#TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1978, the JFK Express, known to many locally at its time as “The Train to The Plane,” began operation. The goal was to make it fast and easy to reach JFK Airport from Manhattan, and, later, Queens. The JFK Express used a route similar to today’s A train, though it ran on the Sixth Avenue line above West Fourth Street-Washington Square. “The Train to The Plane” slogan was a bit of a misnomer in that the JFK Express did not actually bring riders directly to JFK Airpo