User:Kew Gardens 613/NYSTC Annual Reports

Third Annual Report, 1924

Subway construction

Flushing Extension

• Revised plan crossovers 5th Avenue temporary terminal

Fourteenth Street-Eastern Line

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

Dual Operations in Queens

• Studies, switchback track

Station facilities

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Parkway Rapid Transit Line

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