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  IND Eighth Avenue Line - Biocrawler
At this point, local tracks of both lines interconnect south of the station in another elaborate flying junction which allows local trains of either line to continue south on either the Eighth Avenue Line to Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn or on the Sixth Avenue Line to the Lower East Side and Brooklyn.
The Eighth Avenue Line, and the remainder of the IND system were built by the City of New York partly to provide modern rapid transit facilities and partly to compete with the private companies, the BMT and IRT.
A subway under Eighth Avenue was an early goal of transit planners in the city.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Eighth_Avenue_Line   (1796 words)

  
 IRT Lexington Avenue Line - Biocrawler
The Lexington Avenue Line (sometimes called the Lex or the IRT East Side Line) is one of the major IRT lines in the New York City Subway.
The part of the line from City Hall to 42nd Street was part of the original IRT line, opened on October 27, 1904.
The IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line also switched from shuttle operation at that time, and the 42nd Street Shuttle was formed along the old connection between the sides.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/IRT_Lexington_Avenue_Line   (1184 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of New York City Subway yards
The White Plains Road Line is a rapid transit line of the IRT division of the New York City Subway, serving the central Bronx.
The Concourse Line is a subway branch line of the New York City Subway system, extending from 205th Street in the Norwood section of the Bronx to join with the Eighth Avenue Line at 145th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan.
The Jamaica Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT Division of the New York Subway.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-New-York-City-Subway-yards   (1593 words)

  
 Reducing Subway Overcrowding at the Manhattan CBD Cordons - Vol. 1: The Queens Cordon
The LIRR Port Washington Line This line enters the northern portion of the corridor from the east near Shea Stadium, several block south of the Flushing line.
The Grand Concourse line was rerouted to connect with the Eighth Avenue line at 145th Street so that the IND would be able to serve all three of New York's main residential boroughs.
Connecting The Flushing Line It would be possible to connect the Flushing line to the 63rd'-Street line and have its trains run on the Sixth Avenue IND and Broadway BMT lines in Manhattan.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Central Avenue (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line)
Central Avenue is a New York City Subway station on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line.
Myrtle Avenue (or on some signage Myrtle Avenue–Broadway) is a two level elevated station on the New York City Subways BMT Jamaica Line.
The A Eighth Avenue Express and C Eighth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Central-Avenue-%28BMT-Myrtle-Avenue-Line%29   (2590 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
To the south, the Concourse Line tracks rise and merge with the Eighth Avenue Line, carrying the B onto the local tracks and the D onto the express tracks.
The line was to have four tracks from Central Park West at 64th Street under Central Park West, Eighth Avenue, Saint Nicholas Avenue, and private property to 173rd Street, and two tracks under Fort Washington Avenue to 193rd Street.
The majority of the Eighth Avenue Line, from Chambers Street north to 207th Street, was opened to the public just after midnight on September 10, 1932 after three days of operation on a normal schedule but without passengers.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=IND_Eighth_Avenue_Line   (1862 words)

  
 IND Sixth Avenue Line - Definition, explanation
The Sixth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the division of the New York City Subway system, running mostly under Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.
The Sixth Avenue Line begins at its north end as a two-track line splitting from the IND Eighth Avenue Line south of 59th Street-Columbus Circle at a flying junction, with connections to the local and express tracks.
The line then turns south to go under Sixth Avenue, merging with the IND 63rd Street Line and a connection to the IND Queens Boulevard Line to become a four-track line.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/i/in/ind_sixth_avenue_line.php   (828 words)

  
  IRT Flushing Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
East of this point, both the Flushing Line and the Astoria Line were operated by the IRT and the BMT; details on that dual operation are in the Background section.
The original intent of the line was to connect the Long Island Rail Road with the New York Central Railroad, one end of the tunnel being at the terminal of each railroad.
At Queensboro Plaza, the line met the BMT's 60th Street Tunnel, as well as a spur from the elevated IRT Second Avenue Line on the Queensboro Bridge.
www.1bx.com /en/IRT_Flushing_Line.htm   (3537 words)

