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21st Street (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)
21st Street may refer to: * 21st Street (IND Crosstown Line) The 21st Street station (signed as 21st Street–Van Alst) is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 21st Street and Jackson Avenue in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, Qu ..., a station of the New York City Subway serving the train * 21st Street (Muni), a station on the San Francisco Municipal Railway light rail network's J Church line * 21st Street – Queensbridge (IND 63rd Street Line), a station of the New York City Subway serving the train {{road disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st Street (IND Crosstown Line)
The 21st Street station (signed as 21st Street–Van Alst) is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 21st Street and Jackson Avenue in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, Queens, it is served by the G train at all times. History 21st Street was part of the first phase of the IND Crosstown Line, with service south to Nassau Avenue in Brooklyn. The site of the station was excavated by April 1929. The station opened on August 19, 1933. The secondary name "Van Alst" refers to Van Alst Avenue, the former name of 21st Street. The patriarch of the Van Alst family was Belgian Dutch sailor Joris Stevensen, who settled in what was then New Amsterdam in 1652, and purchased land in Long Island City in 1670. Stevensen was known as "de Caper van Alst" (“the sailor from Aalst"), leading future members of the family to assume the surname "Van Alst". The family later constructed a private cemetery (now an empty lot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st Street (Muni)
Right Of Way/21st Street station is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro J Church line, located in the Dolores Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The stop, which opened with the line on August 11, 1917, is located on a short rail-only right of way that allows the line to avoid the steep hill on Church Street to the west. The stop has a pair of side platforms located south of 21st Street on a sharp curve. The stop is not accessible to people with disabilities. A shelter on the eastbound platform, a stucco structure with tile roof, was boarded up around 2010. In March 2014, Muni released details of the proposed implementation of their Transit Effectiveness Project (later rebranded MuniForward The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni), is the public transit system for the City and County of San Francisco. It operates a system of bus routes (including trolleybuses), the Muni Metro light rail system, three historic cable ...), which included a var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
