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    Steinway Tunnel - Wikipedia

    • The Steinway Tunnel (officially known as the Steinway Tube ) is a pair of tubes carrying the IRT Flushing Line (7 and <7>​ trains) of the New York City Subway under the East River between 42nd Street in Manhattan and 51st Avenue in Long Island City, Queens, in New York City. It was originally designed and built as an interurban trolley tunnel (with a narrow loa… See more

    Initial work

    The East River Tunnel Railroad Company was founded on February 22, 1885, to construct a railroad tunnel crossing … See more

    The Belmont era

    In 1900, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), headed by August Belmont Jr., was awarded the contract for construction and operation of the city's subway line and a few years later the IRT engineere… See more

    LocationEast River between Manhattan and Queens in New York City
    OpenedJune 13, 1915
    LineIRT Flushing Line (7 and <7> trains)
    SystemNew York City Subway
    Map of Subway Tunnel
    Subway operation

    Initially, the IRT intended to use the tunnel for trolleys; however, it subsequently decided instead to use the tubes for a heavy-rail rapid transit line, a concept that later became known as premetro. After the IRT measu… See more

    Further reading

    • IRT Corona/Flushing Line from nycsubway.org.
    • Anastasio, Joe (September 4, 2012). "Grand Central Trolley Loop". ltvsquad.com. Retrieved July 31, 2015.
    • Cudahy, Brian J. (1995). Under the Sidewalks … See more

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