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Select Bus Service (SBS; stylized as +selectbus service) is a service provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Regional Bus Operations for limited-stop bus routes with some bus rapid transit features in New York City. The first SBS route was implemented in 2008 to improve speed and reliability on long, busy corridors.
March 30, 2005. The West Fourth Street–Washington Square station (also West Fourth Street station) is an express station and transfer stop on the IND Sixth Avenue and IND Eighth Avenue Lines of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of West Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.
With the opening of the IND 63rd Street Line on October 29, 1989, B service was extended from 57th Street to 21st Street–Queensbridge on weekends. [25][26][27] In addition, the span of through service on weekends between Brooklyn and Manhattan was increased from 17 to 19 hours.
The new southern terminal at 34th Street–Hudson Yards has tail tracks to store rush-hour trains and can increase the service frequency to 29 trains per hour. [68] New CBTC-compatible cars for the A Division (the R188 contract) were delivered from 2013 to 2016. [68] In October 2017, the CBTC system was activated from Main Street to 74th Street.
[19] [20] On August 9, 1964, the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) announced the letting of a $7.6 million contract to lengthen platforms at stations from Rector Street to 34th Street–Penn Station on the line, including Cortlandt Street, and stations from Central Park North–110th Street to 145th Street on the Lenox Avenue Line to ...
The one-stop 7 Subway Extension to the west side of Manhattan, consisting of the 34th Street–Hudson Yards station, was opened in 2015, [109] [110] [note 7] and three stations on the Second Avenue Subway in the Upper East Side were opened as part of Phase 1 of the line at the beginning of 2017. [111]
Local elected officials pressured the MTA to eliminate all-local service at these stations. [44] On September 30, 1990, the R was cut back to 71st–Continental Avenue outside of rush hours. Late night service to 179th Street was replaced by G service, while F trains began running local east of 71st Avenue during middays, evenings, and weekends.
Area code. 212, 332, 646, and 917. Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan and serves as the city's primary central business district. Midtown is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, the ...