BMT 60th Street Tunnel Connection
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The 60th Street Tunnel Connection (also known as the 11th Street Connector[1] (http://www.nycsubway.org/faq/oldlines.html)) is a short connecting line of the New York City Subway System connecting the BMT 60th Street Tunnel under the East River (which connects to the BMT Broadway Line) with the IND Queens Boulevard Line west of Queens Plaza in Long Island City. The connector does not have any stations.
The connection opened on December 1, 1955 and permitted BMT trains from Brooklyn to use the IND Queens Boulevard Line; the first service to do so was the Brighton Beach Local (BMT 1, now Q). Unlike the later Chrystie Street Connection, this was of the nature of a trackage rights operation, without the mixing of BMT and IND equipment or crews, as opposed to a true operating integration.
The connection now carries trains of the R service at all times but late nights.
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| IRT | West side trunk: Broadway-7 Av - Lenox Av - White Plains Rd - Dyre Av - Brooklyn Branch East side trunk: Lexington Av - Jerome Av - White Plains Rd - Dyre Av - Pelham Brooklyn/Queens/other: Eastern Pkwy - Nostrand Av - Flushing - 42 St Shuttle Former: 2 Av - 3 Av - 6 Av - 9 Av |
| BMT | Manhattan trunk: Broadway - Astoria - Manhattan Bridge Nassau Street trunk: Nassau St - Jamaica - Archer Av - Myrtle Av West Brooklyn trunks: 4th Av - Brighton - Culver - Sea Beach - West End Other: Canarsie - Franklin Av Shuttle - 63 St Former: Brooklyn Bridge - 3 Av - 5 Av - Fulton St - Lexington Av |
| IND | Bronx/Manhattan trunks: 6 Av - 8 Av - Concourse Brooklyn/Queens: Queens Blvd - Archer Av - 63 St - Fulton St - Culver - Rockaway - Crosstown Former: World's Fair |
| Connections | Chrystie St - 60 St |
