Interborough Rapid Transit Company

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Interborough_Rapid_Transit_Company

GPTKB entity

Statements (79)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:transportation defunct company
gptkbp:abbreviation	gptkb:IRT
gptkbp:acquiredBy	gptkb:City_of_New_York
gptkbp:businessModel	rapid transit
gptkbp:ceased_operations	June 12, 1940
gptkbp:country	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dissolved	1940
gptkbp:founded	1902
gptkbp:founder	gptkb:August_Belmont_Jr.
gptkbp:headquarters_location	gptkb:New_York_City
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Interborough Rapid Transit Company
gptkbp:industry	gptkb:transportation
gptkbp:legacy	gptkb:IRT_division_of_NYC_Subway
gptkbp:location	gptkb:New_York_City
gptkbp:notable_executive	gptkb:E.H._Harriman gptkb:William_K._Vanderbilt gptkb:Charles_T._Barney gptkb:Andrew_Carnegie gptkb:J.P._Morgan gptkb:John_D._Rockefeller gptkb:John_D._Rockefeller_Jr. gptkb:William_Barclay_Parsons gptkb:James_J._Hill gptkb:Charles_S._Mellen gptkb:Daniel_G._Reid gptkb:Frank_Hedley gptkb:George_Gould gptkb:Isaac_N._Seligman gptkb:John_B._McDonald gptkb:Otto_H._Kahn gptkb:Samuel_Rea gptkb:Thomas_E._Murray gptkb:Cornelius_Vanderbilt_III gptkb:Edward_H._Harriman gptkb:George_F._Baker gptkb:William_Rockefeller gptkb:William_H._Vanderbilt gptkb:Charles_M._Schwab gptkb:Henry_Clay_Frick gptkb:Samuel_Insull gptkb:William_Gibbs_McAdoo gptkb:William_Nelson_Cromwell gptkb:William_H._Moore gptkb:Jacob_Schiff gptkb:Henry_H._Rogers gptkb:James_Stillman gptkb:William_C._Whitney gptkb:August_Belmont_Jr.
gptkbp:notableEvent	First subway opened 1904
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:IRT_42nd_Street_Shuttle gptkb:IRT_Broadway–Seventh_Avenue_Line gptkb:IRT_Flushing_Line gptkb:IRT_Lexington_Avenue_Line gptkb:IRT_Dyre_Avenue_Line gptkb:IRT_Eastern_Parkway_Line gptkb:IRT_Elevated_Lines gptkb:IRT_Lenox_Avenue_Line gptkb:IRT_New_Lots_Line gptkb:IRT_Ninth_Avenue_Line gptkb:IRT_Pelham_Line gptkb:IRT_Second_Avenue_Line gptkb:IRT_Sixth_Avenue_Line gptkb:IRT_Third_Avenue_Line gptkb:IRT_Jerome_Avenue_Line gptkb:IRT_White_Plains_Road_Line gptkb:IRT_Nostrand_Avenue_Line
gptkbp:notableProject	First subway line in New York City
gptkbp:operates	gptkb:New_York_City_Subway elevated railways
gptkbp:parentOrganization	gptkb:Interborough_Metropolitan_Company
gptkbp:servesArea	gptkb:Brooklyn gptkb:Manhattan gptkb:Queens gptkb:The_Bronx
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:New_York_City_Board_of_Transportation
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:New_York_City_Subway gptkb:City_Hall_Station
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5