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- When the subway opened in 1904, it launched an unprecedented
era of growth and prosperity for the newly unified New York City.
- Nearly 100 years later, the city's reliance on its
rapid transit system has not diminished.
- NYC Transit keeps New York moving 24 hours a day,
seven days a week, as its subways speed through underground tunnels
and elevated structures in the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens,
and the Bronx.
- In Staten Island, NYC Transit's Staten Island Railway
links 22 communities.
- NYC Transit's buses run in all five boroughs, on more
than 200 local and 30 express routes.
- They account for 80 percent of the city's surface
mass transportation.
- All NYC Transit's buses and subway stations accept
the MetroCard, the MTA's automated fare collection medium.
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