User:Kew Gardens 613/NYSTC Annual Reports

= Third Annual Report, 1924 =

Flushing Extension

 * Revised plan crossovers 5th Avenue temporary terminal

Fourteenth Street-Eastern Line

 * Modification-crossover addition to permit partial operation, ramp to LIRR yard

Dual Operations in Queens

 * Studies, switchback track

Station facilities

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

Parkway Rapid Transit Line
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