User:Epicgenius/sandbox/Archive 1

 

Source
The NY Times got this transcription wrong.

This is obvious satire.

Someone cited a game here.

Sources

 * Most, Doug, The race underground : Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America’s first subway, First edition, New York : St. Martin’s Press, February 2014. ISBN 9780312591328.

Web

 * PlaNYC and update
 * RPA CBTC NYC
 * p. 1 2 3 4, NY Mag sources for NoMad, Manhattan
 * History of the NYC Subway signage, for use in New York City Subway tiles and another article about signage
 * SoHo street sources
 * Olympic bid 2012 NYC and effects
 * Roosevelt Island transport
 * South Ferry Terminal
 * NYC Parks archive

NYC subway track maps

 * http://b24blog.blogspot.com/p/468-stations-842-miles.html
 * http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway_Track_Maps

Watchlist

 * User:Epicgenius/Watchlist
 * NYPD IP address edits, Original here.

Typo list
My preparsed typo list 1 (counties), 2 (NYPT), 2(a) (days of the week (doesn't merit its own list since it's so short, but merits its own page because it's not related to NYPT)

AWB Tasks – Regex – Typos

VERY USEFUL ANTI-SPAM TOOLS

 * Check if the site a phishing site from PhishTank
 * Home page of Web of Trust, to check reputations of sites

Even more
Special:LinkSearch
 * Clean up these dead links
 * Rapid transit watchlist

Template
/IRT Flushing Line

Template testing
See also:
 * /NYCS trains
 * /NYCS trains/1
 * /NYCS trains/2
 * /NYCS trains/3
 * /NYCS trains/4
 * /NYCS trains/5
 * /NYCS trains/6
 * /NYCS trains/7
 * /NYCS trains/A
 * /NYCS trains/B
 * /NYCS trains/C
 * /NYCS trains/D
 * /NYCS trains/E
 * /NYCS trains/F
 * /NYCS trains/G
 * /NYCS trains/H
 * /NYCS trains/J/Z
 * /NYCS trains/K
 * /NYCS trains/L
 * /NYCS trains/M
 * /NYCS trains/N
 * /NYCS trains/Q
 * /NYCS trains/R
 * /NYCS trains/S
 * /NYCS trains/T
 * /NYCS trains/V
 * /NYCS trains/W

Image map
Example
 * Image Map Edit
 * Online image map editor, supports all shapes, Extension:ImageMap compatible.
 * Basic on-line image mapper.

