August Belmont In 1905, just a year after the opening of the IRT, the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners announced plans for an additional nineteen subway lines. New tracks would run one hundred ...

When the subway opened in 1904, maps just depicted the routes of the individual companies that ran them—the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company (BMT ...

But what most people now know as the MTA began as three distinct lines: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the ...

The original subway line went from old City Hall station up to 42nd Street. It went across Manhattan and up to 145th Street," Shapiro said. The price to hop on board was just a nickel. The IRT's ...