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* The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line runs under and over Broadway from Times Square to 168th Street ( trains ), and from 218th Street to its terminal in the Bronx at Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( train ).
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From south to north, Broadway at one point or another runs over or under the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, and the IND Eighth Avenue Line:
* The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under Broadway from Bowling Green to Fulton Street ( trains ).
The Cortlandt Street ( IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ) | Cortlandt Street IRT station, which was directly below the World Trade Center, after the September 11 attacks
The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, which ran below the World Trade Center between Chambers Street and Rector Street was the most crippled.
The only subway line running between Midtown and Lower Manhattan was the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, which was overcrowded before the attacks and at crush density until the BMT Broadway Line reopened.
The New York City Subway's 34th Street – Penn Station ( IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ) ( trains ) and 34th Street – Penn Station ( IND Eighth Avenue Line ) ( trains ) stations are next to the terminal.
* Wall Street ( IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ) at William Street ( trains )
* Wall Street ( IRT Lexington Avenue Line ) at Broadway ( trains )
The IRT 42nd Street Shuttle runs under 42nd Street between Broadway / Seventh Avenue ( Times Square ) and Park Avenue ( Grand Central ); the IRT Flushing Line begins at 41st Street / Seventh Avenue, runs between 41st and 42nd from Sixth Avenue to Park Avenue, curves onto 42nd Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, and continues under the East River to Queens.
The New York City Subway employs these at 14th Street – Union Square on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and at Times Square on the 42nd Street Shuttle, and formerly at the South Ferry outer loop station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line.
Along the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, the train stops at 157th Street, 168th Street, 181st Street, 191st Street, Dyckman Street and 207th Street.
File: 191 St vc. jpg | Entrance to 191st Street ( IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line )
** trains at 34th Street – Penn Station ( IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ) station
** Marble Hill – 225th Street ( IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ), a subway station serving that neighborhood via the train
New York City Subway service is provided by the Marble Hill – 225th Street station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, served by the train.
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I – O psychologists also employ psychometric methods including methods associated with classical test theory ( CTT ), generalizability theory, and item response theory ( IRT ).
World's Fair ( now Mets – Willets Point ) station on the IRT Flushing Line was rebuilt to handle fair traffic on the IRT and BMT.
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The Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street terminal station of the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ( train ) of the New York City Subway is located at the intersection of 242nd Street and Broadway.
It is colored on station signs, route signs and the official subway map, since it uses the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line for its entire route.
It served as part of the IRT's main line until August 1, 1918, when the Dual Contracts ' " H system " was put into service, with through trains over the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, and only shuttle trains under 42nd Street.
There is no connection between tracks 1 and 3 on the one hand, and track 4 on the other ; therefore, although the shuttle was once part of the original through-route of the first IRT subway, it is now physically impossible for a train to go from the IRT Lexington Avenue Line through to the IRT Seventh Avenue Line or vice versa by using the shuttle tracks.
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New York's Radio Row in 1936, with the IRT Ninth Avenue Line | Ninth Avenue El at Cortlandt St. in the background ( photograph by Berenice Abbott )
Depiction of the wall of New Amsterdam on a tile in Wall Street ( IRT Lexington Avenue Line ) subway station
** Bowling Green ( IRT Lexington Avenue Line ), a subway station in New York City
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The Bleecker Street ( IRT Lexington Avenue Line ) has station entrances on the north side of Houston Street, due to its connection with the Broadway-Lafayette Street station as part of a larger station complex.
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The IRT Flushing Line ( trains ) runs through the neighborhood with stops at 111th Street, 103rd Street – Corona Plaza and Junction Boulevard.
The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line ( trains ) runs along the Broadway making stops at 59th, 66th, 72nd, 79th, 86th, 96th, 103rd, 110th, and 116th streets.
The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under this portion of the street.
The IRT Lexington Avenue Line ( trains ) of the New York City Subway runs under Lexington Avenue north of 42nd Street ( at Grand Central ); south of Grand Central this subway line runs under Park Avenue until Astor Place.
In Long Island City, Route 25 runs southeast beneath the elevated tracks of the IRT Flushing Line.
The IRT Lenox Avenue Line runs under the entire length of the street.
