Things to do in NYC. Event Cruises. About Us. Contact Us. Live Map. Buy with confidence: take up to 24 months to use the tickets after purchase. Single Ride Pass. Kids age Please select number of adults or kids. Night Tour. New York City's Subway Turns : Information on the original contract can be found here, along with a history of the subway. Construction of the First Line The first line of the New York City subway was built using the "cut-and-cover" process: open excavation, blasting, and brute work by men with pickaxes at night followed by removal of debris by day.
Opening Day The completed first line opened on Oct. This issue deals with investment in transit companies including BRT. History of the Independent Subway : This article from the official NYC subway website outlines the creation of ICOS and provides information on the routes that were taken over and built.
Post-War Changes American involvement in World War II and the use of raw materials and labor for the war effort made subway expansion in the s nonexistent.
New York City Transit: History and Chronology : A timeline of subway advancements and additions through the s and s can be found here. The Mostly True Story of Helvetica and the New York Subway : For more information on the standardization of the subway's route and sign colors, font, and naming system, read here. Graffiti and Danger Underground Graffiti artists began taking over New York City in the s, and the subway was hit especially hard.
The Subway System in the s and s : This article focuses on the subway during decades plagued with crime. MTA New York Transit's State of Good Repair Report : Here, the expenditures made in the s and s under the "state of good repair" initiative are compared to those continued in the s. Metro's Situational Approach to Preventing Subway Crime : This article discusses additional measures taken in the s and s to protect subway commuters from crime.
Modern Challenges Several changes to the New York City subway system have taken place in the 21st century. Major Improvements to the Subway System : Changes to the system in the 21st century are covered here. Subway Token Example : Photos of the most common subway token from can be found here, along with a brief description of the token's history.
Field is required. On opening day, Mayor McClellan so enjoyed his stint as engineer that he stayed at the controls all the way from City Hall to rd Street. Every day, some 4. No matter how crowded or dirty, the subway is one New York City institution few New Yorkers—or tourists—could do without.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Complicated and tension-filled negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union finally result in a plan to end the two-week-old Cuban Missile Crisis. A frightening period in which nuclear holocaust seemed imminent began to come to an end. Since President John F. The U. Justice Department announces that the U. The figure—1,, men and women were in state and federal prisons—did not even include local prisons, where an estimated , prisoners were It was not long before this new transportation facility was overtaken by the City's growth and more subways had to be built.
To this day, the City has an active continuing reconstruction and rehabilitation program for updating its extensive accumulation of subway installations. The first subway was a trailblazer in construction techniques. Concrete jack arches between steel beams and columns for subway roof and sidewalls, extensive use of reinforced concrete, shield driven underwater tunnels lined with cast iron segments, concrete-lined tunnels mined through earth and rock, and elevated steel structures set the pattern for successful rail rapid transit construction for many years.
Many tall buildings had already been erected in lower and midtown Manhattan and construction methods had to be adapted to protect these buildings that lined the subway route. Maintaining street traffic, which included electric surface cars, required elaborate and substantial decking over the subway excavation.
Networks of subsurface infrastructure—sewers, water mains, gas piping, electric power lines, telephone and telegraph conduits—had to be maintained and re-routed to make room for construction of the first subway line. Great strides were also made in the field of electric power generation.
A large powerhouse built next to the West Side Highway between 58th and 59th Streets supplied the electric power needed to run the subway trains. Covering an area of 3 acres 1. Electric power generation had progressed considerably since the turn of the century but at that time the power plant and eight substations along the subway route represented bold advances.
The original subway opened in following four years of construction. The first New York City subway would lead to many innovations: introduction of the first all-steel subway car, installation of an efficient interlocking block system with overlapping track circuits and automatic trippers, which keep trains a certain distance apart, and the devising of a button that automatically stops a train once the motorman's hand is removed from the control panel.
A challenging engineering feat requiring three types of construction, the underground rapid transit lines of the IRT were later extended to the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens.
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