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new york city trains and subway name elma daniels class edse 604 instructor timothy bellavia

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new york city transit museum · grade level 4th grade · standard 1 history of new york and new york city 1.3 students will be able to learn about the economic and technological development in new york state standard 3.1 geography and standard 4.1 economics also apply to this lesson.

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·students interest i believe that children are fascinated by trains and have many questions about them this subject is also theme appropriate the new york transit museum is located at 130 livingston street brooklyn ny 11201 at the corner of boerum place and schermerhorn street in brooklyn heights the hours are tuesday-friday 10am-4pm,saturday-sunday 11am 5pm.

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appropriateness the visit to this museum reinforces the lesson on urban growth and historical development theme vi post revolutionary economic development a new markets 2.technological advances b railroads viii urbanization of new yorcity city a scientific and technological advances 4 subways

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towards the end of the century electricity led to electric trolley cars that operated with over head lines for power the person responsible of sending electricity through wires was nikolas tesla the early trains were made out of wood.

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new york s city rapid transit was build with the use of ordinary tools to build the subways streets were torn up and tunnels were dug out five different types of construction were used in building the subways the main materials used were steel cast iron cement and water among others the work was very difficult in many places because of the sewers water and gas mains stem pipes and electric conduits it was also very difficult when it passed close to the foundation of the large buildings.

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there were many attempts to build a subway system the first was by alfred e beach in 1869 it was a 312 feet long tunnel the train was operated by a pneumatic pressure.

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new york city first official subway opened in manhattan on october 27 1904 it ran nine miles with 28 stations the interborough expanded to the bronx in 1905 to brooklyn in 1908 and to queens in 1915 in 1932 the irt created the first city run subway service.

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the rapid transit was able to move more people around the city people traveled faster because the train was powered by electricity this technology also helped the economy and it led to the urbanization and growth of the city this changed the way people lived and worked.

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these are some of the first token booths in new york city people paid five cent to ride the subway from 1904 to 1948 tokens were first used in 1953 and discontinued in 2003.

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about 40 of the subway trains run on elevated tracks trains today are made of stainless steel with carbon steel chassis over 1,604,198,017 people travel each day on the subway they are 24 train services in the new york city subway system including three shuttle trains each route has a color code number or letter the subway operates on a 24 hour basis.

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