![]() ![]() Similar construction, on a smaller scale, went on in Brooklyn, Buffalo and other urban areas. The Manhattan and Bronx parts of the underground system are owned by the Empire City Subway Company subsidiary. The largest of these was also the corporate headquarters, at 140 West Street on the Lower West Side, about a half mile from AT&T headquarters at 195 Broadway. At each wire center a new central office arose to house telephone switchboards, panel switches and other inside plant, along with technicians, clerks, operators, and other workers. The locations were one to two miles apart, close to concentrations of office workers while avoiding high prices for land. They converged at approximately twenty wire centers, which were connected by larger trunk cable ducts running along the East and West Sides of Manhattan. New cable ducts brought more reliable service to customers. The company went underground in the 1920s, creating expensive new outside plant that fixed its geometry for the century to come. ( July 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įxchange locations, 1934 Typical central office at 228 East 56th Street Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) eventually acquired a controlling interest and restored the New York Telephone name. The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, a Bell licensee serving Long Island and Staten Island, was broken up and its New York properties merged with the New York company as the City and Suburban Telephone Company in 1897. New York and New Jersey Telephone Company building In 1896 the operations of Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Westchester Telephone Company (which served northern suburban areas, including parts of then- Westchester County which subsequently were incorporated into New York City as the borough of the Bronx) were consolidated under the name of the New York Telephone Company. ![]() The merged local company was called the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company. Under the November 1879 settlement of the Elisha Gray patent infringement lawsuit, Western Union handed over its telephone operations to National Bell Telephone, which then renamed itself American Bell Telephone. Western Union subsidiaries, including Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph, Gold and Stock Telegraph, and American Speaking Telephone, based their New York and San Francisco operations on the telephone exchange principle and thus were larger and more advanced than the local Bell operations. Manufacturers of steel wire for the Brooklyn Bridge then under construction were especially prominent among the customers under this scheme, using their own product. Such connections already existed for private telegraphs, and the new invention promised to save the cost of hiring a private telegraph operator. Its purpose was to rent telephone instruments to users, who were expected to provide wires to connect them, for example from factory to office. The Telephone Company of New York was formed under franchise in 1876. The New York Telephone Company (NYTel) was organized in 1896, taking over the New York City operations of the American Bell Telephone Company. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. ![]() This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. ![]()
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