Editing IRT Ninth Avenue Line

The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, was the first elevated railway in New York City. It opened in July 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, as an experimental single-track cable-powered elevated railway from Battery Place, at the south end of Manhattan Island, northward up Greenwich Street to Cortlandt Street. By 1879 the line was extended to the Harlem River at 155th Street. It was electrified and taken over by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in 1903.
==Station listing==
{|class="wikitable"
!Station
!Tracks
!Opening date
!Closing date
!Transfers and notes
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|[[Anderson–Jerome Avenues station|Anderson–Jerome Avenues]]
|Express
|July 1, 1918
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|[[Sedgwick Avenue station|Sedgwick Avenue]]
|Express
|July 1, 1918
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|Transfer point with New York Central Railroad's Putnam Division
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|[[155th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|155th Street]]
|Express
|December 1, 1879
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|Built next to NYC Putnam Division southern terminus, former transfer point until Putnam Division service to Manhattan ended in 1918
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|[[151st Street station|151st Street]]
|Local
|November 15, 1917
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|[[145th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|145th Street]]
|Express
|December 1, 1879
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|[[140th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|140th Street]]
|Local
|September 27, 1879
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|[[135th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|135th Street]]
|Local
|September 27, 1879
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|[[130th Street station|130th Street]]
|Local
|September 27, 1879
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|[[125th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|125th Street]]
|Express
|September 17, 1879
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|[[116th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|116th Street]]
|Express
|September 17, 1879
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|[[110th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|110th Street]]
|Local
|June 3, 1903
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|[[104th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|104th Street]]
|Local
|June 21, 1879
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|[[99th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|99th Street]]
|Local
|June 21, 1879
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|[[93rd Street station|93rd Street]]
|Local
|June 21, 1879
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|[[86th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|86th Street]]
|Local
|June 21, 1879
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|[[81st Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|81st Street]]
|Local
|June 9, 1879
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|[[72nd Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|72nd Street]]
|Local
|June 9, 1879
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|[[66th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|66th Street]]
|Express
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|[[59th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|59th Street]]
|Local
|June 9, 1879
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|Transfer to [[IRT Sixth Avenue Line|Sixth Avenue Elevated]]
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|55th Street
|Local
|January 18, 1876
|Before 1887
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|53rd Street
|Local
|June 2, 1878
|Before 1887
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|[[50th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|50th Street]]
|Local
|January 18, 1876
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|[[42nd Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|42nd Street]]
|Local
|November 6, 1875
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|[[34th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|34th Street]]
|Express
|July 30, 1873
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|[[30th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|30th Street]]
|Local
|December 13, 1873
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|29th Street
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|July 3, 1868
|1873
|Original northern terminus
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|[[23rd Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|23rd Street]]
|Local
|October 21, 1873
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|21st Street
|Local
|October 21, 1873
|Before 1887
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|[[14th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|14th Street]]
|Express
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|Little West 12th Street
|Local
|June 17, 1872
|1880?
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|Bethune Street
|Local
|November 5, 1875
|Before 1887
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|[[Christopher Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|Christopher Street]]
|Express
|November 3, 1873
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|[[Houston Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|Houston Street]]
|Local
|November 3, 1873
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|Watts Street
|Local
|May 6, 1872
|Before 1887
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|[[Desbrosses Street station|Desbrosses Street]]
|Express
|November 23, 1873
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|[[Franklin Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|Franklin Street]]
|Local
|January 21, 1873
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|[[Warren Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|Warren Street]]
|Express
|February 14, 1870
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|[[Barclay Street station|Barclay Street]]
|Local
|February 14, 1870
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|Dey Street
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|July 3, 1868
|1874
|Original southern terminus
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|[[Cortlandt Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|Cortlandt Street]]
|Express
|May 25, 1874
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|[[Rector Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)|Rector Street]]
|Local
|May 25, 1874
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|Morris Street
|Local
|August 15, 1872<br>April 15, 1877
|March 19, 1873<br>September 27, 1879
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|[[Battery Place station|Battery Place]]
|Express
|June 5, 1883
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|[[IRT Sixth Avenue Line|Sixth Avenue Line]]
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|[[South Ferry station (IRT elevated)|South Ferry]]
|Express
|nowrap|April 5, 1877
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|[[IRT Second Avenue Line|Second]], [[IRT Third Avenue Line|Third]] and [[IRT Sixth Avenue Line|Sixth Avenue]] Lines; various ferries
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