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K (Eighth Avenue Local)
The K Eighth Avenue Local, earlier the AA, was a rapid transit service of the New York City Subway. Its route bullet was colored on station signs, car rollsigns, and the official subway map since it ran on the IND Eighth Avenue Line. The K operated during midday, evenings, and weekends, making local stops between 168th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line), 168th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan and World Trade Center (IND Eighth Avenue Line), World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan via Central Park West and Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. During late night hours, the A express made local stops on the IND Eighth Avenue Line. During rush hours, the , formerly the , ran between Bedford Park Boulevard (IND Concourse Line), Bedford Park Boulevard and Euclid Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line), Euclid Avenue, replacing the K as the local on IND Eighth Avenue Line, Eighth Avenue. It was discontinued in 1988 as part of a series of major service changes. History Serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R40 (New York City Subway Car)
The R40 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1967 to 1969 for the Independent Subway System, IND/Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, BMT B Division (New York City Subway), B Division. There were 400 cars in the R40 fleet, arranged in Twin unit, married pairs. Two versions of the R40 were manufactured: the original 200-car R40 order built in 1967–1968, and the supplementary 200-car R40A order built in 1968–1969, with the last 100 cars of the supplementary order re-designed with straight ends. The 200 original R40s and the first 100 R40As were unique for their futuristic 10-degree slanted end (designed by the firm Raymond Loewy, Raymond Loewy and Associates, and William Snaith Inc.) and were nicknamed the R40 Slants or simply Slants. Due to safety concerns, the final 100 cars of the R40A order were re-designed with traditional straight-ends by Sundberg-Ferar and became known unofficially as the "R40M" (M for modified). The first R40s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
207th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line)
207th Street may refer to: * 207th Street Yard, a rail yard of the New York City Subway system * 207th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line); the northern terminal of the train * 207th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line); serving the train * 207th Street (Manhattan), New York City {{road disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IND Concourse Line
The Concourse Line is an IND rapid transit line of the New York City Subway system. It runs from 205th Street in Norwood, Bronx, primarily under the Grand Concourse, to 145th Street in Harlem, Manhattan. It is the only B Division line in the Bronx, and also the only line in the Bronx that is entirely underground. Description and service The following services use part or all of the IND Concourse Line: The Concourse Line runs north to south through the Bronx and portions of Harlem, parallel to the mostly-elevated IRT Jerome Avenue Line which lies between two and four blocks to the west for its entire length in the Bronx. Due to the steep topography of the neighborhoods surrounding the Grand Concourse (under which most of the line runs), several stations were built with entrances both above and below the platforms, including 167th Street and Kingsbridge Road. Because the line also connected with Yankee Stadium at 161st Street and with the former Polo Grounds at 155th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
168th Street (New York City Subway)
The 168th Street station (formerly the Washington Heights–168th Street station) is an underground New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and IND Eighth Avenue Line. It is located at the intersection of 168th Street and Broadway in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan and served by the 1 and A trains at all times, and the C train at all times except late nights. It is the northern terminus for all C trains. The Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station was built for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), and was a station on the West Side Branch of the city's first subway line, which was approved in 1900. The station opened on April 14, 1906. The Eighth Avenue Line station was built as an express and terminal station for the Independent Subway System (IND) and opened on September 10, 1932, as part of the IND's first segment. The IRT station has two side platforms and two tracks. The IND station has two island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
145th Street (IND Concourse Line)
The 145th Street station is a bi-level express station on the IND Eighth Avenue and Concourse lines of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 145th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem and Hamilton Heights, Manhattan. It is served by the A and D trains at all times, the C train at all times except late nights, and the B train on weekdays only (the latter of which terminates here during select midday trips and all evening trips). History Planning and opening On August 3, 1923, the New York City Board of Estimate approved the Washington Heights Line, an extension of the Broadway Line to Washington Heights. The line was to have four tracks from Central Park West at 64th Street under Central Park West, Eighth Avenue, Saint Nicholas Avenue, and private property to 173rd Street, and two tracks under Fort Washington Avenue to 193rd Street. South of 64th Street, one two-track line would connect to the Broadway Line stubs at 57th Street, and another wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Program For Action