  
 IND Eighth Avenue Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At this point, local tracks of both lines interconnect south of the station in another elaborate flying junction which allows local trains of either line to continue south on either the Eighth Avenue Line to Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn or on the Sixth Avenue Line to the Lower East Side and Brooklyn.
Additionally, the A, which had formerly used the express tracks on the Eighth Avenue Line south of 168th Street (the C's northern terminus), switched to local at 145th Street, serving the two local stations that were only served by the C (155th Street and 163rd Street–Amsterdam Avenue).
The Eighth Avenue Line, and the remainder of the IND system were built by the City of New York partly to provide modern rapid transit facilities and partly to compete with the private companies, the BMT and IRT.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IND_Eighth_Avenue_Line   (2048 words)

  
 shock of the new
The United Nations Headquarters on 1st Avenue was built from 1947-1953 by an international team of architects that included Le Corbusier of France; at the same time, the Lever House (built for the soap company) was rising on Park Avenue.
The passageway has been lined with old-time photos of the Staten Island Ferry from the 1930s (note that the ferry is about six blocks from Bowling Green station; ferry passengers have a much shorter walk from the BMT Whitehall Street station, which is inaccessible from here).
Atlantic Avenue, a major transfer point between the IND, BMT and IRT (and, perhaps, at one time, the LIRR), provides an interesting contrast between the original Heins and LaFarge terra cotta emblems, installed in 1908, and the el cheapo tile job done during a 1960s renovation.
www.forgotten-ny.com /SUBWAYS/modernsubs/modernsub.html   (2661 words)

  
 Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy&Health Sciences | LongIsland University
A, C, or G trains (Eighth Avenue Line) to Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street Station
The Brooklyn Campus is on the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues.
Bus fares to Manhattan (Port Authority Bus Terminal on West 42nd Street) are $7 from Newark, $9 from LaGuardia and $13 from Kennedy.
www.brooklyn.liu.edu /pharmacy/directions.html   (260 words)

  
 Indiana Biographies
FEE was born in Bloomington Township, Monroe County, Ind., June 18, 1832, and is the youngest of the children of William and Elizabeth (Orr) Fee.
SILAS GRIMES was born November 25,1839, in Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, Ind., and is the youngest of thirteen children born to James and Nancy (Woodward) Grimes.
HEADLEY was born in Randolph County, Va., February 14, 1822, and is the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Wilson) Headley, natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Meadows/8056/mrcinbioindex.html   (19394 words)

  
 14th Street-Eighth Avenue (New York City Subway) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
14th Street–Eighth Avenue is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the BMT Canarsie Line and the IND Eighth Avenue Line.
This is the southernmost Eighth Avenue Line station that is actually under Eighth Avenue itself; south of here, the line curves east to Sixth Avenue via Greenwich Avenue.
It is the western (railroad northern) terminal of the BMT Canarsie Line.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/14th_Street_(IND_Eighth_Avenue_Line_station)   (404 words)

  
 Gary the Magic City, page 1
P. Anderson Valentine, of Chicago, was later associated with Veeder and the packers' tract was identified on the maps as the Veeder-Valentine Tract.
The chainman conceived the idea of tieing the tape to the dog's collar, throwing a stick across the slough, sending the dog after the stick and then have the man on the other side call the dog—thus was the first engineering obstacle overcome.
The survey of Fifth Avenue, the city's principal east and west street, was made after the survey of Broadway to the Wabash tracks was completed.
www.dlib.indiana.edu /collections/steel/context/text/09.html   (4149 words)

  
 Painting the Town -- Museum of the City of New York
This first portion of the Eighth Avenue line, running from 207th Street and Broadway to Vesey Street (later the location of the World Trade Center), opened on September 10, 1932.
By 1940, additional sections of the line extended into Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, replacing some of the old elevated lines, opening new areas of the city to rapid transit, and improving existing service to parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
212, the IND was intended to be the "people's subway." To emphasize this point, the line's inauguration was held in the open at John Hancock Park, with the proceedings broadcast over WNYC, the New York City radio station.
www.mcny.org /collections/painting/pttcat68.htm   (383 words)

