Service Begins
The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company was formed to run passenger service through the tunnel pair. Service in the uptown pair started between Hoboken and 19th Street in Manhattan at midnight on February 26, 1908. On July 19, 1909, service began between Lower Manhattan and Jersey City, through the downtown Hudson tubes located about 11⁄4 miles (2.0 km) south of the first pair. After the completion of the uptown Manhattan extension to 33rd Street and the westward extension to Newark and the now-defunct Manhattan Transfer in 1911, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad was considered to be complete. The cost of the entire project was estimated at between $55 and $60 million, equal to more than $1 billion in 2008 dollars.
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