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63rd Street Tunnel, 41, 249, 250–251
64th Street Tunnel, 249
Smith, Alfred E., 4, 5–6, 8, 10, 130, 131, 132
naming of Commission to Investigate Hylan/Transit Commission controversy, 130
Smith, Clarence B., 116
Smith, J. Simeon, 243
Smith Street Line, 18, 19, 40
Smuckler, David E., 235
Snyder, John J., 113, 120
Somers, Arthur S., 39
South Bronx, 173, 233
South Marlboro, 123
South 4th Street-South Queens Trunk Line, 11, 13–14, 41, 42
“South New York,” 121
Southeast Queens line, 253
Spear, Maynard H., 52, 53
Special Committee on the Long Island Rail Road, 250
Special Transit Committee, 229, 230
Spitzer, Eliot, 225
Springfield Gardens, 253
Springsteen and Goldhammer, 77
Standing Committee on the City Plan, 256
Stark, Abe, 219
State of the MTA Report, The, 254
Staten Island, 120, 136, 227, 237, 284
Boulevard subway line, 133–134
calls for extension of subway service to, 121–123
connection to 4th Avenue line, 121, 123, 124–125, 129
discussion of extending subway service to, 1, 54, 124–125, 126, 133, 134, 237
inclusion in Board of Transportation capital plans, 18, 43, 135
inclusion in Brinckerhoff plan, 155
inclusion in McAdoo plan, 152
inclusion in Regional Plan of New York Plan, 166
inclusion in Suburban Transit Engineering Board plan, 164
Liberty Bridge, 133
1925 mayoral elections, 132–133
opposition to passenger rail tunnel, 131
Transit Construction Commission report, 126–127
Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, 123, 125, 132, 134
Staten Island Railway, 120
Staten Island Rapid Transit, 120, 121, 125, 133, 159, 164, 167
end of service on North Shore and South Beach Lines, 238
North Shore Line, 125, 133, 262
South Beach Line, 131, 136
takeover by City, 238
Staten Island Subway Committee, 125–126
Staten Island Taxpayers Association, 134
Station Road, 51
Steers, Alfred E., 50, 58, 152
Stein, Clarence S., 94, 154
Steingut, Irwin, 238
Steinway Tunnels, 48, 64, 276
Stephens, Olin S., 76
Stephens, Roderick, 186, 192
Stevenson, Frederick Boyd, 119
Stock Market Crash (1929), 89
Stewart Railroad, 55, 60, 277
Straus, Nathan, Jr., 93–94, 99, 103, 104, 105, 154
Straus, Oscar, 93
Stuyvesant Avenue, 114, 115, 116, 118
Stuyvesant Avenue Property Owners Association, 115
Stuyvesant Board of Trade, 116
Suburban Transit Engineering Board, 6, 163–164, 167, 168
Suburban Transit Commission, 160
Subway Stations:
Baychester Avenue (Boston Road line), 91
Baychester Avenue (Dyre Avenue line), 196, 233
Bay Ridge Avenue, 125
Bedford–Nostrand Avenues, 41, 42, 43
Bedford Park Boulevard, 76
Bergen Street, 23
Broadway, 11
Broadway-East New York, 15
Bronx Park, 280
Burke Avenue, 253
Canal Street (8th Avenue), 11
Chambers Street (Nassau Street), 257
Church Avenue (Utica Avenue), 114
Court Square, 41
Court Street, 291
De Kalb Avenue, 19, 36, 137, 138, 214
Dyre Avenue, 193, 195, 196
Eastchester Road, 105
47–50th Street–Rockefeller Center, 250
48th Street (2nd Avenue), 220
57th Street (2nd Avenue), 220
59th Street (4th Avenue), 18, 125
86th Street (2nd Avenue), 220
Flushing-Main Street, 47, 66, 71, 73, 148, 257
Forest Hills–71st Avenue, 44
Grand Central, 71
Grand Street, 215, 216
Hoyt–Schermerhorn, 205
Intervale Avenue–163rd Street, 117
Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer, 253
