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Daily News from New York, New York • 42

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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42
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SMITH ST. SHUTT ovthST. CHURCH AVE. WTUBBRxXfXsnOMBBxMsaexaSKBHMnsa 0m 11-William Kite and Stuart Rogers. Itapitl transit along Sixth missing fincc the last El train rumbled overhead into oblivion IVe.

4, 19o8, returns Sunday morning at a minute after midnight underground. At that hour. Mayor LaCuardia ill cut a tape across the northbound tracks of the city's newest transportation link at its white-tiled 3Jth St. station" Sixth Avenue in NEWS map bv Staff Artist Blepr) The Independent Subway System complete with Sixth Ave. extension, which opens Sunday morning.

ts entirety, from I the Bronx and Queens onto the ana mereny iiin.w.i r.rnWi-h Villace. oixtn Ave. Line soutn oi aod V. 4th St new Sixth Ave. Subway a a 53d where it swings Unit of the Independent Svs- cast to join the present Independ- ent tracks ta Queens and west to tern With the Sixth Ave.

line in oper- wnn xn, i the Independent city system, ing between Parsons Boulevard, via Sixth south of 53d to Houston to Church Ave. Brooklyn. (Trains and run alternately and 24 hours a day.) Washington Heights (local) Train BB, operating from 168th via Sixth south of 53d to 34th St. during rush hours, A. 4-7 P.

M. Train AA, operating from 168th St. to Hudson Terminal, via Eighth outh of 53d 24 hours a day. Keep Present Service. Previously existing service which will be maintained are Train Washington Heights-Eighth firpt nhinnnl in 1921, will te cora- more trams are to be aaciea to tne main lines serving those areas, without changing the present headway.

As at present, all trains wdl carry alphabetical designations indicating their routes. By boroughs the new routes will be: Bronx Service. Bronx (express) Train to be known as the Concourse Express, operating between 205th St. and Hudson Terminal, via Sixth south of 53d 24 hours a day Express service between 53th St. Thoujrh express trains from the Bronx and Queens will operate over the new stretch, all six stations between 53d and 4th Sts.

will be local stops. From south to north the stations are dosijrnated Fourth (although a i tit bit; uaicu m. irui tu laiiiivuku plete. at a cost ranjrinjr from 0, 0 to The $52,000,000, two and a quarter mile link, that curves, dips and lifmls, roller-coaster fashion, sections of the Mt.T.. Independent and nearest entrance at present nects the mezzanine platforms of the 34th and 42d St.

stations, with entrances at 35th, 3Sth and 40th without turnstiles. The most remarkable engineering feat in station construction is at 34th where the new line runs above the Long Island R. R-tracks, but below the and Hudson-Manhattan tracks, with 15 escalators providing connections, directly or indirectly to Pennsylvania Station, the Hudson Tubes uptown terminal and the and LRT. stations in that area. Along the arcade will be entrances to department stores.

The 14 th St. station is a connection point for the Canarsie Branch-of the and the 23d St. station is another connecting point for the Hudson Tubes. At 42d St. station stairs lead to the 42d St.

Grand Central shuttle trains to Times Square and to Queens I.R.T. trains. There are no free transfer connections from the 6th and 8th Ave. links of the Independent Subwey to other subway or surface lines. I will be a block awav at Wash wo-ld's vnot expensive to build.

It inffton Place); 14th 23d 1 Urn i it.i, et tv Express, between 207th Bronx and 145th This tram runs as a 1 cost a iooi, uvi-BUff 31th 42d and 50th St. and Rockaway Brooklyn, 24 to tuous course, to avoui ow.er itg i(s desiKnation as 50th subways. Dine lines, conduits station aotuallv extends fror bmldinjr 47th St. to slightly above 49th Connrrts All I.ints. twith no entrance or exit at 50th St.

local during non-rush hours. Bronx (local) Train CC, the Con course Local, operating between Bedford Park Boulevard, Bronx, Some Trains Re-routed. Designed as an ad'unct to the and Hudson Terminal, via Eighth Eighth Ave. (Independent) subway Schedules and routes of trains hours a day; Train Concourse-Eighth Ave. Express, operating between 205th Bronx and Hoyt Brooklyn, 24 hours a day; Train GG, Brooklyn-Queens Cross-town, from Smith Brooklyn to 71st Forest Hills, and Train HH, the Court Brooklyn shuttle.

4 2d St. Connections. To provide connections with other existing subway lines, a pedestrian passage con line, to give improved service be- OVer the original Independent main twet midtown Manhattan, the lines have been considerably altered Eronx and Queens, it provides easy during weekday rush hours A. 4-7 P. and Saturday rush Queens express) Train operating between 169th Sti, Queens, via Eighth south of 53d as far as Broadway-Lafayette St.

Train Queens Express, operat- to provide more and better service from every borough, especially at rush hours. By re-routing some trains from connection at some point along its course with all other subway lines. The new section runs underneath.

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