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Third Annual Report, 1924 edit

Subway construction edit

Queensboro Subway Extension edit

Flushing Extension edit

  • Revised plan crossovers 5th Avenue temporary terminal

Fort Hamilton Extension edit

Fourteenth Street-Eastern Line edit

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

Nassau Street Line edit

Dual Operations in Queens edit

  • Studies, switchback track

Station facilities edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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

Proposed lines edit

Parkway Rapid Transit Line edit

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

Traffic changes edit

Capitalization/securities edit

Tariffs edit

Accidents edit

Power edit

Financial condition of street railroad companies edit

Grade Crossing eliminations edit

NYC West Side Line edit

Litigation edit

Omnibus situation edit

Increased service edit

Reduction wood cars Jamaica El edit

Reorganization Brighton Line service-referendum edit

Petition denied request reduce service IRT edit

Request-purchase new cars edit

LIRR, surface line new cars edit

Through-service Pelham Line Sundays-May 27th edit

Additional train late night Jerome Avenue edit

2 additional Saturday night Brooklyn express West Side line edit

Increased Third Avenue el express service edit

Improved elevated facilities edit

Extension 9th Avenue el express service edit

Midday through-service Queens line elevated edit

Rerouting trains steel car to Broadway Line from Lexington Avenue Line edit

Increases-Sea Beach, Fulton Street, West End, Brighton, Fourth Avenue edit

Dual service Queens edit

Indicated points-train stops-Broadway Line edit

Additional transfer provisions Brooklyn surface edit

Service extensions, new Vanderbilt Avenue line short-line service edit

Reconstructed trailer cars-motorcars edit

New 14th Street service edit

Additional service 59th Street edit

Eighth Avenue Railroad new barn edit

Tremont Avenue crosstown extension edit

Extension Boston Road Line edit

Rerouted Jamaica-College Point line-connection-subway edit

Corona Line-extended College Point rush hours edit

New short-line service Jamaica line edit

New one-person cars in service edit

Double tracking, increased service-Ocean Electric Railway Company edit

Moving zone point-Manhattan andQueens Traction, extension Jamaica edit

LIRR-increased service-25 cars-Rockaway Division/Far Rockaway Division edit

40 cars-rush hour-Flatbush Avenue, Penn Station edit

Additional stops Frank Avenue, St. Albans edit

Increases New Haven Line-all-night service edit

Shelters-added exit platforms three SIRT stations edit

Property acquisition edit

Platform extensions edit

Jackson Avenue Station Lengthening edit