60th Street Tunnel Connection

Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:60th Street Tunnel Connection The 60th Street Tunnel Connection<ref>New York City Transit Authority, Rapid Transit Construction Program, Map, File No. 72, Dwg. No. 699, dated June 14, 1954</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> or 11th Street Cut<ref>Gene Sansone, New York Subways: An Illustrated History of New York City's Transit Cars, Template:ISBN, pp. 184 and 292</ref> is a short rapid transit line of the New York City Subway, within the Long Island City neighborhood in Queens. It connects the 60th Street Tunnel under the East River (which connects to the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan) with the IND Queens Boulevard Line west of Queens Plaza. The 11th Street Connection name comes from the street above the split from the 60th Street Tunnel. The line does not have any stations, and carries Template:NYCS time 2 trains at all times but late nights.

History

The connection opened on December 1, 1955,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and permitted BMT trains from Brooklyn to use the IND Queens Boulevard Line; the first service to do so was the Brighton Beach Local via Tunnel (1, now Q).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> This connection allowed for an increase of 20 trains per hour on Queens Boulevard.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Unlike the later Chrystie Street Connection, this was of the nature of a trackage rights operation, without the mixing of BMT and IND equipment or crews, as opposed to a true operating integration.

Service history

The first service to use the connection was the daytime 1 local via Montague Street Tunnel, which became the QT in the early 1960s. The QT was rerouted to Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard on January 1, 1961, and the RR was sent through the connection during daytime hours. The EE was created on November 26, 1967, when the Chrystie Street Connection opened and the RR moved back to Astoria. On August 27, 1976, the N was extended through the connection, absorbing the EE; this change sent late night and weekend trains through the tunnel for the first time. The N and R were swapped in Queens on May 24, 1987, taking the R through the connection in a move that reassigned a former BMT route (the R) to the IND's Jamaica Yard (it had heretofore used the Coney Island Yard).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Late night service was later truncated to 36th Street in Brooklyn,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> then later extended to Whitehall Street in Manhattan.<ref>*{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}

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Routing

Disabled access	Station	Tracks	Services	Opened	Notes
begins as a split from the IND Queens Boulevard Line local tracks south of Queens Plaza
	(no stations)	local	Template:NYCS time 2	December 1, 1955
merges with the BMT Astoria Line ({{#ifeq:{{{exclude}}}|N						Template:NYCS time 2Template:NYCS br}}{{#if:	W	Template:NYCS time 2}}) south of Queensboro Plaza and enters the 60th Street Tunnel as the BMT Broadway Line local tracks