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March 19 - June 19, 1997
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While there had been elevated
trains in Manhattan and Brooklyn since the late 1800s, mass transit did
not come to Queens until the early 1900s. The Interborough Rapid Transit
Company (IRT) and the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) operated
elevated lines which ran over the Queensboro, Manhattan and Williamsburg
Bridges, opening up Brooklyn and Queens to development. In the 1930s the
city began construction of the Independent Subway System (IND). The IRT,
BMT and IND were united under city ownership in the 1940s. Today, over
a billion people ride the New York City subways each year.
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