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Union Square is a historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, United States, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue [4] – came together in the early 19th century. Its name denotes that "here was the union of the two principal thoroughfares of the island".
MTA Regional Bus Operations: Operator: New York City Transit Authority: Garage: Michael J. Quill Depot: Vehicle: New Flyer Xcelsior XD40 New Flyer Xcelsior XE40 Nova Bus LFS HEV: Began service: November 17, 1946 1901 (streetcar) Ended service: November 17, 1946 (streetcar) Route; Locale: Manhattan, New York, U.S. Communities served: East ...
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 ...
On the morning of April 12, 2022, a mass shooting was committed on a northbound N train on the New York City Subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States.At approximately 8:24 a.m. EDT, a 62-year-old Black nationalist [4] [5] Frank Robert James [2] put on a gas mask, threw two smoke grenades, and fired a handgun 33 times.
The current R service is the successor to the original route 2 of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation. [5] [6] When 2 service began on January 15, 1916, it ran between Chambers Street on the BMT Nassau Street Line and 86th Street on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line, using the Manhattan Bridge to cross the East River, and running via Fourth Avenue local. [7]
A 1980 transit strike in New York City halted service on the New York City Transit Authority (a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority) for the first time since 1966. Around 33,000 members of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 walked off their jobs on April 1, 1980, in a strike with the goal of increasing the wage for ...
Aerial shot from 1973 of the Holland Tunnel Rotary serving eastbound tube of tunnel; a fifth exit was added in 2004. The section of I-78 within New York is 0.5 miles (0.80 km) long according to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), [1] although the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) considers I-78 to be 0.9 miles (1.4 km) long. [2]
A FDNY deputy chief during rescue efforts at the World Trade Center following the September 11, 2001 attacks.. Like most fire departments of major cities in the United States, the New York City Fire Department is organized in a paramilitary fashion, and in many cases, echoes the structure of the police department. [11]