Dual Contracts links
A 1912 description of the Dual Contracts expansion published by the Public Service Commission. A 1913 guide to the Dual Systems period of subway expansion, by the New York City Public Service Commission. Outlines the Dual System plans, routes and stations of the new lines, contract costs, etc. (6 chapters) A series of articles published by Engineering News in 1914 detailing various aspects of the construction of the Dual Contracts subway lines. (12 chapters) This 1918 book by James Blaine Walker details the politics behind the development of New York's elevated lines, its first subway, and the Dual Contracts. In 1924, B.M.T. Chairman Gerhard M. Dahl published this book (an expansion of the above articles "Build More Transit Lines" and "Rush Hour Relief For Passengers") as propaganda in the fight to get Mayor Hylan to expand transit lines in New York City. This 1960 article from the ERA details the history of the Steinway Tunnel: Ground broken in 1892, and not used for subway service until 1915, this tunnel was an important link in the Queens portion of the Dual Contracts. Engineering News, March 10, 1910. A 1910 report on the so-called Tri-borough system, which was the genesis of the Dual Contracts. The Tri-borough plan included the Centre Street, Lexington Avenue, and the Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) subway lines. William Gibbs McAdoo's 1911 offer to build the Triborough System. Public Service Record, June, 1915. Public Service Record, November, 1917. Public Service Record, October–November, 1918. Electric Railway Journal editorial criticizing Hylan and the Board of Estimate for problems completing the new subway lines of the Dual Contracts. Two 1924 articles about the need for completion of the 14th St.-Eastern (Canarsie) and Nassau St. lines, and overcrowding on the Williamsburg Bridge routes. New York Times, June 19 &amp; June 20, 1915. Public Service Record, June, 1915. Public Service Record, July, 1917. Public Service Record, September, 1917. New York Times, January 1, 1918. Electric Railway Journal, January 12, 1918. New Line Supplements the Existing Extension of the Interborough Subway and Affords a Direct Route Without Transfer Crosstown and Downtown From Queens Borough. (New York Times, March 16, 1919.) ''Man Shot Through River Bed From [Montague Street] Tunnel Was Never Squeezed So Tightly Before. Kept His Mouth Tight Shut. Body Of Third Victim Found-- Damage To New Subway More Serious Than Was Thought. (New York Times'', February 21, 1916.) New York Times, March 16, 1919. A 1915 description of the engineering effort involved in building the IRT West Side Line's Harlem River Tubes, with many illustrations and photographs. Scientific American, July 1918. Public Service Record, July, 1918. New York Times, August 2, 1918. Public Service Record, June–September, 1918. Electric Railway Journal, August, 1918. Public Service Record, December, 1918. Scientific American, 1919. New York Times, March 16, 1919. Also from the New York Times: Clark Street Tunnel Ready (April 11, 1919), Clark Street Tunnel Tested (April 12, 1919), Fear B.R.T. Strike- Rush Use of Tunnel (April 13, 1919), New Subway Service Between Brooklyn and Manhattan Boroughs (April 13, 1919), Open Clark Street Line (April 16, 1919), Lessens Subway Crush (April 17, 1919), Dual System is Nearly Completed (May 4, 1919). Public Service Record, December, 1916. New York Times, June 20, 1915. Electric Railway Journal, November, 1916. Public Service Record, March, 1917. Public Service Record, June, 1917.
 * The Dual System of Rapid Transit (1912)
 * New Subways for New York: The Dual System of Rapid Transit (1913)
 * The New York Rapid Transit Railway Extensions (1914)
 * Fifty Years of Rapid Transit (1918)
 * Transit Truths (1924)
 * The Steinway Tunnels (1960)
 * A New Subway Line for New York City, The Triborough System: Its History (1910)
 * The Subway Problem (1911)
 * Two Lines of the Dual System In Operation (1915)
 * Brooklyn Approaches to Downtown Tubes (1917)
 * The Design of Subways (1918)
 * Mayor Hylan Held Responsible for New York's Subway Ills (1925)
 * Build More Transit Lines – Rush Hour Relief for Passengers... (1924)
 * Brooklyn's Subway Will Open Today (Fourth Ave. Line) (1915)
 * The Fourth Avenue Subway in Brooklyn (1915)
 * Last Down-town Tunnel Holed Through (1917)
 * Broadway Subway Now Open (1917)
 * Opening of the Broadway Subway (1918)
 * Broadway Subway Opens (1918)
 * Broadway-Fifty-ninth Street Extension of B.R.T. Subway, Opened to Queensboro Plaza... (1920)
 * Tells How It Feels to Go Up In A Geyser (1916)
 * New Rapid Transit Link in Operation (Culver Line) (1919)
 * The Construction of the Harlem River Tubes (1915)
 * Opening a New Link of New York's Vast Subway System (1918)
 * Opening of Seventh Avenue and Lexington Avenue Lines (1918)
 * IRT H System Opens (1918)
 * The H Lines In Service (1918)
 * H System Subway Service Started – H System Trouble (1918)
 * Design of the Diagonal Station and Connection (1918)
 * The Park Place Subway Station Escalators (1919)
 * New Clark Street Tunnel Completed... (1919)
 * Under-River Tunnel Headings Meet (1916)
 * Steinway Tunnel Opening (1915)
 * Important Rapid Transit Link Opened (Flushing-Ely Extension) (1916)
 * Operation of the White Plains Road Line (1917)
 * Service Begun on the Jerome Avenue Line (1917)

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