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•east. This branch is also used by the residents of Yonkers and 

 the suburbs. 



Jerome Avenue will be equipped with three extensions of the 

 Manhattan Elevated and Subway Systems. Under the hill just 

 south of Highbridge, on the banks of the Harlem River, a tunnel 

 will be bored to Jerome Avenue for the extensions of the Sixth 

 and Ninth Avenue Elevated Lines. These lines will meet the 

 Lexington Avenue Subway extension and all three will use the 

 elevated structure up Jerome Avenue to Woodlawn. 



At present the residents of the Williamsbridge, Wakefield, 

 Bronxwood Park, Westchester and other northern districts of The 

 Bronx, reach the West Farms terminal of the subway by trolley. 

 To eliminate the double fare and to provide better facilities for 

 the residents, the subway will be extended up White Plains Avenue 

 to Williamsbridge. 



The new Broadway-Lexington Subway will aid materially the 

 development of The Bronx. Ground was broken in Manhattan 

 in November, 1911, and in The Bronx at Mott Avenue north of 

 East One Hundred Thirty-eighth Street, on December 7, 1911. The 

 subway, it is expected, will be in operation in three years. It is 

 to be built jointly by the City of New York and the Interborough 

 Rapid Transit Company, and is to be equipped by the company. 



The line will start in lower Broadway and at Forty-second 

 Street it will swing into Lexington Avenue to East One Hundred 

 Thirty-fifth Street, The Bronx. At this point it will divide into 

 two branches : the River and Jerome Avenue branch and the South- 

 ern Boulevard and Westchester Avenue branch. The River and 

 Jerome Avenue line will be underground as far as River Avenue 

 and East One Hundred Fifty-seventh Street, from which point it 

 will be elevated to Woodlawn Road. The Southern Boulevard 

 and Westchester Avenue line will remain underground as far as 

 Whitlock Avenue south of Westchester Avenue, thence elevated to 

 Pelham Bay Park. 