Lexington Avenue–63rd Street, 199, 225
Mets–Willets Point, 279
Myrtle Avenue, 214
Nassau Avenue, 23
Nevins Street, 274, 290
96th Street (2nd Avenue), 220
103rd Street-Corona Plaza, 257
106th Street, 193
125th Street (2nd Avenue), 220
138th Street-Grand Concourse, 245
177th Street-Parkchester, 228
179th Street, 233
Queens Plaza, 23
Queensboro Plaza, 68
Roosevelt Avenue–Jackson Heights, 273
2nd Avenue, 204, 205
63rd Drive–Rego Park, 15
65th Street, 273
72nd Street (2nd Avenue), 220
76th Street, 146
Smith–9th Street, 134
34th Street (2nd Avenue), 220
Times Square, 71
21st Street–Queensbridge, 253
205th Street, 256
Union Turnpike–Kew Gardens, 19
Utica Avenue (Eastern Parkway), 111
Utica Avenue (Fulton Street), 118, 120
Willets Point Boulevard, 63
Woodhaven Boulevard-Slattery Plaza, 166, 253
Suffolk County, 250
Sullivan, Francis X., 15, 99, 104, 230
Sullivan, John, 133
Sullivan, William P., 78
Sulzer, William, 6, 35
Sunnyside, 47
Sunnyside Yards, 167
“Super Subway” service, 250
Sutton, Percy E., 218, 219
Suydam, Jacob, 114
Swanstrom, J. Edward, 123, 124
Sycamore Avenue, 51, 53
Tammany Hall, 36, 132, 133
Taxpayers Alliance of the Bronx, 92
Taylor, Frank J., 104, 105
10th Avenue, 135
10th Avenue line, 18–19, 135, 146, 259
Terry, Ira S., 52, 53, 56, 70
3rd Avenue, 166, 233
3rd Avenue Elevated, 258
connection with Concourse line, 80
connection with Pelham line, 76
demolition of Lower Manhattan segment, 213
demolition of remainder of line in Manhattan, 214–215
extension to the city line, 78
impact of construction, 200, 221
inclusion in 1948 Board of Transportation capital plan, 233
proposal to demolish, 203, 213, 214–215, 236
3rd Avenue subway, 203
Third Ward (Queens), 51, 53, 58, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66, 67, 70
Third Ward Farmers and Taxpayers Association, 60
Third Ward Rapid Transit Association, 67
Third Ward Transit League, 61, 62, 63, 64, 70
34th Street line, 205
Thomas Garden Apartments, 77
Throggs Neck, 209, 211, 237
Throggs Neck Property Owners Association, 82, 83
Tokens, 240
Tottenville, 120
Tozzi, Thomas, 186, 233–234
Transit Authority, New York City:
1962–1963 plan, 145
Transit and Transportation, 166
Transit Authority, New York City, 72
Transit Commission, New York State:
actions against New York, Westchester and Boston Railway service reductions, 100
awarding of contract for Flushing line work, 71
conflicts with Board of Estimate, 128
conflicts with Mayor Hylan, 38, 71, 128, 130, 140, 256–257
discussion of East Side service, 201–203
discussion of suburban transit plans, 155–156, 159
discussion of transit system unification, 185–186
formation of, 8
hearings on elevated line demolition, 206
McAvoy Commission investigation and report, 130–131, 133
1922 capital plan, 75–76
proposals for Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown line, 36–37
Queens Parkway Plan, 154
Transit Construction Commission, New York, 5–6, 36, 126, 138–139, 153
Staten Island Subway Report, 126–127, 128, 133
Transit Construction Commissioner’s Plan, 6–7, 201
Transit Land Use Districts, 223
Transit Truths, 257
Transport Workers Union, 177, 206, 228, 230, 240
Transportation, New York Board of, 6, 120, 188, 212, 255, 258
acquisition of Rockaway Beach line, 236–237