  
 The Brooklyn Kings - Contact Us
The Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University is served by all subway lines.
IRT: 4 or 5 trains (Lexington Avenue Line) or the 2 or 3 trains (Seventh Avenue Line) to Nevins Street Station
IND: A, C, or G trains (Eighth Avenue Line) to Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street Station
www.thebrooklynkings.com /contactus.asp   (83 words)

  
 Descendants of John Fleming - Part 6
In the large living room, which was the scene of the ceremony, sprays of Southern smilax formed an attractive background for the arrangements of white gladioli, which carried out a soft color note in green and white.
In the smaller living room where the receiving line stood, green foliage and red Nanbina berries were banked on the mantel and placed in other parts of the room.
Holmes are residing in the Zurn apartments on Orange avenue.
www.mindspring.com /~jtfleming/jf-6.htm   (14227 words)

  
 Avenue Hotel
The stop is where Saint Nicholas Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue intersect.
Mount Eden Avenue is a New York Subway station.
Burnside Avenue is the only express stop on the Jerome Avenue Line of the New York Subway.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/14/avenue-hotel.html   (610 words)

  
 IUAA: Jill Behrman: A big year for news
Nationally, the group — or an affiliated animal rights group —has claimed responsibility for a multi-million-dollar arson of a Colorado ski resort under construction, destruction of research labs in Wisconsin, and of major vandalism to housing tracts deemed by the group to be unfriendly to the environment.
Judy Kirby, the driver of the car that raced north in the southbound lanes of Ind. 67 for more than a mile before crashing head on into a van coming south, was charged with seven counts of murder.
Eighth place on the list was the "Big Dig," the huge drainage project that closed down Kirkwood Avenue over several spring and summer months.
www.indiana.edu /~alumni/iuaa/jillbehrman/ht/001230_HT_A1_AEP00348.html   (1462 words)

  
 IND Sixth Avenue Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sixth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the IND division of the New York City Subway system, running mostly under Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.
The other is just south of 59th Street–Columbus Circle, where a two-track line splits from the IND Eighth Avenue Line at a flying junction (with connections to the local and express tracks), immediately turns east under 53rd Street, and crosses the IND Queens Boulevard Line, which parallels it just to the north.
This line then turns south to go under Sixth Avenue, merging with the branch from 57th Street and a connection to the IND Queens Boulevard Line to become a four-track line.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IND_Sixth_Avenue_Line   (1349 words)

  
 MSAC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
FDR Drive/ Harlem River Drive north to179th Street exit, follow ramp to Amsterdam Avenue, right onto Amsterdam Avenue, proceed north to the Main Campus area The MSAC is on Amsterdam Ave.
Cross Bronx Expressway west to the Amsterdam Avenue Exit, follow signs to Amsterdam Avenue, at the light (181st Street) right onto Amsterdam Avenue, proceed north to the Main Campus area.
IND Eighth Avenue Line: "A" train to 181st Street Station.
www.yu.edu /athletics/directions/msac.htm   (274 words)

  
 OTOL Big Apple RailFest 2005: Parts A15 through A17   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Yes, 59th is an express stop on the Eighth Avenue IND line, but only a local stop on the Seventh Avenue IRT line.
From 100th Street, amidst the interlockings between the 1/9 and 2/3 lines, a third track begins in between the uptown and downtown tracks.
For most of its course from Hell Gate to the Hudson River, the Harlem River is the dividing line between the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx.
pages.prodigy.net /kevinkorell/barf2005/parta15a16a17.htm   (1289 words)

  
 AppleFest 2003: Part 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
This subway line passed directly underneath the WTC's shopping concourse; the only entrances to the subway's Cortlandt Street station were directly across from the top of the PATH escalators.
Like most of the other local stops on this line, there may once have been a connection between the northbound and southbound platforms, but today it is covered up.
There are connections to and from the inner track, permitting some diversions between the Lexington Avenue and 7th Avenue lines for trackwork or emergencies.
pages.prodigy.net /kevinkorell/applefest2003/part4.htm   (1228 words)

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