Why are there so many parts of NYC without subway service?
Village Voice has the answer
Why do many parts of the city, such as Midtown and Downtown Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, have so many subway lines while other parts, such as southeast Brooklyn and eastern Queens, have almost none? The Village Voice attempts to answer this question with a brief history of the subway system.
It begins with the fact that the system was built initially by two private companies, Interborough Rapid Transit and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, which were later joined by the city-owned Independent (IND) system. The Voice traces the city’s subway woes to the Depression. The economic downtown, and the war that followed, stymied plans for the IND’s “Second System,” which would have built more than a half-dozen new lines all over the city. Since then, those new lines that have been constructed, such as the 63rd Street tunnel, the 1989 extension in Jamaica, Queens and the recently opened Second Avenue line, are basically very scaled-down versions of much longer planned routes.
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