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Very good. Light wear and toning along original fold lines. Text on verso. Size 18 x 12 Inches. This is a 1962 New York City Transit Authority cut-away map of the just-opened 59th Street Express subway station, part of the original program for the inaugural ceremonies of that station. One of the most frequented stations on the Lexington Avenue line, the illustration encompasses three levels, 'express' escalators, transfer ramps, and a whole world of newer, faster, transit. The Verso Text The verso text promotes the accomplishment of building the station and its many new amenities. For the first time since the line was built more than 44 years ago, passengers riding locals on the IRT Lexington Avenue line will hear the conductor announce '59th Street station - change here for the express, please'. The new service goes into effect on Nov. 15, 1962. After 44 years, the 59th Street station, fourth busiest of the 23 Lexington Avenue line stations in Manhattan, has become an express stop. Approximately 11,000,000 fares were collected at this station during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1962, an increase of about a half million fares over the 1961 period. Millions of other passengers used this station as a transfer point to and from Queens. The complex work of carving an express station out of rock some 73 feel below Lexington Avenue at 59th Street was begun on August 10, 1959. Two platforms, each 14 feet wide and 525 feet long, on the northbound and southbound sides of the existing express track, were cut out of rock. A new mezzanine was built above the new platforms, toward the 60th Street end. The BMT Lexington Avenue station, with its east-west tracks running through 60th Street, is above the new mezzanine. Above the BMT and just below the surface of Lexington Avenue, are the IRT local tracks and station. Two high-speed, 4-foot wide escalators rise 50 feet from the new express platforms to the IRT local platforms at the 59th Street end of the station. Two more high-speed escalators rise 39 feet from the new mezzanine to the IRT local platforms. Taking over three years to build, the new mezzanine and express station was finished three months sooner than the estimated contract time. Approximately 12,600 cubic yards of rock were chiseled out and removed in order to provide space to build the new structures. Over 5,920 cubic yards of concrete and 915 tons of steel went into the building of the facilities. The Lexington and 59th Street station remains one of the most heavily trafficked station in the New York City subway system. The IRT It is of note, that, at the time, while still part of the New York City Transit system, the Lexington Ave (Green) line still operated under the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) designation. The IRT was the original private operator of the New York City underground subway. It was established in 1902 and ran subways from 1904 to 1940, when it was acquired by the New York City Transit Authority. The original IRT lines, most of which still operate, can be distinguished as the numbered routes on the New York City subway system (1,2,3,4,5,6,7). Publication History and Census This piece was created and published by the New York City Transit Authority for the inaugural ceremonies of the 59th Street express station on Thursday, November 15, 1962. We have been unable to locate any other surviving examples making this a unique piece of New York City history.

N° de réf. du vendeur 59thExpressStation-irt-1962

Détails bibliographiques

Titre
NEW IRT LEX. AVE AND 59 ST. EXPRESS STATION.
Auteur
1962 Transit Authority Pictorial Cut-Away Map of the New 59th Street Express Station
Année de publication
1962
Catalogues du vendeur
NEW-YORK-MAPS

Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

Brooklyn, NY, Etats-Unis

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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion, and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk. This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map. Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the IMCOS, and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.

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