The IND Second System was a plan for a major expansion of the city-owned Independent Subway System in New York, New York. Very little of it was built, though pieces were sometimes built for future expansion on lines that intersect the proposals. Its most famous line, the Second Avenue Line (and its southern extension, originally called the Water Street, New Bowery and Chrystie Street Line), is still being planned, and a short part opened in 1967 as the Chrystie Street Connection.
The first plan was made on September 15, 1929, and is detailed in the table below. Cost is only for construction, and doesn't include land acqusition or other items.
owned by IRT, to be taken over ("recaptured") by IND
Bronx total
19.04
51.32
$77,000,000
Brooklyn
Broadway Branch Line (Rockaway Line)
Broadway
East River
Havemeyer Street at South Fourth Street
2
3.16
13.5
$34,800,000
subway
Utica Avenue Line (and Rockaway Line from Havemeyer Street to Stuyvesant Avenue)
Grand Street - South Fourth Street - Beaver Street
East River
Stuyvesant Avenue
2 to Driggs Avenue 4 to Union Avenue 8 to Bushwick Avenue 4 to Stuyvesant Avenue
subway
Stuyvesant Avenue - Utica Avenue
Broadway
Flatbush Avenue
4
5.85
23.4
$39,300,000
subway to Avenue J, then elevated
Avenue S
Utica Avenue
Nostrand Avenue
2
1.1
2.2
$2,000,000
elevated
Nostrand Avenue
Avenue S
Voorhies Avenue
4
1.3
5.2
$3,200,000
elevated
Rockaway Line
Myrtle Avenue
Bushwick Avenue
Palmetto Avenue
4
1.34
5.36
$14,300,000
subway
Liberty Avenue
Fulton Street and Eastern Parkway
Grant Avenue
4
1.84
7.36
$13,500,000
subway extending the Fulton Street Line to a portal at Liberty Avenue and Crescent Street, then elevated to connect to the BMT Liberty Avenue Line (now part of the Fulton Street Line) at Grant Avenue
Brooklyn subtotal
14.59
57.02
$107,100,000
Nostrand Avenue Extension
Flatbush Avenue
Avenue S
2
2.25
4.5
$7,400,000
Extension of Nostrand Avenue Line as subway to Kings Highway, then elevated
Brooklyn total
16.84
61.52
$114,500,000
Queens
Rockaway Line
Myrtle Avenue - Central Avenue
Palmetto Avenue
78th Street
4
2.1
8.4
$17,300,000
subway to Central Avenue near 73rd Place, then along the surface or elevated
98th Street - 99th Street - Hawtree Street
78th Street
Hammels Station
4 to Howard Beach 2 to Hammels
9.2
26.2
$20,200,000
along the surface or elevated
Rockaway Beach Boulevard
Beach 116th Street
Mott Avenue
2
5.0
10.0
$7,400,000
along the surface or elevated
Newport Avenue
Beach 116th Street
Beach 149th Street
2
1.6
3.2
$2,400,000
along the surface or elevated
Winfield Spur
Garfield Avenue - 65th Place - Fresh Pond Road
Broadway and 78th Street
Central Avenue
2
3.34
6.68
$10,100,000
subway to 45th Avenue, then elevated to Fresh Pond Road, then subway
elevated extension of the BMT Liberty Avenue Line (now part of the Fulton Street Line) includes branch connection to Jamaica Avenue Elevated (BMT) at 168th Street, via 180th Street and Jamaica Avenue
Van Wyck Boulevard Line
137th Street - Van Wyck Boulevard
87th Avenue
Rockaway Boulevard
2
2.3
4.6
$6,600,000
subway to about 166th Avenue, then elevated
120th Avenue Line
120th Avenue - Springfield Boulevard
Hawtree Street near North Conduit Boulevard
Foch Boulevard
4 to Van Wyck Boulevard 2 to Foch Boulevard
5.23
13.92
$9,500,000
elevated
Queens subtotal
34.97
88.30
$84,200,000
Roosevelt Avenue - First Street - Station Road - 38th Avenue
Main Street
221st Street
3 to 147th Street 2 to 221st Street
3.6
7.78
$9,600,000
extends the BMT/IRTFlushing Line as a subway to 155th Street, then elevated
The INDSecondSystem describes a planned but unbuilt major addition to the Independent Subway System of the New York Subway.
The Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Subway is the only major line in the INDsystem that is almost entirely a two-tracked subway and only the second such line in the entire system like this (The 14th St.-Eastern District (Canarsie) Local (L) is the only other line of this type.
Proposed for the SecondSystem, it was to compete with the 2nd and 3rd Avenue elevated trains.
In June, 1940, the transportation assets of the former BMT and IRTsystems were taken over the City of New York and operated by the City's Board of Transportation, which already operated the INDsystem.
The entire original INDsystem, as built, was entirely underground in the four boroughs that it served, with the exception of a section of track containing two stations spanning the Gowanus Canal in the Red Hook/South Brooklyn section of Brooklyn.
First of all, the subway system began at a time when Thomas Edison and his opponents in the electricity industry were trying to decide whether or to accept alternating current or, as Edison wanted, direct current as the standard way to deliver electricity.
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