[DOC] [TLE] The House of Mirth [PAR] 1908 Jan 21, New York City's Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance that ... 
1900 Mar 24, Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke ground for the New York 
subway tunnel that would ... 1902 William Randolph Hearst served 2 terms as 
Congressman for the 11th ... 1904 Aug 16, NYC began building the Grand 
Central Station. [DOC] [TLE] New York City 1900-1949 - Timelines of History [PAR] 1900 Mar 24, Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke ground for the New York 
subway tunnel that would .... 1902-1945 Nicholas Murray Butler served as 
president of Columbia Univ. ... 1904 Aug 16, NYC began building the Grand 
Central Station. [DOC] [TLE] www.nycsubway.org: History of the Independent Subway [PAR] Without fanfare, or any major city ceremony, the Independent City Owned Rapid 
... A Staten Island subway tunnel; Extending the BMT Broadway Line from 57th .... 
line serving the Bronx running under the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, ..... as 
the "Van Wyck stub"), this would have run as subway to about 166th Avenue,... [DOC] [TLE] www.nycsubway.org: The New York Transit Authority in the 1970s [PAR] It would seem, looking back, that the New York City Transit Authority didn't have 
.... A new subway line would diverge from the IND Queens Blvd. Line at the Van 
Wyck stub ... Access to Grand Central Terminal would be provided through a new 
north ... 1972, when both the mayor and governor broke ground for the new line 
at... [DOC] [TLE] Audubon Park: 157th Street Subway Station [PAR] Excavations for the first New York Subway tunnel began May 14, 1900 at the ... of 
express trains on Sundays only, but regular service to the 157th Street station 
began .... during a Washington Heights ground-breaking, and not at the official 
City ... saluted Corporate Counsel Whalen with Hail to the Chief, Mayor Van 
Wyck,... [DOC] [TLE] The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt ... [PAR] Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city ... ... Robert A. Van Wyck, the first 
mayor of the Greater City of New York, broke ground for the first subway line, 
near ... The neighborhoods in Queens served by the Flushing line show the 
impact ... the Sunnyside Yards in Queens to a new station built at Grand Central 
Terminal. [DOC] [TLE] Today the few operable survivors serve the tourist rather ... [PAR] In New York, the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), the city's first subway and the 
first ... As early as 1870, Alfred Ely Beach built an experimental oneblock tunnel 
under ... financier August Belmont and Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck broke ground 
at ... from City Hall, then up the East Side of Manhattan to Grand Central Terminal
. [DOC] [TLE] This Day in History: Oct. 27, 1904 | Lionel Tracks [PAR] Oct 27, 2016 ... New York City Subway opens to the public ... The solution would be to put a train 
system under ground. ... It was Sunday, March 25, 1900, when Mayor Robert Van 
Wyck lifted the first ... They forgave the temporary blemish of their beloved Central 
Park as the crews dynamited bedrock to make the tunnel. [DOC] [TLE] Van Wyck Expressway - NYC Parks & Recreation [PAR] The Van Wyck Expressway, named for former Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck ... it 
twists through the terminal nucleus and turns into the JFK Expressway. ... On 
March 24 1900, Mayor Van Wyck broke ground in front of City Hall for the City's 
first subway, ... the City obtained another tract of land between the Grand Central 
Parkway... [DOC] [TLE] Robert Anderson Van Wyck - Wikipedia [PAR] Robert Anderson Van Wyck was the first mayor of New York City after the 
consolidation of the ... He served as mayor of New York City between 1898 and 
1901, as the first mayor ... and provided for the construction of the proposed 
Brooklyn Tunnel. ... The Jamaica  Van Wyck station of the New York City 
Subway in Queens... [DOC] [TLE] Cities & Urban Life | vanshnookenraggen | Page 9 [PAR] Mar 25, 2010 ... So in 1929 the

Question: Mayor Van Wyck broke ground for a tunnel to Grand Central Terminal for a subway serving this city
Answer: New York City