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BMT Broadway Subway

Late evening N service entering 49th Street, November 2004. Photo by David Pirmann.

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

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

Broadway Subway Opened
Electric Railway Journal, January 12, 1918.

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.)

Stations

• Lawrence Street/Metrotech
• Court Street
• Whitehall Street
• Rector Street
• Cortlandt Street-World Trade Center
• City Hall
• Canal Street
• Prince Street
• 8th Street
• 14th Street/Union Square
• 23rd Street
• 28th Street
• 34th Street/Herald Square
• Times Square/42nd Street
• 49th Street
• 57th Street
• 5th Avenue
• Lexington Avenue