![]() It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. In 2000, Atlanta Braves baseball pitcher John Rocker was quoted by Sports Illustrated to have said: It was chosen as a representative of the immigrant experience, and because the approximate path of the Flushing Line has been in continuous use as a transportation route since the 17th century. ![]() In 1999, the 69th Street Line was designated a National Millennium Trail (along with the Appalachian Trail and 14 others) by a joint program of the White House Millennium Council, the United States Department of Transportation, and the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. The line also serves Little India in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights and the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City. It is also famous for being the official train of the New York Mets and the US Open ( tennis) as both are located at Willets Point–Shea Stadium station, which serves Shea Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium and Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. It is now nicknamed the "International Express" because of the diversity of the population of the communities it serves. The line's Flushing terminus in large Chinatown and Koreatown areas has, at one time, earned it the nickname of the Orient Express, after the famed Paris-Istanbul train. The 8 mile (12.9 km) line runs through some of the most ethnically diverse areas in the world. 4.2 Service curtailments in the 1940s & 50sĭiverse ridership and national recognition.4.1 Rolling stock on the line for World's Fairs.1 Diverse ridership and national recognition.Some express trains run especially for New York Mets and U.S. Express trains run to Manhattan from 06:30 to 12:30 and from Manhattan from 12:30 to 22:00. Prior to the discontinuance of BMT services in 1949, the portion of the IRT Flushing Line between Times Square and Queensboro Plaza was known as the Queensboro Line. ![]() Before the line was opened all the way to Flushing, it was known as the Corona Line or Fisk Avenue and Corona Line. It runs from Flushing in Queens to Times Square in Manhattan, carrying trains of the 3 local service (as well as the express rush hours in the peak direction), and is assigned the color purple. The 69th Street Line is a rapid transit route of the New York City Subway system, operated as part of the IRT Division and designated the 3 route. The IRT Fluhing Line is used by the 7 and 7X As with Metro Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA). The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The original article was at IRT Flushing Line.
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