Google street maps11/11/2023 : 47 Community leaders advocated for more Dual Contracts lines to be built in Queens to allow development there. When the majority of the line was built in the early 1910s, most of the route went through undeveloped land, and Roosevelt Avenue had not been constructed. ![]() The IRT Flushing Line was to be one of two Dual Contracts lines in the borough, along with the Astoria Line it would connect Flushing and Long Island City, two of Queens' oldest settlements, to Manhattan via the Steinway Tunnel. Queens did not receive many new IRT and BRT lines compared to Brooklyn and the Bronx, since the city's Public Service Commission (PSC) wanted to alleviate subway crowding in the other two boroughs first before building in Queens, which was relatively undeveloped. ![]() ![]() The 1913 Dual Contracts called for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT later Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, or BMT) to build new lines in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. The eastern end of the IRT Flushing Line station, at 75th Street and Roosevelt Avenue
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