Table 12.II.C

New York City (NYC)
Mass Transit

• 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.