Minutes to Midtown
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By ANGELA MATUA
AMATUA@QNS.COM / @ANGELAMATUA
A new exhibit
at the New York
Transit Museum will
explore Queens’ first
subway line and how
it transformed the
borough socially and
economically.
“7 Train: Minutes to Midnight” will open on
Aug. 3, and museumgoers will be able to view
photographs and objects from the line’s beginnings
in 1915 and beyond.
The 7 line is different from other early lines
in that it was built to attract more residents
to the underpopulated borough. Other subways,
like the IRT Ninth Avenue line, were
constructed in densely populated areas
in lower Manhattan. The first 7 train ran on
June 22, 1915.
TRANSPORTATION
Between Queensboro Plaza and 33rd St GÇô Rawson Station_ View from Packard Building, Queens, 1916
Main Street Flushing, 2016
Photo by John Sanderson
