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Queens would see three subway expansions, including two new Queens lines: one along Northern Boulevard to Flushing or College Point and one along Jewel Avenue to Alley Pond Park. A one-stop extension of the Astoria Line would be built to serve western Astoria. [98] Ultimately, the plan included eight extensions with at least 40 stations in ...
The New York City Transit Authority operates 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system and one for the Staten Island Railway. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There are 10 active A Division yards and 11 active B Division yards, two of which are shared between divisions for storage and car washing.
The Subway Nut — 61st Street–Woodside Pictures Archived May 16, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; MTA's Arts For Transit — Woodside–61st Street (IRT Flushing Line) 61st Street entrance from Google Maps Street View; Station as seen from the LIRR platforms from Google Maps Street View; Platforms from Google Maps Street View
The BMT was the inheritor of subway, elevated and surface rapid transit lines that had been built in Brooklyn and Queens by a variety of previous operators, mainly surface steam railroads to Coney Island and elevated railroads in more populated areas. The BMT identified most of its lines by the common names given to them, often going well back ...
Formerly operated by Queens-Nassau Transit Lines, Queens Transit Corporation, and Queens Surface Corporation. The original Q25 terminus was in Flushing; it was combined with the then-Q34 route into College Point. Southern terminus moved from 160th Street and Jamaica Avenue to Parsons Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue in 2005. [173]
8 was a designation given to two New York City Subway services. It was first used by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation for its Astoria Line from 1917 to 1949. The ex-Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) Third Avenue El subsequently used the designation between 1967 and 1973.
The former and current track configurations at the Queensboro Plaza cross-platform transfer station. The system was created from the consolidation of three separate companies that merged in 1940: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND).
The IND Rockaway Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, operating in Queens.It branches from the IND Fulton Street Line at Rockaway Boulevard, extending over the Jamaica Bay, into the Rockaways.