In 1886, the Suburban Rapid Transit Company extended the Third Avenue El into the Bronx. They also built a spur from the 3rd and 2nd Avenue lines leading to the East 34th Street Ferry Landing. All four lines were acquired by the Manhattan Elevated Railway in 1879. Meanwhile, the Gilbert El was reorganized as the Metropolitan Elevated Railway and was permitted to build the IRT Second Avenue Line in 1875.

The Third Avenue El originally terminated at Grand Central Depot, until it was expanded uptown, transforming the segment into a spur. The WS&YP went bankrupt in 1871 and was replaced by the New York Elevated Railroad, which would later build the IRT Third Avenue Line.

The first being the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway which built the IRT Ninth Avenue Line in 1868, and the second being the Gilbert Elevated Railway, which built the IRT Sixth Avenue Line. All three former systems are present in Manhattan.īefore subways were built, Manhattan's mass transit system was provided by elevated railways. Three rapid transit companies merged in 1940 to create the present New York City Subway system: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). The system's 472 stations qualifies it to have the largest number of rapid transit stations in the world. Operated by the New York City Transit Authority under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in the United States and the seventh busiest in the world, with 5.225 million daily riders.

state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. The current New York City Transit Authority rail system map Manhattan is located on the left-center portion of the map.

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