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The IND's 1st 13 Months (1932-1933) [A Timeline] |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Sun Oct 6 14:28:55 2013 Well, as tomorrow on October 7, 2013 will be the 80th Anniversary of the Independent Subway System's Smith Street-Prospect Park Line extension from Bergen Street to Church Avenue, here is just a simple timeline of openings and services that had occurred in the early days of the IND (1932-33) within the first thirteen months of operation...9/10/1932 - 8th Avenue main line between 207th Street-Broadway and Chambers Street-Hudson Terminal in Manhattan opens, with 28 stations opened in total at the time. "A" express and "AA" local trains amongst a fleet of 300 R-1 cars (#100-399) provide the service at first. 2/1/1933 - Extension from Chambers Street-Hudson Terminal to Jay Street-Borough Hall in Brooklyn, with an immediate station opened at Broadway-Nassau Street (now Fulton Street). High Street-Brooklyn Bridge station along this extension did not open until 6/24/1933. 3/20/1933 - Extension one-stop from Jay Street-Borough Hall to Bergen Street-Smith Street in Brooklyn, with "A" trains using the line. 7/1/1933 - New extension via the Concourse line going into from 145th Street (lower level) to 205th Street-Bainbridge/Perry Avenues in the Bronx. "C" express and "CC" local trains provide the service there, with a fleet of 500 R-4 cars (#400-899) being placed in passemnger service for the new extended lines there were to be opened real soon. Meanwhile, "AA" local train service is discontinued (but will resume again on 12/15/1940), and "A" express trains make stops at 155th Street and 163rd Street in its place. 8/19/1933 - New extension to Queens via the 53rd Street Line going into from 50th Street-8th Avenue (lower level) to Roosevelt Avenue-Jackson Heights, with "E" trains making all the stops along this route. 23rd Street-Ely Avenue would open along that stretch as an added station on 8/28/1939. Also, the first section of a new Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown line with "GG" trains in service opens south of Queens Plaza towards its temporary terminal at Nassau Avenue in Brooklyn. 10/7/1933 - The final IND extension to open during the calendar year of 1933 was the Smith Street-Prospect Park line in Brooklyn from Bergen Street-Smith Street to Church Avenue-McDonald Avenue, with "A" trains using the route. Most notable along this route are two above ground, elevated stations at Smith-9th Street (located 87.5 feet above street level) and 4th Avenue-9th Street (with its impressive arch structure design). Afterward, there will be no new line extensions to be opened on the Independent Subway System until 1/1/1936 with the opening of the Houston Street-Essex Street route between West 4th Street-Washington Square and East Broadway-Rutgers Street. The R-6 groupings of new subway cars would start to come in 1935-36. -William A. Padron ["Independent System"] |
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