Everything about The Interborough Rapid Transit Company totally explained
The
Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the operator of the original underground
New York City Subway line that opened in 1904, as well as earlier
elevated railways and additional
rapid transit lines in
New York City. The IRT was purchased by the City in June 1940. The former IRT lines (the numbered lines in the current subway system) are now the
A Division or IRT Division of the Subway.
The
first IRT subway ran between
City Hall and
145th Street at
Broadway, opening on
October 27,
1904. It opened following more than twenty years of public debate on the merits of subways versus the existing
elevated rail system and on various proposed routes.
On April 1, 1903, over a year before its first subway line opened, IRT acquired the pre-existing elevated
Manhattan Railway by lease, gaining a monopoly on rapid transit in Manhattan. The Manhattan EL was the operator of four elevated railways in
Manhattan with an extension into
the Bronx. The IRT coordinated some services between what became its subway and elevated divisions, but all the lines of the former Manhattan EL have since been dismantled.
Today, the IRT lines are operated as the
A Division of the subway. The remaining lines are underground in Manhattan, except for a short stretch across
Harlem at
125th Street and in northernmost Manhattan. Its many lines in the Bronx are predominantly elevated, with some subway, and some railroad-style right-of-way acquired from the defunct
New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, which now comprises the
IRT Dyre Avenue Line. Its Brooklyn lines are in subway with a single elevated extension that reaches up to
New Lots Avenue, and the other reaching
Flatbush Avenue via the underground
Nostrand Avenue Line. The
Flushing Line, its sole line in
Queens, is entirely elevated except for a short portion approaching its East River tunnel and its terminal at
Main Street-Flushing (the whole Manhattan portion of the line is in subway). The Flushing Line has had no physical connection to the rest of the IRT since 1942, when service on the
Second Avenue El was discontinued; today, its sole connection to the rest of the system is to the
BMT at
Queensborough Plaza.
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