Happy Birthday To Roosevelt Island Subway Station Service Which Began October 29, 1989 - No More Late Night Walking Thru Subway Tunnels From Manhattan To Get Home
Happy 30th Birthday to the Roosevelt Island subway station service and the MTA' 63rd street tunnel which opened October 29, 1989.
#TodayinHistory: #OnThisDay in 1989, the 63rd Street Extension opened with new stations at Lexington Avenue, Roosevelt Island, and 21st Street/41st Avenue in Queens. Served today by the F train, the extension connects the IND Sixth Avenue line to the IND Queens Boulevard line. pic.twitter.com/DWw0VNaonR— NY Transit Museum (@NYTransitMuseum) October 29, 2019
Hard to imagine for us newcomers, those who moved here after 1989 what public transportation was like before the subway with only the Tram to get back and forth to Manhattan.
I'm told by Roosevelt Island old timers that before the subway opened, some took late night walks through the subway tunnel to get home from Manhattan.
Take a look at these 1970's MTA videos about building the 63rd street subway tunnel staged, at what was then Welfare Island,
which was scheduled to open for subway service in 1976
and construction
of the Second Avenue Subway
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