Joralemon Street Tunnel

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Joralemon Street Tunnel
Carries 2 tracks of the 4 and 5 trains of the New York City Subway
Crosses East River
Locale Manhattan, New York and Brooklyn, New York
Maintained by Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Opening date 1908
Joralemon Street Tunnel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Architect: Parson, William Barclay; McDonald, Andrew, et al.
Added to NRHP: February 09, 2006
NRHP Reference#: 06000015[1]
MPS: New York City Subway System MPS

The Joralemon Street Tunnel carries the 4 and 5 trains of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway under the East River between Bowling Green, Manhattan, New York and Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, New York. It was the first underground subway tunnel connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
  2. ^ Battery-Joralemon Street Tunnel, American Society of Civil Engineers. Accessed October 12, 2007.
  1. "Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities", Vol. 20, No. 1, February 2006, pp. 92-107 , (doi 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3828(2006)20:1(92))
 
Crossings of the East River
Upstream
Montague Street Tunnel
NYC Subway M serviceNYC Subway R service		 Joralemon Street Tunnel
NYC Subway 4 serviceNYC Subway 5 service		 Downstream
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel
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