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The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest transit system in ...
The Fifth Avenue Line, also called the Fifth Avenue Elevated or Fifth Avenue–Bay Ridge Line, was an elevated rail line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It ran above Hudson Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, Fifth Avenue, 38th Street, and Third Avenue from Downtown Brooklyn south to Bay Ridge. The portion on Third Avenue was called the Third ...
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 ...
NEW YORK CITY — An operator on a subway train with faulty brakes never received a flagger's instruction to stop moments before a New York City subway collision and derailment that left 25 people ...
As early as 13, John Matos was spray painting New York City trains, the full image art as opposed to simpler tagging soon transferred to silk screened canvas. Recognition. Crash was first noticed through his murals on subway cars and dilapidated buildings and is now regarded as a pioneer of the Graffiti art movement.
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The R143 is a class of New Technology Train subway cars built by Kawasaki Rail Car Company for the New York City Subway 's B Division. Delivered between 2001 and 2003, the cars displaced R40s and R42s that operated on the L service in conjunction with the BMT Canarsie Line 's signal system being ...
NEW YORK CITY — Subway trains struck three people — at least one fatally — across New York City in a 12-hour span, authorities said. The fatal collision unfolded late Tuesday along the 6 ...
Injured. Approximately 80. During the afternoon rush hour of June 22, 2009, a subway train wreck occurred between two southbound Red Line Washington Metro trains in Northeast, Washington, D.C., United States. A moving train collided with a train stopped ahead of it; the train operator along with eight passengers died, and 80 people were injured ...