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| | IRT - BMT - IND: A Brief History of the Subway |
 | | The names IRT, BMT, and IND were the names of the three competing transit agencies prior to city takeover in the 40s. |
 | | The BMT lines were the Broadway Subway and Nassau Street Subway in Manhattan, the 14th St-Eastern District line from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and Fourth Ave, West End, and Culver lines in Brooklyn. |
 | | The Chrystie Street connection in Manhattan, which opened in November, 1967, unified the Manhattan Bridge lines of the BMT with the Sixth Avenue lines of the IND, such that trains from Brooklyn now had access to all of the BMT and IND trunk lines in Manhattan (6th, 8th, Broadway, and Nassau St.). |
| www.nycsubway.org /faq/briefhist.html (762 words) |
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