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Golden Age of Stagflation - New York Subway Map 1979 - The Less Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
The 1970s were a decade of decay and decline for the New York City Subway system - 3 lines were closed and nothing added. This is a portion of a map issued in 1979 to mark the 75th Anniversary of the opening of the system. Only 2 additions had been made in the Midtown central business district since the 1930s - a one station extension of the Sixth Avenue Line north to 57th Street and completion of the express tracks between 4th Street and 34th Street, (bypassing 14th Street and 23rd Street (circled on the map). Meanwhile the 2nd Avenue, 3rd Avenue, 6th Avenue, and Ninth Avenue elevated lines were closed in Manhattan by 1955. 60 years later the "replacement" Second Avenue subway (started and abandoned in the 1970s) still has not opened.
Outside of Manhattan, the remainder of the 3rd Avenue line in the Bronx, the Culver Shuttle in Brooklyn, and most of the Myrtle Avenue line (also in Brooklyn) were abandoned and replaced by buses in the 1970s.
Not until 1989 was a new section opened in Midtown, the "tunnel to nowhere" from the 57th Street station to a dead end stub in Queens. After another 12 years (2001), the stub was extended 1500 feet and finally connected to the Queens Boulevard line and became useful.
Added September 2017: whats left of the Myrtle Avenue Line in Brooklyn is closed to reconstruct the curved ramp linking it to the Broadway Line. It was an "afterthought" about 100 years ago -- a low speed link partially over buildings with a level junction.
Golden Age of Stagflation - New York Subway Map 1979 - The Less Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
The 1970s were a decade of decay and decline for the New York City Subway system - 3 lines were closed and nothing added. This is a portion of a map issued in 1979 to mark the 75th Anniversary of the opening of the system. Only 2 additions had been made in the Midtown central business district since the 1930s - a one station extension of the Sixth Avenue Line north to 57th Street and completion of the express tracks between 4th Street and 34th Street, (bypassing 14th Street and 23rd Street (circled on the map). Meanwhile the 2nd Avenue, 3rd Avenue, 6th Avenue, and Ninth Avenue elevated lines were closed in Manhattan by 1955. 60 years later the "replacement" Second Avenue subway (started and abandoned in the 1970s) still has not opened.
Outside of Manhattan, the remainder of the 3rd Avenue line in the Bronx, the Culver Shuttle in Brooklyn, and most of the Myrtle Avenue line (also in Brooklyn) were abandoned and replaced by buses in the 1970s.
Not until 1989 was a new section opened in Midtown, the "tunnel to nowhere" from the 57th Street station to a dead end stub in Queens. After another 12 years (2001), the stub was extended 1500 feet and finally connected to the Queens Boulevard line and became useful.
Added September 2017: whats left of the Myrtle Avenue Line in Brooklyn is closed to reconstruct the curved ramp linking it to the Broadway Line. It was an "afterthought" about 100 years ago -- a low speed link partially over buildings with a level junction.