T (New York City Subway service)
| Second Avenue Local | |
|---|---|
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| Northern end | 125th Street |
| Southern end | Hanover Square |
| Stations | 16 |
The T Second Avenue Local[1] is a prospective rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its proposed route bullet will be turquoise, a currently unused color that was last used on the JFK Express, since it will run over planned Second Avenue Line in Manhattan.
The Second Avenue Subway is under construction, with the first phase, running from 63rd Street to 96th Street, planned for completion in December 2016.[2] The T designation will not be used until the third phase opens from Houston Street to 63rd Street.[2] The third phase is not funded or scheduled.[3]
History
T was previously used for a service on the BMT West End Line, originally BMT 3. Like the Sea Beach Line, the West End Line replaced a surface line that branched off of the Fifth Avenue Elevated. On June 24, 1916, service began running between 18th Avenue and Chambers Street via the Nassau Street Loop. This service was extended to 25th Avenue on July 29, 1916.[4]
On September 4, 1917, the first part of the BMT Broadway Line opened, and T service ran to 14th Street – Union Square. Chambers Street service was probably suspended until the remainder of the Nassau Street loop was completed. Service began running to the newly opened Times Square station on January 15, 1918. Service began running part-time to 57th Street on July 10, 1919, and this extension was probably axed in 1920.[4]
The Nassau Loop was completed on May 31, 1931. Weekday AM and PM service and Saturday AM local resumed service from Bay Parkway or 62nd Street to Chambers Street running via the Montague Tunnel, and returning via the Manhattan Bridge south tracks.[4]
The Saturday local service to Chambers Street, on June 24, 1950, was discontinued. All express trains began running to 57th Street on May 2, 1957. On October 24, 1957, late night service was replaced by locals to Chambers Street, running via the tunnel in both directions, and terminating at Coney Island. Express service was eliminated during middays, being replaced by locals extended to Coney Island on May 28, 1959. At this time all locals to Chambers Street began running via the tunnel in both directions.[4]
Letters began appearing in the summer of 1961, when R27s began running via the line. The expresses were given the label of T, and the locals were given the label of TT. On January 1, 1961, rush hour T expresses began running to Astoria, and until April 2, 1962 so did Saturday service. TT local service on January 1 began running between Bay Parkway and Chambers Street. During middays, local service only ran between Coney Island and Chambers Street. After April 2, 1962, T service began running to 57th Street during evenings and Saturdays, and on nights and Sundays TT locals ran to 36th Street. The T was discontinued on November 26, 1967, but a shuttle, designated TT, continued into 1968,[5] when it was replaced by a full time extended B train via Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.[4]
During a series of Manhattan Bridge closures, the route was recreated, however under the label of B, due to it familiarity. In the earliest of the closures the R11s were signed up as 3, the line's old West End number. The Manhattan Bridge's closure from April 26, 1986 to November 12, 1988, had the T's old service pattern almost exactly recreated, with service running to Astoria during rush hours, and during evenings and weekends to 57th Street. Since it also ran during weekday middays, it was sent to Queensboro Plaza. The TT's route was replicated once the M was rerouted from the Brighton Line to the West End Line running to Bay Parkway. It also briefly ran in the Fall of 1990 when the Broadway side of the Bridge was open for a month, and the Sixth Avenue side was closed for inspection one weekday midday. With the closing of the Manhattan Bridge's north side on July 22, 2001, the B in Brooklyn was replaced by the W via Broadway express in essence operating the old T route. During early evenings it ran to 57th Street, during late nights it ran as a shuttle to 36th Street, and weekend service unlike the T service, ran as a shuttle to Pacific Street. In 2004, the Manhattan Bridge reopened for subway service and the W was replaced by the D via Sixth Avenue.[6] T currently appears on R32 and R38 rollsigns as a black letter on a white circle. The T was programmed into R44 and R46 side signs as a West End route, with various Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Nassau Street designations.[4]
Planned station listing
As planned, the T will operate at all times between 125th Street in East Harlem and Hanover Square in the Financial District. It would be the only New York City Subway service that is not a shuttle to run only within one borough, though the planned expansion will include provisions to for further extension into the Bronx and Brooklyn at its northern and southern ends, respectively.
| Station |  |
Phase | Transfers and connections | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan | ||||
| T train introduced with opening of Phase 3 of the Second Avenue Subway | ||||
| 125th Street | |
2 | Northern terminal station for T train (Phase 3) Q train 4 5 6 <6> trains (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) M60 bus to LaGuardia Airport connection to Harlem – 125th Street (Metro-North Railroad) |
at Lexington Avenue and 125th Street |
| 116th Street | |
2 | Q train | |
| 106th Street | |
2 | Q train | |
| 96th Street | |
1 | Q train | |
| 86th Street | |
1 | Q train | |
| 72nd Street | |
1 | Q train | |
| T train continues down Second Avenue (Phase 3), Q turns west onto 63rd Street Line | ||||
| 55th Street | |
3 | E M trains (IND Queens Boulevard Line) at Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street 4 6 <6> trains (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) at 51st Street |
|
| 42nd Street | |
3 | 7 <7> trains (IRT Flushing Line) S trains (IRT 42nd Street Shuttle) 4 5 6 <6> trains (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) at Grand Central – 42nd Street connection to Grand Central Terminal (Metro-North Railroad & Long Island Rail Road once East Side Access Project is completed.) |
|
| 34th Street | |
3 | ||
| 23rd Street | |
3 | ||
| 14th Street | |
3 | L trains (BMT Canarsie Line) at Third Avenue | |
| Houston Street | |
3 | F trains (IND Sixth Avenue Line) at Second Avenue | Southern terminal station for T train (Phase 3) |
| T train continues down Chrystie and Water Streets (Phase 4) | ||||
| Grand Street | |
4 | B D trains (IND Sixth Avenue Line) | |
| Chatham Square | |
4 | at Worth Street | |
| Seaport | |
4 | at Fulton Street | |
| Hanover Square | |
4 | at Old Slip Southern terminal station for T train (Phase 4) | |
References
- ↑ "T (2nd Av Local) T-Shirt". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- 1 2 "MTA Capital Construction - Second Avenue Subway Project Description". mta.info. MTA. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
- ↑ Kabak, Benjamin. "What future the Second Ave. Subway?". Second Avenue Sagas. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "NYCT Line by Line History". www.erictb.info. Retrieved 2016-02-21.
- ↑ http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?36091
- ↑ BMT West End Line
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