Editing Independent Subway System (section)

===More branch lines open===
The [[IND Fulton Street Line|Fulton Street Line]] was opened from Jay Street to [[Rockaway Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)|Rockaway Avenue]] on April 9, 1936, including the stub terminal at [[New York Transit Museum#Historic use as station|Court Street]]. A shuttle was operated between Court Street and Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets.<ref name="Rutgers2"/><ref name="nyt19360409">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/04/09/archives/new-subway-link-opened-by-mayor-he-tells-15000-in-brooklyn-it-will.html|title=New Subway Link Opened by Mayor; He Tells 15,000 in Brooklyn It Will Be Extended to Queens When Red Tape Is Cut.|date=April 9, 1936|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=August 15, 2016}}</ref>

On December 31, 1936, the Queens Boulevard Line was extended from Roosevelt Avenue to [[Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike (IND Queens Boulevard Line)|Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/127872292@N06/21882894551/|title=Reproduction Poster of Extension to Union Turnpike – Kew Gardens|website=Flickr – Photo Sharing!|date=October 2015|access-date=April 26, 2016}}</ref><ref name="WheelsDroveNY-20123">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfZ0VxuLoc0C&pg=PA416|title=The Wheels That Drove New York: A History of the New York City Transit System|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-30484-2|pages=416–417|author1=Roger P. Roess|author2=Gene Sansone}}</ref><ref name="NYTimes-RoosevelttoUTpkeOpen-1036">{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/12/30/88096632.pdf|title=PWA Party Views New Subway Link: Queens Section to Be Opened Tomorrow Is Inspected by Tuttle and Others|date=December 30, 1936|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref><ref name=":32"/>

The Queens Boulevard Line was extended to Hillside Avenue and 178th Street, with a terminal station at 169th Street on April 24, 1937.<ref name=":032"/><ref name="WheelsDroveNY-20123"/><ref name="NYTImes-QBL169Ext-1937">{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/17/118965719.pdf|title=Subway Link Opens Soon: City Line to Jamaica Will Start About April 24|date=March 17, 1937|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 27, 2015}}</ref><ref name="NYTImes-169Test-1937">{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/04/09/94351009.pdf|title=Trial Run to Jamaica on Subway Tomorrow: Section From Kew Gardens to 169th Street Will Open to Public in Two Weeks|date=April 9, 1937|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 30, 2015}}</ref> That day, express service began on the Queens Boulevard Line during rush hours, with '''E''' trains running express west of 71st–Continental Avenues, and '''GG''' trains taking over the local during rush hours.<ref name="INDServicesChart2">{{cite web|url=http://www.thejoekorner.com/lines/Indhistory.htm|title=Independent Subway Services Beginning in 1932|date=August 21, 2013|website=thejoekorner.com|access-date=August 2, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Sparberg20142">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oktGCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA111|title=From a Nickel to a Token: The Journey from Board of Transportation to MTA|last=Sparberg|first=Andrew J.|date=2014|publisher=Fordham University Press|isbn=978-0-8232-6190-1}}</ref> The initial headway for express service was between three and five minutes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/04/24/archives/transit-link-open-today-8th-ave-line-extended-to-jamaicacelebration.html|title=Transit Link Opens Today; 8th Ave. Line Extended to Jamaica – Celebration Arranged|date=April 24, 1937|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=August 4, 2016}}</ref>
[[File:Smith Ninth night vc.jpg|thumb|[[Smith–Ninth Streets (IND Culver Line)|Smith–Ninth Streets]]]]

The entire Crosstown Line was completed and connected to the [[IND Culver Line]] on July 1, 1937, whereupon the '''GG''' was extended in both directions to [[Smith–Ninth Streets (IND Culver Line)|Smith–Ninth Streets]] and [[Forest Hills–71st Avenue (IND Queens Boulevard Line)|Forest Hills–71st Avenue]].<ref name="nycsubway.org" /><ref name="bde19370701">{{cite news|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52688792/?terms=crosstown%2Bsubway|title=New Crosstown Subway Line Is Opened|date=July 1, 1937|newspaper=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|access-date=December 24, 2015}}</ref>

From April 30, 1939 to October 28, 1940, the Queens Boulevard Line served the [[1939 New York World's Fair]] via the [[IND World's Fair Line|World's Fair Railroad]]. The World's Fair line ran via a connection through the [[Jamaica Yard]] and through [[Flushing Meadows–Corona Park]] along the current right-of-way of the [[Van Wyck Expressway]].<ref name="Raskin-RoutesNotTaken-20135"/><ref name="WheelsDroveNY-20123"/><ref name="NYTImes-ToBuildFairSubway-1937">{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/10/27/94447453.pdf|title=To Build Fair Subway P. T. Cox Co. Wins Award for Extending Independent System The first contract for the World's Fair spur from the Queens Boulevard line of the Independent Subway System was awarded yesterday by the Board of Transportation to the lowest bidder, the P. T. Cox Contracting Company, at the bid price of $308,770|date=October 27, 1937|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=July 6, 2015}}</ref> Despite calls from public officials such as Queens Borough President George Harvey to make the line a permanent connection to [[Flushing, Queens|Flushing]] and northern Queens, the line was demolished in 1941.<ref name="Raskin-RoutesNotTaken-20135"/>