IRT Eastern Parkway Line - History

History

[ ] IRT Eastern Parkway Line
Legend
IRT Lexington Avenue Line
IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line
Clark Street
Borough Hall
BMT Fourth Avenue Line
IND Culver Line / IND Fulton Street Line
Hoyt Street
Nevins Street
BMT Fourth Avenue Line
Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center
LIRR Atlantic Branch
BMT Brighton Line
Bergen Street
Grand Army Plaza
BMT Brighton Line
Eastern Parkway – Brooklyn Museum
BMT Franklin Avenue Line
Franklin Avenue
IRT Nostrand Avenue Line
Nostrand Avenue
Kingston Avenue
Crown Heights – Utica Avenue
IRT New Lots Line
Joralemon Street Tunnel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Architect: William Barclay Parsons; Andrew McDonald, et al.
MPS: New York City Subway System MPS
NRHP Reference#: 06000015
Added to NRHP: February 9, 2006

This line was built as a part of the Dual Contracts from Atlantic Avenue east.

The Joralemon Street Tunnel, opened on January 1, 1908, was the first underwater subway tunnel connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn.. Clifford Milburn Holland served as the assistant engineer during the construction of the tunnel.. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 2006.

The IRT Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn subway line was built from 1915 to 1918, from the section east of the Atlantic Avenue station to Utica Avenue and down the Nostrand Avenue Subway to Flatbush Avenue. The section of the subway from Grand Army Plaza to Nostrand Avenue was built in 1920 due to a subcontractor's bankruptcy.

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