Everything about The 60th Street Tunnel Connection totally explained
The
60th Street Tunnel Connection or
11th Street Connection is a short
rapid transit line of the
New York City Subway connecting the
BMT 60th Street Tunnel under the
East River (which connects to the
BMT Broadway Line) with the
IND Queens Boulevard Line west of
Queens Plaza in
Long Island City, Queens,
New York City,
United States. The 11th Street Connection name comes from the street above the split from the 60th Street Tunnel. The line doesn't have any stations, and carries trains of the
R service at all times but late nights.
The connection opened on
December 1,
1955, 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). 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
Ditmars Boulevard–Astoria 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. Late night service was later truncated to
36th Street in Brooklyn.
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