metro stations
Introduction
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves the five boroughs of New York City in the state of New York ("New York (state)"): the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Its operator is the New York City Transit Authority, in which it is also administered by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. 5.225 million use the system daily, making it the busiest subway system in the United States and the fourth busiest in the world.[2][3][4].
The current New York Subway system is made up of three different former systems that merged in 1940: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) and the Independent Subway System (IND). The private company IRT, founded in 1902, built and operated the first underground lines in New York City. With the opening of this line on October 27, 1904, it is commonly cited as the modern New York Subway, although some elevated lines of the IRT and BMT divisions were initially incorporated into the New York Subway, but were later demolished. The BMT, founded in 1923 and also a private company, was founded after the bankruptcy of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. The IND was created by the City of New York in 1921 to be a municipality that competed with private companies. With its unification in 1940 by the New York City Transportation Board, the New York system became operated by a single company. The New York City Transportation Authority, created in 1953 as a public benefit corporation, which acquired the Subway and surface rail infrastructure (buses and trolleybuses) from the Transportation Board, remains the current operator of the New York City Subway.
The official number of stations is 468; However, this tabulation classifies some transfer stations as two or more stations, called "station complexes" within the station nomenclature. If in station complexes, stations are counted as one, then the number would be 423. BMT and IND are usually counted separately, especially if their lines are not parallel, adjacent, or on top of each other at each level. Regardless of how the stations are counted, the New York City Subway has the largest number of stations in the world. when it was demolished during the attacks of September 11, 2001. There are also countless closed stations, most of which were stations of what were once the elevated lines operated by the IRT and BMT.
The system's newest station is South Ferry&action=edit&redlink=1 "South Ferry (Seventh Avenue Line–Broadway Line) (not yet drafted)") on the Seventh Avenue–Broadway Line (train service 1 "1 (New York City Subway)"), opened on March 16, 2009 as a replacement for the South Ferry loops station "South Ferry loops (station)"). The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is currently building four new stations for the New York City Subway. An extension of the Flushing line (trains of the 7 service "7 (New York Subway)") <7> "7 (New York Subway)"), called the 7 Subway Extension, in which it would begin at 34th Street "34th Street (Manhattan)") and 11th Avenue "11th Avenue (Manhattan)") as part of the new Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project").[8] The other three stations are being built as part of the new Second Avenue line, to eliminate congestion along the Lexington Avenue line (trains service 4 "4 (New York Subway)") 5 "5 (New York Subway)") 6 "6 (New York Subway)") <6> "6 (New York Subway)"), the busiest Subway corridor in the United States. The stations will be located on Second Avenue "Second Avenue (Manhattan)") at Street. 72 "72nd Street (Manhattan)"), 86th Street "86th Street (Manhattan)") and 96th Street "96th Street (Manhattan)").