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The BMT West End Line is a line of the New York City Subway, serving the Brooklyn communities of Sunset Park, Borough Park, New Utrecht, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Coney Island. The D train operates local on the entire line at all times. Although there is a center express track and three express stations along the line, there is no regular ...
58 Joralemon Street. Coordinates: 40.693543°N 73.997335°W. The facade of 58 Joralemon Street. 58 Joralemon Street, in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York, United States, is a Greek Revival structure built in 1847 as a private residence but is now a New York City Subway vent. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company acquired the property in ...
WP:NYCPT. WP:NYCS. WikiProject New York City Public Transportation is a project to better organize information in articles dealing with mass transit in New York City and its surrounding areas. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and ...
The New York City Transit Police Department was a law enforcement agency in New York City that existed from 1953 (with the creation of the New York City Transit Authority) to 1995, and is currently part of the NYPD. The roots of this organization go back to 1936 when Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia authorized the hiring of special patrolmen for ...
FDNY = FDNY. GAS = Brooklyn Union Gas. HPFS = High Pressure Fire Service. IRT = Interborough Rapid Transit. JWS = Jamaica Water Supply Company of New York. KCEL&PC = Kings County Electric Light and Power Company. KCR Co. = Kings County Refrigerating Co. [Gansevoort Market area] LIC = Long Island City. LIRR = Long Island Rail Road.
New York, often called New York City [b] or simply NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each of which is coextensive with a respective county. New York is a global center of finance [11] and commerce ...
The Surface Transportation Corporation was the bus -operating subsidiary of the Third Avenue Railway in New York City which operated under that name following the conversion of the streetcar lines in Manhattan and the Bronx to bus service between March 1941 and August 1948. [1] On December 17, 1956, the corporation was bought by Fifth Avenue ...
Mike Quill. Michael Joseph " Red Mike " Quill (September 18, 1905 – January 28, 1966) was one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), a union founded by subway workers in New York City that expanded to represent employees in other forms of transit. He served as the President of the TWU for most of the first thirty ...