It could have gone to Battery Park to the south and the Harlem River to the north. The subway car in the tunnel was pneumatic, or pushed by air. His Beach Pneumatic Transit only extended 312 feet (95 m) under Broadway in Lower Manhattan. The first elevated trains started working on October 9, 1863, and the first underground trains started working on October 27, 1904.Īlfred Ely Beach built an underground subway tunnel to test in 1869. The system has only closed three times, most notably during the September 11 attacks and when Hurricane Sandy flooded its tracks.

The New York City Subway almost never closes the trains run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year. It has 245 miles (or 394 km) of routes on 691 miles (or 1112 km) of railway track. It is one of the biggest rapid transit systems in the world, with 472 stations. It is run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that is in New York City, United States. An unofficial map of the New York City Subway

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