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The NYCTA approved four changes in subway service on April 27, 1981, including an increase in B service. The changes were made as part of the $1 million, two-year Rapid Transit Sufficiency Study, and were expected to take place as early as 1982, following public hearings and approval by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board.
Staten Island (/ ˈ s t æ t ən / STAT-ən) is the southernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York.The borough is separated from the adjacent state of New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull and from the rest of New York by New York Bay.
The elevated AirTrain people mover system connects JFK International Airport to the New York City Subway and the Long Island Rail Road along the Van Wyck Expressway; [177] a separate AirTrain system is planned alongside the Grand Central Parkway to connect LaGuardia Airport to these transit systems.
The full 601-foot (183 m) length of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine was opened for the first time on November 30, 1941. [141] [152] [153] [154] At that time, St. John's was only three-fifths completed, yet it was the second-largest Christian church in the world by area, behind only St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
Representatives of small nations living in the former Austria-Hungary and active in the Congress of Oppressed Nations regarded the treaty of Trianon for being an act of historical righteousness [131] [page needed] because a better future for their nations was "to be founded and durably assured on the firm basis of world democracy, real and ...