New York City Subway Timeline of Events

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and also known as MTA New York City Transit...

Timeline of Events

1900

3.24.1900

Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

1904

10.27.1904

The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.

1932

9.10.1932

The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned ''IND'', is opened.