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The New York City Subway is a heavy-rail public transit system serving four of the five boroughs of New York City. The present New York City Subway system inherited the systems of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). New York City has owned the IND ...
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 New York City Subway system differs from other railroad chaining systems in that it uses the engineer's chain of 100 feet (30.48 m) rather than the surveyor's chain of 66 feet (20.12 m). Chaining is used in the New York City Subway system in conjunction with train radios, in order to ascertain a train's location on a given line. [33]
NY&QEL&PCo = New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Company; NYCTA = New York City Transit Authority; NYCTS = New York City Transit System; NYC & HRRR = New York Central & Hudson River Railroad; NYM = New York Municipal Railway Corporation; NYRT = New York Rapid Transit Corporation; NYTCo. = New York Telephone Company
NYC Board of Transportation New York City Subway: Specifications; Car body construction: Stainless steel: Car length: over coupler faces: 60 ft 3 in (18.36 m) Width: 10 ft (3.05 m) Height: 12 ft 2.125 in (3.71 m) Floor height: 2 ft 10.125 in (0.87 m) Platform height: 3 ft 10 in (1.17 m) Doors: 8 sets of 50 inch wide side doors per car: Maximum ...
The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The City School District of the City of New York (more commonly known as New York City Public Schools ) is the largest school system in the United States (and among the largest in the world), with ...
8 was a designation given to two New York City Subway services. It was first used by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation for its Astoria Line from 1917 to 1949. The ex-Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) Third Avenue El subsequently used the designation between 1967 and 1973.
The R188 is a class of new technology (NTT) New York City Subway cars built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for the A Division.The fleet entered service in 2013, displacing the 1980s-era R62A cars that operated on the 7 and <7> services, in conjunction with the automation of the IRT Flushing Line's signal system with communications-based train control (CBTC).