decline. [49] [50] It expanded on the six-point plan elaborated on in May. [51]
In 1986, the New York City Transit Authority launched a study to determine whether to close 79 stations on 11 routes, including the segment of the Rockaway Line south of Howard Beach, due to low ridership and high repair costs. [30] [31] Numerous figures, including New York City Council member Carol Greitzer, criticized the plans. [31] [32]
The New York City Transit Police Department was a law enforcement agency in New York City that existed from 1953 (with the creation of the New York City Transit Authority) to 1995, and is currently part of the NYPD.
The R33S [1] (also known as R33 World's Fair or R33WF) was a New York City Subway car that was built by St. Louis Car Company in 1963 for the IRT A Division.They were purchased for service on the IRT Flushing Line (7 and <7> trains), which was the closest line to the 1964 New York World's Fair.
The R211 is a class of New Technology Train (NTT) subway cars built for the New York City Subway.Being built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing for the B Division and the Staten Island Railway (SIR), they will replace two aging subway car models: all R44 cars on the Staten Island Railway and all R46 subway cars.
The Astor Place station, also called Astor Place–Cooper Union on signs, is a local station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.Located at Fourth Avenue, Cooper Square, and Astor Place between the East Village and NoHo, it is served by 6 trains at all times, <6> trains during weekdays in the peak direction, and 4 trains during late night hours.