Seventh Avenue Line (Manhattan surface)
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The Seventh Avenue Line is a surface public transit line in Manhattan, New York City, United States, connecting
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with Central Park along Seventh Avenue. Once a streetcar line, it is now part of the southbound direction of the M10 and M20 bus routes.


History

The
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was chartered by the New York State Legislature in April 1860; the authorized system consisted of two main lines - the Seventh Avenue Line and Broadway Line - connecting Broadway near
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with Central Park. The Seventh Avenue Line began at Seventh Avenue and 59th Street and proceeded in a general southerly direction through Seventh Avenue, Greenwich Avenue, Eighth Street, MacDougal Street, Fourth Street, Thompson Street, Canal Street, and
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, with a one-way pair of single tracks in West Broadway and Barclay Street in one direction and Chambers Street and Church Street in the other, and ending in a double track on the block of Barclay Street between Church Street and Broadway. Branches along three other streets -
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, and Park Place - to Broadway were also authorized, and the Broadway Line shared the route north of Times Square and south of Barclay Street (in one direction on Church Street) and Canal Street (in the other direction on West Broadway). The company was incorporated on May 26, 1864,Harry James Carman
The Street Surface Railway Franchises of New York City
pages 119 to 121
and opened the Seventh Avenue Line by the end of 1865. An 1866 law required the company to replace its double track in Fourth and Thompson Streets with a one-way pair, the other direction using
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and Sullivan Streets between MacDougal and Canal Streets.Chapter 500, An Act to change the route of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company in the city of New York, reproduced i
A Compilation of the Existing Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants Made by the Corporation of the City of New York
1866, pages 412 to 413
Since the block of MacDougal Street between Third and Fourth Streets was already used northbound by the
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, and the Seventh Avenue cars used that track via trackage rights, a law was passed in 1867 requiring the Seventh Avenue cars to travel in the same direction, with northbound cars in Sullivan Street, a block west of southbound cars in Thompson Street.


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