60th Street Tunnel Connection - Definition and Overview

The 60th Street Tunnel Connection (also known as the 11th Street Connector[1] (http://www.nycsubway.org/faq/oldlines.html)) is a short connecting line of the New York City Subway System connecting the BMT 60th Street Tunnel under the East River (which connects to the Broadway-BMT Line) with the IND Queens Boulevard Line west of the Queens Plaza station in Long Island City. The connector does not have any stations.

The connection opened on December 1, 1955 and permitted BMT trains from Brooklyn to use the IND's Queens Boulevard Line; the first service to do so was the Brighton Beach Local. Unlike the later Chrystie Street Connection, this was of the nature of a trackage rights operation, without the mixing of BMT and IND equipment or crews, as opposed to a true operating integration.

The connection now carries trains of the R service.