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* Concourse Line ( trains ): under the Grand Concourse from 205th Street south to 161st Street, then west under the Harlem River into Manhattan and south to the Eighth Avenue Line ( parallel to the IRT Jerome Avenue Line )
* Eighth Avenue Line ( trains ): from 207th Street, south roughly under Broadway ; under Saint Nicholas Avenue, Eighth Avenue, Greenwich Avenue, Sixth Avenue ( with a junction with the Sixth Avenue Line / Houston Street Line ), Church Street, and Fulton Street ; under the East River via the Cranberry Street Tunnel into Brooklyn, to the Fulton Street Line ( parallel to the IRT Ninth Avenue Line )
* Sixth Avenue Line ( trains ): from a split from the Eighth Avenue Line at 53rd Street, two blocks east to Sixth Avenue, then south under Sixth Avenue to a junction with the Eighth Avenue Line north of Houston Street, then east under Houston Street and south under Essex Street and Rutgers Street to the Rutgers Street Tunnel to Brooklyn-parallel to the IRT Sixth Avenue Elevated
* Queens Boulevard Line ( trains ): from the 53rd Street Tunnel from Queens, west under 53rd Street past a junction with the Sixth Avenue Line to merge with the Eighth Avenue Line-partly parallel to the IRT Sixth Avenue Elevated connection to the IRT Ninth Avenue Elevated along 53rd Street
For instance, when the IRT was reluctant ( if not totally opposed ) to the BRT's proposed access to Midtown Manhattan via the Broadway Line, the city and state negotiators immediately offered the BRT all of the lines under proposal-including such obvious IRT tie-ins such as the upper Lexington Avenue Line, and both lines in Queens.
Technically the line was under IRT ' ownership ', but the BRT / BMT was granted trackage rights in perpetuity, essentially making it theirs also.
The following lines were built under the Dual Contracts for the IRT:
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The R33 and R36 cars built for the IRT Flushing Line (# 7 ) subway route that served the 1964 fair ran the route for over 39 years afterwards, with some in revenue service through 2003.
In 1940 the elevated IRT Ninth Avenue Line over Columbus Avenue closed.
Formerly, Westchester riders would either change at 180th street and walk over a causeway from the railroad station to the IRT elevated structure or continue to Harlem River Station to different elevated or subway lines.
The most common application of IRT is in education, where psychometricians use it for developing and refining exams, maintaining banks of items for exams, and equating for the difficulties of successive versions of exams ( for example, to allow comparisons between results over time ).
IRT is generally regarded as an improvement over classical test theory ( CTT ).
Another advantage of IRT over CTT is that the more sophisticated information IRT provides allows a researcher to improve the reliability of an assessment.
* Although CTT results have allowed important practical results, the model-based nature of IRT affords many advantages over analogous CTT findings.
The IRT would access the station from both the 1907 Steinway Tunnel and an extension of the Second Avenue Elevated from Manhattan over the Queensborough Bridge.
The bonus legacy of this construction was that the IRT was able to operate 11-car trains on this line, and when the BMT took over the Astoria Line, minimal work had to done to accommodate 10-car BMT units.
* Astoria Line and Flushing Line east of Queensboro Plaza ( trackage rights over IRT )
On April 1, 1903, over a year before its first subway line opened, the IRT acquired the pre-existing elevated Manhattan Railway by lease, gaining a monopoly on rapid transit in Manhattan.
There is a reproduction of an IRT entry kiosk on the street level over the northbound entrance.
The south side of the IRT platforms were used by the Flushing Line, as today ; the north side was used by Astoria trains, but instead of going through the 60th Street Tunnel, they went over the Queensboro Bridge to the elevated IRT Second Avenue Line.
McClellan was to start the first train at the City Hall Station, and then hand it over to an IRT motorman.
In June 1940, the transportation assets of the former BMT and IRT systems were taken over by the City of New York for operation by the City's Board of Transportation, which already operated the IND system.
Even during World War II, which gave a reprieve to the closure of most rail transit in the US, some closures continued, including the remainder of the IRT Second Avenue Line in Manhattan ( 1942 ) and the surviving BMT elevated services over the Brooklyn Bridge ( 1944 ).
TWU activists attacked the plan and the pay cut from two years before at Brotherhood meetings that hundreds of IRT employees attended, taking over the platform at some meetings and holding large rallies outside the meeting hall in other cases.
With the support of the national CIO, the union was able to maintain its collective bargaining agreements and the right to represent the IRT and BMT employees after the City took over those systems in 1940.
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