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Encyclopedia > Nassau Street Line
Image:NYCS J.gif Image:NYCS M.gif Image:NYCS Z.gif
Services that use the BMT Nassau Street Line through downtown have been colored brown since 1979.

The Nassau Street Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT Division of the New York City Subway system. Trains of the Z serve the express run and the J and mid-day M lines the local. Trains using this mainline are assigned the color brown. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Subway redirects here; for the restaurant named Subway, see Subway (restaurant). ... A 1914 map showing what was at the time the proposed expansion for the BRT. The only major differences from what was built is that a new 60th Street Tunnel was used rather than the Queensboro Bridge, the Manhattan-side Brooklyn Bridge connection was never built, and several lines ended... South Ferry station 125th Street station The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system in New York City, New York, United States. ...


The line starts in Manhattan and emerges to cross the Williamsburg Bridge and becomes the Jamaica Line. Fireworks on opening night, 1903. ... The Jamaica Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT Division of the New York Subway. ...

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New York City Subway Lines
IRT West side trunk: Broadway-7 Av - Lenox Av - White Plains Rd - Dyre Av - Brooklyn Branch
East side trunk: Lexington Av - Jerome Av - White Plains Rd - Dyre Av - Pelham
Brooklyn/Queens/other: Eastern Pkwy - Nostrand Av - Flushing - 42 St Shuttle
Former: 2 Av - 3 Av - 6 Av - 9 Av
BMT Manhattan trunk: Broadway - Astoria - Manhattan Bridge
Nassau Street trunk: Nassau St - Jamaica - Archer Av - Myrtle Av
West Brooklyn trunks: 4th Av - Brighton - Culver - Sea Beach - West End
Other: Canarsie - Franklin Av Shuttle - 63 St
Former: Brooklyn Bridge - 3 Av - 5 Av - Fulton St - Lexington Av
IND Bronx/Manhattan trunks: 6 Av - 8 Av - Concourse
Brooklyn/Queens: Queens Blvd - Archer Av - 63 St - Fulton St - Culver - Rockaway - Crosstown
Former: World's Fair
Connections Chrystie St - 60 St

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History of the Band (481 words)
Nassau County is located on Long Island, NY and is comprised of nine battalions made up of seventy-two fire departments.
Renamed the Nassau County Firefighter's Emerald Society Pipes and Drums, and keeping the name Fir Na Tine proudly displayed on the band patch, today's band membership is 50% volunteer firefighters and the rest is family and friends of the volunteer fire service.
In 2003, the association with the Emerald Society was formally dissolved and the band reformed as the Nassau County Firefighter's Pipes and Drums.
The Guardian's Lifestyles News (2716 words)
He described the town as having "but one tolerably regular street, or line of houses, which runs next to the water." This main road (Bay Street) was unpaved, streets though were cut down to the island's native rock.
Nassau recovered slowly and by 1880 could be described as 'a nice-looking' town with 'nice wide' and clean streets 'shaded with cork and almond trees.' The town benefited from the development of local industries especially the sponge, pineapple and sisal industries during the late nineteenth century.
Nassau which was once a 'quiet sleepy hollow sort of place' had become a rapidly expanding city, hectic, bustling and sometimes noisy.
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