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This 5 page paper discusses the impact of the subway system in New York City. Completed and operating in 1904, the Interborough Rapid Transit underground railway, usually called the IRT subway, provided a much-needed rapid transit system in this growing city. The subway resulted in land use changes, for example, changing farm land in some areas into apartment buildings and other residences. The numerous construction projects spurred the economy with more jobs. The subway was the catalyst for the development of Times Square, Broadway and other areas so well-known. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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City Hall Loop north to Grand Central, north to Broadway and 145th Street and west to Times Square (Korman, 2002). Opening day for the subway was October 27, 1904 (Katz,
2001). The opening marked a victory for the supporters because having the subway approved had been a long and hard battle (Katz, 2001). The supporters saw the underground rapid transit
system as a solution to any number of social, economic and political problems that threatened the citys preeminence both at home and abroad (Katz, 2001). Here was a city that
had grown from an "oversized seaport town into a giant industrial and commercial metropolis: the largest city in the United States and the second city in the world" (Katz, 2001).
Politically, the native business elite who had controlled New Yorks politics since the revolutionary war were losing ground to new political leaders from immigrant groups, especially to the Irish (Katz,
2001). The IRT was designed to carry 600,000 passengers per day, by December, the IRT had 300,000 passengers and on its one-year anniversary, the IRT announced that it was quickly
reaching maximum capacity (Hood, Part 1, 2001). By 1908, the daily count exceeded 800,000 and in 1914, the IRT was carrying 1.2 million passengers per day (Hood, Part 1, 2001).
When the subway opened in 1904, it launched an unprecedented era of growth and prosperity for the newly unified New York City. The new subway spurred massive construction projects for
both businesses and residences. Political, social and economic issues were relatively inseparable at the time. Throngs of immigrants went to New York, most of whom were from the "poorest, most
backward, rural areas of Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe" (Katz, 2001). They settled in densely populated and overcrowded areas of the lower East Side of Manhattan, which was where they
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