IRT Flushing Line
route of the New York City subway system
The IRT Flushing Line is a rapid transit route of the New York City Subway system, named for its eastern terminal in Flushing, Queens. It is operated as part of the A Division. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), a private operator, had constructed the section of the line from Flushing, Queens, to Times Square, Manhattan between 1915 and 1928. A western extension was opened to Hudson Yards in western Manhattan in 2015, and the line now stretches from Flushing to Chelsea, Manhattan. It carries trains of the 7 local service, as well as the express <7> during rush hours in the peak direction. It is the only currently operational IRT line to serve Queens. The IRT Flushing Line has been isolated from the rest of the IRT System since June 13, 1942, when the IRT 2nd Avenue Line was closed and the track connection was destroyed. Today, for the purposes of car swapping if necessary, complicated non-revenue movements must be performed by utilizing the BMT track connection at Queensboro Plaza Station.
It is shown in the color purple on station signs, the official subway map, and internal route maps in R188 cars. Before the line was opened all the way to Flushing in 1928, it was known as the Corona Line or Woodside and Corona Line.
“IRT Flushing Line” enters the record as route of the New York City subway system. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Flushing, Line and route can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“IRT Flushing Line” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Flushing, Line and route provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2372361. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1915, 1928, 2015 and 1942.
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