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For The Book of First Runs - 3/12/1906. |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Wed Mar 12 08:21:43 2014 This Date In NYC Transit History: Monday, March 12, 1906 [108 years ago]...The Interborough Rapid Transit Company expanded passenger service on this date back then its Broadway Boulevard route [today's #1 line] into the upper portion of Manhattan and the Washington Heights-Inwood neighborhood, from 157th Street-Broadway to 215th Street-Amsterdam Avenue [later as 10th Avenue] and then into a temporary terminal at 221st Street-Broadway [the intersection of 9th Avenue and Broadway]. Not all stations were ready to be opened yet on that date, with 168th Street on 4/14/1906, 181st Street on 5/30/1906, and 191st Street much later on 1/14/1911 [that station plans became known as of 9/23/1904 but built afterward, plus its pedestrian passengerway to 190th Street and Broadway opened on 3/8/1913]. Initial service in that area, according to a 1906 map seen on Dave's website, was by shuttle service between 157th Street and 221st Street [9th Avenue] via the longest railroad type tunnel [the Fort George Tunnel] built through solid rock, then via elevated structure north of Dyckman Street-Nagle Avenue. To give you an idea was what the landscape area was like when the IRT went into the further reaches of Manhattan Island, amd obviously would forever changed in time after the subway would go up there, here are a few linked images... Dyckman Street, IRT #1 Line, 11/14/1906. Dyckman Street, IRT #1 Line, Year 1910. 207th Street, IRT #1 Line, Year 1906 [1]. 207th Street, IRT #1 Line, Year 1906 [2]. 207th Street, IRT #1 Line, Year 1910. -William A. Padron ["10th Avenue"] |
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