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The IRT Flushing Line is a rapid transit route of the New York City Subway system, named for its eastern terminal in Flushing, Queens. It is operated as part of the A Division. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), a private operator, had constructed the section of the line from Flushing, Queens, to Times Square, Manhattan between 1915 ...
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The Flushing Line (originally called the Woodside and Corona Line) wasone of two lines of the NYC subway to have been operated jointly bytwo different divisions: the IRT and BMT. The line, built by the Cityof New York, began April 21st, 1917 with IRT trains running between42nd St / Grand Central and Alburtis Avenue (now 103rd St.), and jointoperati...
25 February 1885: East River Tunnel Railroad Company was incorporated22 July 1887: Reorganized as the New York and Long Island Railroad Company7 January 1888: First proposed route mapped out.1892: Route for tunnel finally settled upon.34th Street-Hudson Yards
7 Around 2005, planning for the new 34th Street-Hudson Yards station wasbegun in earnest, as it was a key component of New York City's bid forthe 2012 Olympic Games. Despite not winning the Games, bonds wereissued in 2006 to fund the extension, and in 2007, the $1.1 billioncontract was let. Construction began in 2008, with tunnelingcompleted in 2010. Outfitting the tunnels and station took anotherfive years. The station was opened on September 13, 2015; however a secondaryentrance at 35th Str...
Times Square
7 While built at different times (1904, 1917-1918, and 1927), 42nd Street-Times Square is a massive station complex, comprising fourstations, on the IRT Times Square-Grand Central Shuttle,IRT West Side Line, BMT Broadway Line, and IRT Flushing Line,all joined together by a vast mezzanine and underground warren ofconnecting passageways; and a fifth station a long way west byunderground passageway, on the IND 8th Avenue Lineat 42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal. In 1999, a $244 million dol...
5th Avenue
7 One island platform in between two tracks. Ornamentation is limitedto a numeral "5" in the tile band. The station has a full lengthmezzanine directly above the platform and tracks. The full-time farecontrol is at the east end. Exits lead to the south side of 42ndStreet outside the New York Public Library, and via a long passagewayto the larger mezzanine area of the IND subway line at 42nd Street &6th Avenue. Artwork Under Bryant Park(Samm Kunce, 2002) Transfer to IND 6th Avenue Line
Steinway Tunnel Opening (1915), New York Times, June 20, 1915. Two Lines of the Dual System In Operation (1915). Public Service Record, June, 1915. Important Rapid Transit Link Opened (Flushing-Ely Extension) (1916), Electric Railway Journal, November, 1916. The Steinway Tunnels (1960), David Rogoff, Electric Railroads, Issue #29, April 1960, Elect...
By Mark S. Feinman, Peggy Darlington, and David Pirmann. Queensborough Plaza track diagram by SPUI at wikimedia commons.
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The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, [14] an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). [15]
The Flushing–Main Street station (signed as Main Street on entrances and pillars, and Main St–Flushing on overhead signs) is the eastern ( railroad north) terminal on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway, located at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Downtown Flushing, Queens. [5] It is served by the 7 local train at all times ...
Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 4 & 38, 1914-1921 (bulk 1914-1915) The 3,496 Contract Three, Route 4 & 38 photographs show the construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line from Times Square to Chambers Street (the 1 train, 2 train, and 3 train) and from Chambers Street to South Ferry in Manhattan (the 1 train).
Sep 10, 2011 · A line from 125th Street (near today's Henry Hudson Pkwy) crosstown, to and across the East River, to Astoria, Queens, likely connecting to the BMT Astoria Line. A new subway line, sometimes two tracked, sometimes four tracked, from approximately the Hunters Point Ave station on today's Flushing Line in Queens, heading in a southeasterly ...
Aug 4, 2017 · Then: Main Street, Flushing, in 1923 G. W. Pullis/New York Transit Museum Collection 6 of 6 Now: Main Street, Flushing, in 2016 John Sanderson/Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum
