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A fictitious service guide of the IND division, New York Subway, had the 1939 Second System plans been built after World War 2. This service diagram is based off of the original Board of Transportation map of 1937 showing the new IND 8th Ave Lines, and the modern update done by Chris Neuherz.
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The BMT Broadway line opened in 1917 as the first subway to bring into Manhattan the many existing elevated lines that once terminated in downtown
Brooklyn or City Hall in Manhattan (via the Brooklyn Bridge). When the original IRT subway was built through lower Manhattan businesses along Broadway fought the line running up Broadway for fear of losing business. When the subway opened and proved an instant hit they soon changed their tune and a subway under Broadway was brought back to the drawing board.
The N train runs local from Ditmars Blvd in Astoria along an elevated track to Queensboro Plaza, entering Manhattan under 60th St and runs to 14th St as a local train. After 14th St the N runs express to Canal St then over the Manhattan Bridge to Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center. Opened in 1915 to replace the elevated trains which ran through South Brooklyn the 4th Ave subway runs from Atlantic Ave at Flatbush Ave south to 95th St in Bay Ridge. The N runs express to 59th St where it swings east along the Sea Beach line, one of the original steam railroads to Coney Island converted to rapid transit.
The R train runs all local from Forest Hills along the Queens Blvd subway to Whitehall in lower Manhattan then through a tunnel into downtown Brooklyn before making its way south along 4th Ave to 95th St Bay Ridge. The Broadway line was built so that express trains would run over the Manhattan Bridge and local trains would either terminate in lower Manhattan or run into Brooklyn via the tunnel under the East River. This tunnel also connects with the BMT Jamaica line to allow through service for trains from Williamsburg.
The Q runs all local in Brooklyn along the Brighton Beach line (another former steam railroad) into
Manhattan over the bridge. Running express to 57th St it terminates here during most times but at rush periods it extends into Astoria.
The 2nd Ave subway opened New Years Day 2017 from 57th St/7th Ave to 96th St/2nd Ave. After nearly a century in planning and a decade of digging the line will be the first part of a larger subway stretching the length of the east side of Manhattan. Phase II will extend it further north to 125th St.
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The Independent City-owned Subway System, IND, was created as alternative to the private traction companies, Interborough Rapid Transit Co., IRT, and the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Co., BMT. The IND broke ground on the 8th Ave Line in 1925 with plans for lines to Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. In 1929 the IND released an ambitious plan for expanding the initial system. This plan became known as the IND Second System. In 1940 the City of New York was able to purchase the private companies and combine all three systems under the NYC Board of Transportation. In 1953 this evolved into the NY Transit Authority and in 1968 the state took control of the subways as part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The purpose of this map is the show the history of official subway expansion plans which can be broadly broken down into four phases: the 1929 Second System plan, the 1939 Second System plan, post-World War II plans, and the 1968 MTA Plan for Action.
The map acts as a “choose your own adventure” where by each variant of every plan is drawn. The reader can pick and choose which lines they think could have been built and what the system might have looked like today if they had.
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For more information about the map see the original blog post here.
The IRT Flushing line caries the 7 line (local and express service) from Times Sq-42nd St to Flushing Main St and runs from Midtown Manhattan through Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside, Elmhurst, Corona, and Flushing, Queens. Because of the high concentration of so many diverse ethnic enclaves though which the Flushing line runs it is colloquially known as the “International Line”.
The line has its origins well before the New York City subway opened (in 1904). Originally conceived as a commuter rail tunnel to bring Long Island trains into midtown from Long Island City the tunnel broke ground in 1892 but was shut a year later after a series of accidents. August Belmont stepped in a decade later and financed the tunnel himself as a way to run trolley cars as shuttle service. Opened in 1907, the city purchased the tunnel in 1913 to retrofit it for the expanding subway system.
The Flushing line runs elevated from Hunts Point Ave to Mets-Willets Point Ave where it dives into a short tunnel before terminating at Main St. The elevated sections of track are built with a third track for express service which only makes stops at Queensboro Plaza, Woodside-61st St, Junction Blvd, Mets-Willets Point, and Flushing-Main St. The elevated section through Sunnyside is famous for its ornately designed concrete viaduct along Queens Blvd.
In 2015 an extension west was opened to a new terminal at 34th St-Hudson Yards to serve the new mini-city growing above the LIRR train yards behind Penn Station.
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The LIRR Hempstead Branch is a short branch off the Main Line from Jamaica to Hempstead. The branch is all that remains of a much larger system, the Central Railroad of Long Island, which opened in 1873 from Flushing to Babylon. The Central RR was founded by Alexander Turney Stewart as a way to develop land in central Long Island which eventually became Garden City. Over the next 20 years the LIRR bought the rights to the Central RR and various other lines and began to consolidate them. Due to redundancy the Central RR was cut up into smaller branches and spurs and connected to the Main Line. The LIRR had a similar Hempstead Branch which ran off the Main Line at Mineola and service to Hempstead ran along both branches until 1935 when the line was consolidated due to grade separation construction.
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