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34th Street – Penn Station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line was opened on June 3, 1917 as part of an extension of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the dominant subway in Manhattan at the time, from Times Square – 42nd Street to South Ferry. It was served by a shuttle train to Times Square until the rest of the extension opened a year later on July 1, 1918. This meant that the subway would be expanded down the Lower West Side to neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village and the western portion of Lower Manhattan. As part of this and the northern IRT Lexington Avenue Line extension, the IRT network would be radically changed from an S-shaped line connecting the eastern side of Lower Manhattan to the Upper West Side to an H-shaped network with two parallel lines, the East and West Side Lines, and a shuttle at 42nd Street connecting them.

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