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The 9 Broadway–Seventh Avenue Local [1] was a rapid transit service in the A Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", was colored red, since it used the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)'s Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line for its entire route. The 9 operated during rush hour periods from 1989 to 2005, as a ...
The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. Besides showing the New York City Subway, the map also includes the MTA's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit lines, and Amtrak lines in the consistent visual language of the Vignelli map.
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]
BRT. Starting in 1899, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT; 1896–1923) and Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT; 1923–1940) operated rapid transit lines in New York City — at first only elevated railways and later also subways. The BRT was incorporated on January 18, 1896. [43]
The Independent Subway System ( IND; formerly the ISS [a]) was a rapid transit rail system in New York City that is now part of the New York City Subway. [2] It was first constructed as the Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan in 1932. [3] It was originally also known as the Independent City-Owned Subway System ( ICOSS) or the Independent City-Owned ...
From 1958 to 1978, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) conducted a twenty-year experiment with diagrammatic subway maps, which showed the topology of the subway network but dispensed with most of the topographical detail, schematized the coastline, and abstracted the subway lines onto a grid. John Tauranac brought this experiment to an ...
The New York City Subway map as of June 2013 subway. [a] 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.
In June 1983, the New York City Transit Authority, along with other service changes, planned to change service on the JFK Express. The JFK Express would have been extended to Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street, and the $5 fare and the special guard would be eliminated, making it like any other subway line. Trains would be 8 cars long instead of ...
The F and <F> Queens Boulevard Express/Sixth Avenue Local are two rapid transit services in the B Division of the New York City Subway.Their route bullets are colored orange, since they use and are part of the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan.
www.nytransitmuseum.org. The New York Transit Museum (also called the NYC Transit Museum) is a museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, and commuter rail systems in the greater New York City metropolitan region. The main museum is located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Downtown Brooklyn ...
