Irt Flushing Line Stations: 103rd Street - Corona Plaza (Irt Flushing Line), 111th Street (Irt Flushing Line), 33rd Street - Rawson Street (Irt FL

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: 103rd Street - Corona Plaza (IRT Flushing Line), 111th Street (IRT Flushing Line), 33rd Street - Rawson Street (IRT Flushing Line), 34th Street (IRT Flushing Line), 40th Street - Lowery Street (IRT Flushing Line), 42nd Street / Fifth Avenue - Bryant Park (New York City Subway), 46th Street - Bliss Street (IRT Flushing Line), 52nd Street (IRT Flushing Line), 61st Street - Woodside (IRT Flushing Line), 69th Street (IRT Flushing Line), 82nd Street - Jackson Heights (IRT Flushing Line), 90th Street - Elmhurst Avenue (IRT Flushing Line), Court Square (New York City Subway), Flushing - Main Street (IRT Flushing Line), Grand Central - 42nd Street (New York City Subway), Hunters Point Avenue (IRT Flushing Line), Junction Boulevard (IRT Flushing Line), Mets - Willets Point (IRT Flushing Line), Queensboro Plaza (New York City Subway), Roosevelt Avenue / 74th Street (New York City Subway), Times Square - 42nd Street (New York City Subway), Vernon Boulevard - Jackson Avenue (IRT Flushing Line). Excerpt: Times Square - 42nd Street is a large station complex of the New York City Subway, located under Times Square at the intersection of 42nd Street, Seventh Avenue, and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. When considered together with 42nd Street - Port Authority Bus Terminal, it is the busiest complex in the system, serving 60,604,822 passengers in 2011. The complex provides free transfers between the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line and the IRT Flushing Line, with a long transfer to the IND Eighth Avenue Line one block west at 42nd Street - Port Authority Bus Terminal. It is served by the: Times Square was originally a local station called 42nd Street on New York City's first subway in 1904. Since 1918, three shuttle tracks have served it; the southbound express track was removed and replaced by a temporary wooden platform for access to the original northbound express track. Platforms are located on both sides (at the old local platforms) and where the southbound express track was; all three platforms connect on the west (railroad north) side. This walkway crosses the northbound local track on a bridge that can be lifted for the only access to that track, via a merge into the northbound IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line local track along the original subway alignment (north of the current Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line station). This track merge is only used for overnight swaps and special railfan excursion trains. The other three tracks used to curve parallel to this one. There is no track connection between the northbound local and the other two tracks anywhere along the shuttle. Two of the three tracks end at bumper blocks at the west end of the platforms. Because of the curvature on the platforms, gap fillers are used to bridge the gap between train and platform, however the gap fillers are not suitable for wheelchair passengers, making the shuttle platforms virtually inaccessible to wheelchairs, passengers who ne