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On April 1, 1903, over a year before its first subway line opened, the IRT acquired the
Manhattan Railway Company by lease, gaining a monopoly on rapid transit in Manhattan. The IRT coordinated some services between what became its subway and elevated divisions, but all the lines of the former
409:(BRT) in order to expand the subway. The agreement also locked the subway fare at 5 cents for forty-nine years. The IRT unsuccessfully attempted to raise the fare to seven cents in 1929, in a case that went to the
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Several pieces of pre-unification IRT equipment have been preserved in various museums. While some of the equipment are operational, others are in need of restoration or are used simply as static displays.
1640:"CITY TRANSIT UNITY IS NOW A REALITY; Title to I.R.T. Lines Passes to Municipality, Ending 19-Year Campaign OPERATION CHANGE MADE Network of Subway, Surface Car and Bus Routes a $ 1,500,000,000 Investment"
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and in northern
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cars 4902, 5290, 5292, 5443, 5466, 5483 and 5600 have been preserved. Cars 4092, 5290, 5292, 5442 and 5483 are preserved by the
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Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World
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Expansion that Saved New York
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1452:"About New York; Alphabet Soup: Telling an IRT From a BMT"
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American Engineering Record in New York City
1564:. New York: New York University Press. pp. 2–3.
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1666:"The Official Guide of the Railways, January 1909"
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398:Manhattan elevateds have since been dismantled.
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3837:Transportation companies of the United States
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1733:Works by Interborough Rapid Transit Company
1622:Gilchrist v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.
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1402:History of the IRT subway before 1918
3847:1904 establishments in New York City
1723:Historic American Engineering Record
3832:History of the New York City Subway
2510:Lines with colors next to them are
1003: trains), under Nostrand Avenue
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474:and the rest of the system via the
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3807:Interborough Rapid Transit Company
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266:147.25 ft (44.88 m)
2516:New York City Subway service
1374:Other NYC Subway companies:
1228:Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
735:Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
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331:systems, to form the modern
173:; 120 years ago
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3383:LaGuardia Airport extension
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411:United States Supreme Court
370:Founded on May 6, 1902, by
287:An old IRT sign remains at
212:NYC Board of Transportation
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3475:2019–2020 L train shutdown
3341:Chrystie Street Connection
1434:"NYC Minimum Curve Radius"
1353:Trolley Museum of New York
1264:, opened in September 2015
574:Manhattan Railway Division
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1529:Cudahy, Brian J. (1995).
1391:Independent Subway System
1349:Shore Line Trolley Museum
1335:Shore Line Trolley Museum
1315:Shore Line Trolley Museum
1302:in Rio Vista, California.
1296:Richmond Shipyard Railway
1290:Shore Line Trolley Museum
1283:Shore Line Trolley Museum
557:Westchester Avenue Branch
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3777:Beach Pneumatic Transit
3618:Mass Transit Super Bowl
2467:IND Second System lines
1931:Joralemon Street Tunnel
1828:Broadway–Seventh Avenue
1558:Derrick, Peter (2001).
1363:New York Transit Museum
1345:New York Transit Museum
1325:Seashore Trolley Museum
1269:Surviving IRT equipment
1110:Lexington Avenue Tunnel
1050:Joralemon Street Tunnel
688:The Bronx and Manhattan
390:with an extension into
45:Mosholu Parkway station
37:New York Transit Museum
3669:Automation and signals
2522:, which are dark gray.
2489:South Brooklyn Railway
2131:Montague Street Tunnel
1313:, is preserved at the
1300:Western Railway Museum
831:White Plains Road Line
802:Branch lines include:
641:Willis Avenue Branch (
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407:Brooklyn Rapid Transit
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118:East 180th Street Yard
60:Incorporated into the
3754:Staten Island Railway
3628:MTA Arts & Design
3558:Dey Street Passageway
2494:Staten Island Railway
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692:Trunk lines include:
683:Expansion (1917–1928)
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3633:Music Under New York
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3361:Second Avenue Subway
3346:Interborough Express
2982:Broadway/63rd Street
2561:New York City Subway
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2415:Coney Island Complex
1782:New York City Subway
1627:279 U.S. 159
987:Nostrand Avenue Line
938: trains), under
908:Eastern Parkway Line
823: trains), under
630:42nd Street Branch (
619:34th Street Branch (
549:(Atlantic Avenue to
464:Flushing–Main Street
449:Nostrand Avenue Line
447:via the underground
437:IRT Dyre Avenue Line
333:New York City Subway
210:(acquisition by the
184:(acquisition of the
62:New York City Subway
3543:58 Joralemon Street
2282:Bridges and tunnels
2136:Williamsburg Bridge
2119:Bridges and tunnels
2074:Williamsburg Bridge
1919:Bridges and tunnels
1305:The private car of
1208:Harlem–148th Street
1144:149th Street Tunnel
1106: trains)
1070:Clark Street Tunnel
899:Brooklyn and Queens
890: train), under
603:Bronx Park Terminal
458:, its sole line in
372:August Belmont, Jr.
3613:In popular culture
3416:Union Square, 1991
3411:Times Square, 1928
3401:Ninth Avenue, 1905
3366:Historic proposals
3356:7 Subway Extension
3351:Program for Action
3111:East New York Loop
2879:EE (Eighth Avenue)
2289:63rd Street Tunnel
2162:East New York Loop
2126:60th Street Tunnel
1644:The New York Times
1595:. March 20, 1913.
1593:The New York Times
1510:. October 28, 1904
1508:The New York Times
1484:. October 28, 1904
1482:The New York Times
1456:The New York Times
1440:on March 18, 2012.
1307:August Belmont Jr.
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1737:Project Gutenberg
1706:www.nycsubway.org
1688:trolleymuseum.org
1359:World's Fair Lo-V
1204:Lenox Avenue Line
1007:The only line in
849:White Plains Road
807:Lenox Avenue Line
674:Ninth Avenue Line
660:Sixth Avenue Line
625:34th Street Ferry
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480:Queensboro Plaza
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380:Andrew Onderdonk
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349:first IRT subway
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