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John Nathan "Janno" Lieber (born September 19, 1961) [1] is the head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York. He was appointed acting chair and CEO in July 2021 and confirmed permanently in January 2022.
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 ...
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, 1995.
[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 ...
Customers are advised to check any of the MTA’s multiple communications channels at MYmta app, new.mta.info. (service status), live subway maps, Twitter ( @MTA, @NYCTSubway, @NYCTBus, @LIRR and ...
Two staircases from the platform go down to the waiting area, where a turnstile bank provides access to and from the station. Outside fare control , there is a token booth and two sets of doors. One set of doors leads to an elevated passageway that turns 90 degrees to a short staircase before a stair goes down to the east side of Fresh Pond Road.
Otto Kuhler's patent of subway car filed in 1947 (copied by R11) On June 19, 1947, the city announced the details of the $1,158,000 R11 subway car order. The equipment in the subway car was installed by Westinghouse Electric. [1] The full size of the R11 contract was 400 new subway cars, intended to provide service on the planned Second Avenue ...
The Lenox Avenue Line is a line of the New York City Subway, part of the A Division, mostly built as part of the first subway line.Located in Manhattan, New York City, it consists of six stations between Central Park North–110th Street and Harlem–148th Street, all of which are situated within the neighborhood of Harlem in Upper Manhattan.