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| Joralemon Street Tunnel | |
| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Architect: | William Barclay Parsons; Andrew McDonald, et al. |
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| 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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