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Dual Contracts News (1910-1918)

Short period news articles (1910-1919) about the construction and operation of the Dual Contracts subway lines, from the Public Service Record, New York Times, and elsewhere pertaining to the Dual Contracts subway lines.Short, contemporary news articles about the construction and operation of the Dual Contracts subway lines.

A New Subway Line For New York City: The Triborough System
Engineering News, March 10, 1910. A 1910 report on the so-called Tri-borough system, which was the genesis of the Dual Contracts. The Tri-borough plan included the Centre Street, Lexington Avenue, and the Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) subway lines.

Brooklyn's [Fourth Avenue] Subway Will Open Today/New Subway Opens, Mayor Not Present
New York Times, June 19 & June 20, 1915.

Steinway Tunnel Opening
New York Times, June 20, 1915.

Two Lines of the Dual System in Operation (Fourth Avenue Subway and Queensboro Subway)
Public Service Record, June, 1915.

The Fourth Avenue Subway in Brooklyn
Public Service Record, June, 1915.

Tells How It Feels to Go Up In A Geyser
Man Shot Through River Bed From [Montague Street] Tunnel Was Never Squeezed So Tightly Before. Kept His Mouth Tight Shut. Body Of Third Victim Found-- Damage To New Subway More Serious Than Was Thought. (New York Times, February 21, 1916.)

Under-River Tunnel Headings Meet (Old Slip-Clark Street Tunnel)
Public Service Record, December, 1916.

Operation of the White Plains Road Line
Public Service Record, March, 1917.

Service Begun on the Jerome Avenue Line
Public Service Record, June, 1917.

Last Down-town Tunnel Holed Through (Whitehall-Montague Street Tunnel)
Public Service Record, July, 1917.

Broadway Subway Now Open
Public Service Record, September, 1917.

Brooklyn Approaches to Downtown Tubes
Public Service Record, November, 1917.

Opening of the Broadway Subway
New York Times, January 1, 1918.

Opening A New Link of New York's Vast Subway System (Lexington Avenue Line)
Scientific American, July 1918.

Opening of Seventh Avenue and Lexington Avenue Lines
Public Service Record, July, 1918.

New Subway Lines Open To Traffic: Great "H" System Put Into Operation
New York Times, August 2, 1918.

Approaching Operation of the H Lines/The H Lines In Service
Public Service Record, June-September, 1918.

"H" System Subway Service Started/"H" System Trouble
Electric Railway Journal, August, 1918.

The Design of Subways
Public Service Record, October-November, 1918.

Design of the Diagonal Station and Connection
Public Service Record, December, 1918.

New Clark Street Tunnel Completed
New York Times, March 16, 1919. Also from the New York Times: Clark Street Tunnel Ready (April 11, 1919), Clark Street Tunnel Tested (April 12, 1919), Fear B.R.T. Strike- Rush Use of Tunnel (April 13, 1919), New Subway Service Between Brooklyn and Manhattan Boroughs (April 13, 1919), Open Clark Street Line (April 16, 1919), Lessens Subway Crush (April 17, 1919), Dual System is Nearly Completed (May 4, 1919).

New Rapid Transit Link in Operation [Culver Line]
New York Times, March 16, 1919.

The Park Place Subway Station Escalators
Scientific American, 1919.

Broadway-Fifty-ninth Street Extension of B.R.T. Subway, Opened to Queensboro Plaza, L.I. City
New Line Supplements the Existing Extension of the Interborough Subway and Affords a Direct Route Without Transfer Crosstown and Downtown From Queens Borough. (New York Times, March 16, 1919.)