User:Kew Gardens 613/NYSTC Annual Reports
Third Annual Report, 1924[edit]
Subway construction[edit]
Queensboro Subway Extension[edit]
Flushing Extension[edit]
- Revised plan crossovers 5th Avenue temporary terminal
Fort Hamilton Extension[edit]
Fourteenth Street-Eastern Line[edit]
- Modification-crossover addition to permit partial operation, ramp to LIRR yard
Nassau Street Line[edit]
Dual Operations in Queens[edit]
- Studies, switchback track
Station facilities[edit]
- BMT lengthening
- Some work IRT 10-cars
- 96th Street mezzanine at 94th Street
- Yankee Stadium stairways
- Additional entrances NE/SE corners Canal and Centre Streets
- Lawrence Street station
- 168th Street elevators
- Additional mezzanine southern end Wall Street/William Street
- Drawings Williamsburg Bridge Plaza station
- Waiting rooms northbound platforms-passengers waiting to change trains Kingsbridge Road, 219th Street
- Improve Dyckman Street entrance
- Lengthening Pennsylvania station
- Platform extension Jackson Avenue station
- New entrances Grand Central, building openings
- Passageway Union Square
- Lengthening platforms Canal Street
- Waterproofing track floors over mezzanines-White Plains Road, Jerome Avenue
- Telephone installation
- Entrances constructed through private property
- NE corner of 23rd Street and Fourth Avenue
- SE corner of Fulton Street and Broadway
- 501 Fulton Street-Brooklyn
- 571 Fulton Street and 32 DeKalb Avenue-Brooklyn
- Standardization of signs
- Transformer closets for emergency lighting
- New entrance to Borough Hall station
- Escalator well construction-Park Place, Borough Hall
- New double crossover north of Times Square-Broadway Line
Yards[edit]
- Inspection shed Jerome Avenue Yard, 180th Street Yard
- Studies 239th Street Yard
- Siting of Westchester Avenue Yard
- Addition Lenox Avenue shops
- Coney Island Yard drawings
Miscellaneous[edit]
- Newsstands
- Temporary facilities Queensboro Plaza
- Bridge over South Brooklyn Railway
- Emergency lighting
- Widening 60th Street, 52nd Street, 57th Street, 22nd Street, Canal Street
- Ventilation exhaust chamber Broadway, fan chamber connection Times Square
- Removal of rock reef over Whitehall-Montague Street Tubes
- Raising street grade, Long Island City
- New automatic turnstile
- New electrical substation Roosevelt Avenue, Queens
- Equipping all cars with multiple door control
- Installation of ventilating equipment-deep level subway sections
- Block signals-elevated lines
- Substituting steel cars for wooden equipment on elevateds
- IRT trailer cars
- Signage emergency exits-deep stations
- Experimental signal-key-by West End Line 38th Street
- Ventilating equipment Broadway Line
- Signal changes-improvement signal tower installations-train indication system
- 50 new steel trailer cars
- Changes 60-wooden cars for use in Queens
Studies[edit]
- Strength of Jamaica Line elevated structure for steel subway cars
- Proposed IRT improvements, i.e. express station Columbus Circle, 23rd Street, improvements at 96th Street, 137th Street loop
- Replacement stairways 33rd/6th with entrances through Gimbel's and Saks'
- Relieve congestion Grand Central-railing study-capacity-bottleneck
- Extension to Yonkers-Putnam Division
- Increased power capacity
- Connection-Myrtle Avenue El and Fourth Avenue subway-study-change Bridge Street elevated
- Study-power supply 14th Street Line
- Recommendation use excess ducts under-river tunnel-telephone cables
- Strengthening existing elevated lines Brooklyn
- Moving platform-42nd Street-replace shuttle
- Additional facilities for LIRR at Pennsylvania station
- Automatic protection-surface cars-steep grades in NYC
Surveys[edit]
- Straightening 157th Street entrances
- Lengthening platforms
- Northern portion of Route 78 St. Nicholas Avenue, including tentative station location
- Brooklyn Crosstown Line Routes 70-B and 70-A-1, including tentative station location
- Eighth Avenue-Amsterdam Avenue Line
- Lafayette Avenue Line
- Sewer design
- Preliminary surveys Westchester Avenue Storage yard
- Borings for Flushing extension, Coney Island Yard, Westchester Yard, Central Park West
Proposed lines[edit]
Parkway Rapid Transit Line[edit]
Route 70-A – Jackson Avenue, Newtown Creek and Manhattan Avenue Route
Route 70-A-1 – North Jane Street, Jackson Avenue, Newtown Creek and Manhattan Avenue Route
Route 70-B – Manhattan Avenue, Roebling Street and Bedford Avenue Route
Route 70-C – Bedford Avenue, Fulton Street and Livingston Street Route
Route 70-D — Bedford Avenue-Brighton Beach Railway Connection
Route 70-C-1 – Bedford Avenue, Fulton Street and Livingston Street Route, Revised
Route 75-F – Eighth Avenue Route, 30th Street to 59th Street
Route 76 – Lafayette Avenue Route – Bedford Avenue to Flatbush Avenue
Route 78 – Central Park West, Manhattan Avenue and St. Nicholas Avenue Route
Route 78-A – St. Nicholas Avenue, Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue
Route 78-B – Central Park, Eighth Avenue and St. Nicholas Avenue Route
Route 78-C – Fort Washington Avenue Route, 175th Street to Overlook Terrace
Route 79 – Broadway, Columbus Avenue and Manhattan Avenue Route 59th Street to 114th Street
Route 79-A – Seventh Avenue-Broadway Connection 59th Street and Seventh Avenue to 61st Street and Broadway