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The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City 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 Transit Authority operates 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system and one for the Staten Island Railway. [1] [2] [3] There are 10 active A Division yards and 11 active B Division yards, two of which are shared between divisions for storage and car washing.
The current official map of the subway system, based on the Tauranac redesign, incorporates a complex cartography to explain the subway's nomenclature.
All northbound a.m. rush hour trains from Rockaway Park terminate at this station Dyckman Street: Some peak-direction rush hour trips to/from Brooklyn and Queens begin or end their runs at this station: 190th Street: 181st Street: 175th Street: George Washington Bridge Bus Station: 168th Street: C 1 (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
The first major expansion of the subway system was the Dual Contracts, a set of agreements between the City of New York and the IRT and the BRT. The system was expanded into the outer reaches of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, and it provided for the construction of important lines in Manhattan.
Brooklyn branches: IRT Eastern Parkway Line (entire line) IND Culver Line north of Church Avenue; IND Fulton Street Line between Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets and Euclid Avenue; BMT Brighton Line between Ocean Parkway and Prospect Park; BMT Fourth Avenue Line north of 59th Street
The F operates at all times between 179th Street in Jamaica, Queens and Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn. During rush hours, most alternate trains originate and terminate at Kings Highway in Gravesend, Brooklyn instead of Stillwell Avenue.
The present New York City Subway system is composed of three formerly separate systems that merged in 1940: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND).
The subway system today is composed of what once were three separate systems in competition with one another. Two of them were built and operated by private companies: August Belmont's Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT).
The C operates at all times except late nights between 168th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and Euclid Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, making all stops in-between. During late night hours, the A train, which runs express along the entire C route during daytime hours, makes all stops.