action on Concourse line, 87
capital plans, 18–19, 20, 93, 140, 142, 143, 197, 211, 213, 214, 230, 231, 233, 236, 237, 238, 256, 259
change in focus on system expansion, 211
demolition of elevated lines, 207
demolition of the 6th Avenue El, 205
demolition of Lower Manhattan segment of the 3rd Avenue El, 213
discussion of acquisition of New York, Westchester and Boston Railway tracks, 107, 108, 169, 186–187, 191, 195
discussion of Bronx subway service, 78–83, 197, 198, 203
discussion of Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown line, 39–41, 43–45
discussion of Burke Avenue Line, 82–83, 97–98, 99, 184
discussion of Concourse line extensions, 77
discussion of Dyre Avenue Line fare structure, 196
discussion of East Side trunk line, 83, 202, 203
discussion of Ehrhart plan, 100–101
discussion of Utica Avenue line, 118–120
end of service over Queensboro Bridge, 73
extension of Flushing Line, 71, 72
formation of, 11
funding issues, 15–16, 18, 120, 141–142, 213–214, 227–230, 232, 235, 237–238, 240–242, 244–245, 247, 251
need for postwar service and system upgrades, 227
need to upgrade existing system, 235
1929 capital plan, 11, 14, 88, 89, 92, 133
1929 Plan Public Hearings, 15, 87, 89, 91, 92, 120, 204
1932 capital plan, 15, 86, 93
1944–1948 postwar plan, 197, 209–211
1947 capital plan, 211, 230
1948 capital plan, 231–232, 233
1949 capital plan, 234
1950 capital plan, 236
1951 capital plan, 237
1951 Transportation Bond Issue, 236, 237, 243
1952 capital plan, 214, 238
participation in Suburban Transit Engineering Board, 164
plans for Fulton Street Line, 137, 142–145, 148
plans for Queens Boulevard line, 155
plans for Staten Island subway, 133, 133, 135
plans for Utica Avenue line, 111, 236
Transportation, New York City Department of, 74
Transportation Bond Issues, 213
Trapani, Paul, 188–189, 190, 193–194
Travis, Eugene M., 31, 33
Treadwell, James W., 57–58, 60
Tremont Avenue, 76
Tremont Avenue Crosstown Line, 147, 197, 198, 233
Tri-Borough Plan, 2, 3, 4, 28, 39, 47, 150, 200
Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, 230
Tribus, Louis L., 125
Tugwell, Rexford Guy, 173
“Tunnel to Nowhere,” 249
Turner, Daniel L., 53, 168, 254, 262
background, 6
concepts for transit planning, 47, 155–156, 211–212
development of Transit Construction Commission plan, 6–8, 201, 221
Metropolitan Transit System plan, 156–159, 201–202, 250
North Jersey Transit Commission plan, 159
Port Washington Line lease negotiations with Long Island Rail Road, 67
Queens Parkway plan, 153–154
Staten Island transit plans, 126–127, 128, 133
suburban transit plans, 74, 164
work with New York State Transit Commission, 202, 203
work with Regional Plan of New York, 168
Tuttle, Arthur S., 117–118, 128, 129
22nd Street, 51
23rd Street, 154
205th Street, 100
221st Street, 56
Tysen, David J., 123
Union Street, 52
Union Turnpike, 168
United Civic Association, 62, 63
United Civic Association of the Bronx, 169
Unity Taxpayers Protective Association, 100
University Heights, 77, 83
University Place, 163
Urban Mass Transportation Act, 223, 247
Upper Flushing, 68
Upper Flushing Improvement Association, 60
Utica Avenue, 152
Utica Avenue–Crosstown Line, 11, 119, 121, 203, 204
Utica Avenue line, 110–111, 125, 227, 254
access to Jamaica Bay Seaport, 127
