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After 1913, all lines built for the IRT and most lines for the BRT were built by the city and leased to the companies. The first line of the city-owned and operated Independent Subway System (IND) opened in 1932, intended to compete with the private systems and replace some of the elevated railways.
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, an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
- Is The New York City Subway The Oldest Subway in The World?
- Why Did New York Get A Subway System?
- What Is Pneumatic Power
- Beach’s Subway Actually Was built. . . Kind of
- Construction Workers Who Built The NYC Subway System
- Challenges of Construction
- Accidents & Injuries
- How Was The New York City Subway constructed?
- The First Subway Line in New York City
- Line Extensions
Many people believe that, since the NYC Subway is one of the most notorious subway systems, it is also the oldest. It is not the oldest subway. In fact the subway in London England - the London Underground - is! The London Underground opened in 1883, almost twenty years before the NYC Subway. Even the Paris Metro opened 4 years before the New York ...
It’s clear that subways were not invented for New York and were being built around the world before moving to the Big Apple. Alfred Ely Beach, an American inventor, publisher and patent lawyer from Springfield, Massachusetts designed the very first vision for a New York subway system. In the 1860s, traffic in the city was already getting notoriousl...
Pneumatic power is just like hydraulic power except hydraulic power uses liquid such as oil or gas and pneumatic power relies on gases and compressed air.
After a few demonstrations and pushback from City Hall and other governmental institutions, Beach apparently decided to build the tunnel in secretanyway. He has received a permit to build a pneumatic package delivery system and later changed the permit from two small tunnels to one large tunnel. He took this technicality and used it to build a sing...
There were three “classes” of construction workerswho helped to build the first iteration of the subway. A majority of the workers - about 7,700 of them - were unskilled immigrant workers. At the turn of the century in 1900, 1.3 of the 3.5 million people in New York City were immigrants. This workforce dug out the rubble, carried stones, dirt and g...
The New York subway construction came with many challenges. The underground of NYC was full of groundwater and bedrock. There were also man-made sewer lines, water mains, gas lines and even pneumatic mail tubes. These tubesare another interesting part of NYC History. The lines were used by the US Postal Service until 1953. The only known remains of...
According to a newspaper articlepublished on October 28th, 1904 in the New York Times, there were three major or more serious accidents that happened during the construction of the subway. The first was on January 27, 1902, when a storage shed for dynamite exploded. 6 people were killed and 125 were injured. More than $300,000 USD in property damag...
The first rail line used a Cut-and-Cover technique that was often used in tunnel construction back in the day. This method involved removing the top part of the earth - in this case, it was often road or sidewalk - “cutting” down into the earth, digging the tunnel, then using “I” beams to secure a ceiling and rebuilding the road on top of the tunne...
The very first line that was completed in 1904 was a 9.1 mile stretch of track that ran from City hall, under Lafayette Street, up to Park Ave & 42nd Street. It terminated at 154th Street Station in Harlem. The very first day it opened on October 27, 1904, 150,000 New Yorkers put on their Sunday best, paid the 5-cent fee and rode the subway line. T...
There have been many additional routes built and combined since 1904. The IRT - Interborough Rapid Transit Company - subway project was completed 4 years later, connecting the mainline to the Bronx and Brooklyn. The connection to Queens happened later on around 1915. The IND Subway Expansion - an independently owned and operated line - completed th...
27 de oct. de 2014 · While the New York City subway was not the first rapid transit system to be built (London, Paris, and Berlin — as well as Chicago and Boston — had already developed the capacity to shuttle...
24 de nov. de 2009 · At 2:35 on the afternoon of October 27, 1904, New York City Mayor George McClellan takes the controls on the inaugural run of the city’s innovative new rapid transit system: the subway.
The subway was opened starting on October 27, 1904, and during this time, riders paid 5 cents to ride the trains. The subway at this time was leased to IRTC (Interborough Rapid Transit Company), and the system was continuing to expand as ridership began to grow.
When was the NYC Subway Built? The ground was broken for the construction of New York City’s first subway on March 25th, 1900, in a ceremony presided over by Mayor Robert Van Wyck. The tracks would be constructed according to the routes outlined in 1894’s Rapid Transit Act.
