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    It is hard to believe that New York City’s comprehensive (and complicated) subway system all started with a single train line called the Interborough Rapid Transit, or IRT, which began operation on October 27, 1904. The subway did not look the same then as it does today, but by 1935, subway trains were a plush (and cheap) alternative to taking a cab. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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It is hard to believe that New York City’s comprehensive (and complicated) subway system all started with a single train line called the Interborough Rapid Transit, or IRT, which began operation on October 27, 1904. The subway did not look the same then as it does today, but by 1935, subway trains were a plush (and cheap) alternative to taking a cab. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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