assessment plan to finance construction, 117
calls for construction, 243
inclusion in Board of Transportation plans, 119–120, 236, 238
inclusion in “New Routes” plan, 253
location of stations, 283
non-inclusion in Transit Authority plans, 240
planning for line, 111–116, 118–119
real estate sales in anticipation of, 112–113
Utica Avenue–Stuyvesant Avenue line, 119, 120
Utica Avenue Subway Extension League, 116
Van Cortlandt Park, 76
Van Name, Calvin D., 125, 126, 127
Van Wyck, Robert A., 1
Van Wyck Boulevard line, 11, 16, 253
Van Wyck Expressway, 44
Verrazano Narrows Bridge, 120
Vital Gaps in New York Metropolitan Arteries, 195
Vogel, Edward, 18–19, 146, 241, 259
Volpe, John, 219, 221
Wagner, Edmund F., 216
Wagner, Robert F., 32, 99, 170, 275
Wagner, Robert F., Jr., 213, 214, 239–240, 244, 245–246, 248
Wakefield Taxpayers Association, 83
Walker, James Blaine, 67
Walker, James J., 260
absence from Flushing line opening, 72
election as mayor, 38, 40
lack of a planning agency during term of office, 256
1929 mayoral elections, 87
opposition to new elevated lines, 88–89
opposition to fare increase; 260
resignation as mayor, 15, 94, 95, 96
sponsorship of legislation creating Board of Transportation, 10
subway construction delays, 257
subway service to East Bronx, 203
Walsh, Edward J., 78
Warburton Avenue, 56, 60
Wave, The, 15
Webster Avenue, 198, 233
Weehawken, 159
Weiner, Anthony D., 225
Weisberger, Robert, 213
Weismann, Henry, 115
Welsch, James M., 77, 88
West Bronx Taxpayers Alliance, 77
West End Line, 18, 19, 110, 216
West Farms, 76, 93
Westchester County, 84, 105, 106, 108, 160, 172, 179, 183, 192, 196
Westchester County Board of Supervisors, 163, 169, 170
Westchester County Transit Commission, 157–159, 160, 162
Westergren, Maurice, 76
Whitestone, 44, 53, 59, 60, 63, 68
Whitestone Improvement Association, 53, 55, 63, 64, 65, 66
Whitestone Landing, 66
White Plains Road Line, 76, 80, 86, 93, 98, 103–104, 180, 193, 203, 205, 228, 229, 233, 234, 245
White Pot Junction
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Whitman, Charles S., 65
Whitney, Daniel D., 24, 25
Whitney, Travis, 65, 67, 68, 69, 159–160
Willcox, William R., 34, 51, 53, 55, 151, 152, 153
Williams, Alford, J., 78
Williams, George V. S., 56, 61
Williams, Timothy S., 30–31, 34
Williamsbridge Road, 77
Williamsburg, 26, 28, 41
Williamsburg Bridge, 28, 200, 215, 216
Willis, P. B., 83
Williamsburg Bridge Plaza, 28
Williamson, Pliny W., 170, 171, 172, 173
Wilson, Malcolm, 223
Wilson, Rev. W. W. W., 34
Wiman, Erastus, 122, 123, 125
Windels, Paul, Sr., 234
Winfield, 47
Wingate, George W., 25
Wolpert, George, 237
Wolf, Henry F. A., 80
Wood, Charles E., 109
Wood, Harmon and Company, 109–110, 113, 116, 120, 121, 136
advertising campaigns, 113
land purchases in Brooklyn, 109
marketing land tied to Staten Island subway, 121, 122
marketing land tied to transit system, 109–110, 112, 113, 123
Woodside, 47
Workers Cooperative Colony, 77
World Trade Center, 168
World’s Fair Extension, 43–44, 45
Worth Street line, 11, 14
WRCA-TV, 242
Wurzbach, Fred, 80, 82, 83, 89–90, 91
Wythe Avenue, 25, 26
Yankee Stadium, 84
Yonkers Herald Statesman, 172
Yunich, David L., 223
Zion Parish House, 58
zoning variances tied to rapid transit projects, 117, 222
Zuccotti, John E., 223