One of the earliest subway "stations" in Brooklyn created by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
With a growing city like NY, horses and railroads just weren’t enough to keep up with the mass number of commuters traveling back and forth from their homes to their workplace. The subways allowed people to travel long distances from their homes to their workplaces and also unified the boroughs by connecting them through this underground system. People sought to live in places other that Manhattan which also gave real estate brokers more profits from selling houses in the outer boroughs. The elites who came up with the first “subway” system thought of it as a way to make a profit and it eventually became a partnership with the “el” system.
This system of transportation was not only fast for the bustling city, but reliable as well. The IRT Company made a huge profit and joined the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company which added 190 miles in addition to the original subway and transported about 600,000 people around the boroughs. This was an extremely efficient mode of transportation as well as a way of “decentralizing” the clogged city.