Long before the MTA, there was the Interborough Rapid Transit Subway (IRT), whose first line opened almost exactly 117 years ago on October 27, 1904. (The company was founded in 1902 by August Belmont ...
This decommissioned subway station was the real jewel of the IRT subway line when it opened, with Guastavino tiling and a curved track. With a platform too short for the new trains, it has been closed ...
Straphangers on the borough’s IRT No. 6 train are bracing for partial closures at the busy Parkchester station, starting next month. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will close the northbound ...
A man was critically injured when he was run over by a subway train minutes after panicked onlookers begged a token clerk to shut off the power, sources said last night. Ronald Melichar tumbled onto ...