August Belmont In 1905, just a year after the opening of the IRT, the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners announced plans for an additional nineteen subway lines. New tracks would run one hundred ...

Last fall when Cincinnati asked for ideas for what to do with its empty, 2.2-mile abandoned subway tunnel system, many Enquirer readers and social media commenters had the same response ...

curated the original plan for the Interborough Rapid Transit subway — the city’s first underground train system. Chugging along as a novelty to Manhattanites of the early 1900s, the IRT ...