Metropolitan Transportation: A Program for Action, also known as simply the Program for Action, the Grand Design, or the New Routes Program, was a proposal in the mid-1960s for a large expansion of mass transit in New York City, created under then-Mayor John Lindsay. Originally published on February 29, 1968, the Program for Action was one of the most ambitious expansion plans in the history of the New York City Subway. The plan called for of tracks to be constructed, and more than 80% of the new trackage was to be built in the borough of Queens. The $2.9 billion plan also called for improvements to other modes of mass transit, such as the present-day Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad commuter rail systems, and further integration between mass transit and the Aviation in the New York metropolitan area, New York City-area airport system. Transport improvements built under the Program for Action were supposed to relieve overcrowding on existing transit modes in the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linea K Metropolitana Di New York
''Linea'' () is a genus of foraminifera belonging to the subfamily Rhabdammininae. It is a monotypic genus containing the sole species ''Linea simplex'' (). It was described in 1989 from samples of foraminifera collected at the Nares Abyssal Plain. The test of the organism consists of a flexible unbranched tube, several centimiters long, with a diameter of around 80 μm. Etymology The generic name comes from the Latin noun ''linea'' meaning string, due to the string-like appearance of the organism. The specific epithet comes from the Latin adjective ''simplex'' meaning plain, simple. Description ''Linea simplex'' has an overall string-like appearance, with a thin unbranching test in the shape of a flexible tube with a consistent diameter of around 80 μm. The tube is several centimeters long, irregularly filled by dark material, presumably stercomata. It is morphologically reminiscent of the genus '' Dendrophrya'', but differs in being unbranched. It also has similarities with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street (IND Rockaway Line)
Rockaway may refer to: Places in the United States New Jersey *Rockaway, New Jersey, a borough in Morris County *Rockaway Township, New Jersey, a township in Morris County * Rockaway Creek (New Jersey), a tributary of the Lamington River in Hunterdon County *Rockaway River, a tributary of the Passaic River New York *Rockaway, Queens, a peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens, on Long Island *Rockaway Avenue (other), subway stations in Brooklyn, New York City *Rockaway Boulevard, a boulevard in Southern Queens *Rockaway Inlet, a strait off Long Island, New York *Rockaway Parkway, a parkway in Brooklyn *East Rockaway, New York, a village in Nassau County on Long Island Elsewhere *Rockaway, Ohio, an unincorporated community *Rockaway Beach (other) *Rockaway Creek (California) Ships * , a United States Navy seaplane tender in commission from 1943 to 1946 * , a United States Coast Guard cutter in commission from 1949 to 1972 Other uses * ''Rockaway'' (2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City Subway Nomenclature
New York City Subway nomenclature is the terminology used in the New York City Subway system. The modern system was constructed and operated by multiple companies, which were unified into a single system in 1940. The process of integrating multiple systems, as well as over a century of service changes, have lead to a complexity of conventions around station naming, directionality and the routes themselves. In particular, the New York City Subway distinguishes between ''List of New York City Subway lines, lines'', or individual sections of subway, and ''List of New York City Subway services, services'', or train routes. Services are represented visually by grouped, color coded ''service bullets'', which have changed significantly over time. Current usage Each section of the subway has three identifying characteristics, ''line'', ''service'' and ''color''. Subway lines Sections of the physical infrastructure of the subway system are called ''lines'' and are identified by thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IND Sixth Avenue Line
The IND Sixth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in the United States. It runs mainly under Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, and continues south to Brooklyn. The B, D, F, and M trains, which use the Sixth Avenue Line through Midtown Manhattan, are colored . The B and D trains use the express tracks, while the F, <F> and M trains use the local tracks. The Sixth Avenue Line, constructed in stages during the 1930s, was the last trunk line built by the Independent Subway System (IND) before it was incorporated into the modern-day New York City Subway. It was more difficult to build than other subway trunk lines in New York City because construction had to proceed around, over, and under existing tunnels and elevated structures. The Sixth Avenue Line replaced the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)'s Sixth Avenue elevated, which closed in 1939. The first section of the line opened in 1936 from West Fourth Street to East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
