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Number built: 212: Number in service: 212 (176 in revenue service during rush hours) Formation: 53 4-car sets (2 A cars and 2 B cars) Fleet numbers: 8101–8312: Capacity: 240 (A car) 246 (B car) Operators: New York City Subway: Depots: East New York Yard [1] [2] Service(s) assigned [3] [4] As of June 30, 2024: Specifications; Car body construction
The New York City Board of Transportation, predecessor to the New York City Transit Authority, began to introduce replacements to older subway cars beginning with the R12 cars in 1948. With these cars, numbers were publicly designated to the former IRT lines. Lexington–Pelham trains were assigned the number 6.
In June 1940, the IND's operator, the New York City Board of Transportation, took over the transportation assets of the IRT and BMT. [14] In June 1953, the New York City Transit Authority, a state agency incorporated for the benefit of the city, now known to the public as MTA New York City Transit, succeeded the BoT.
New York Transit Museum Press, New York, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9637492-8-4. Kramer, Frederick A. Building the Independent Subway. Quadrant Press, Inc.; New York, 1990. ISBN 0-915276-50-X; Cudahy, Brian J. Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World, 2nd Revised Edition. Fordham University Press, New York ...
Number built: 325: Number in service: 315 (260 in revenue service during rush hours) Number scrapped: 8 (+2 for fire training) Successor: R262: Formation: 5-car sets (originally single cars) Fleet numbers: 1301–1625: Capacity: 42 (seated-A car) 44 (seated-B car) Operators: New York City Subway: Depots
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.
New York has the largest Chinese population of any city outside Asia, [263] Manhattan's Chinatown is the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, [264] and Queens is home to the largest Tibetan population outside Asia. [265] Arab Americans number over 160,000 in New York City, [266] with the
[15] [17] His appointment came in the midst of the 2017 New York City transit crisis, a few days after The New York Times published an in-depth investigative report chronicling decades of mismanagement and under-investment by the MTA. [18] [19] Byford was the second person to have headed both the TTC and the NYCTA, after David L. Gunn. He was ...