Highlights Of The Subway Routes

[EE Broadway Local]

AIM: A fun thread to list facts about New York City's subway routes that will give visitors to this thread an idea of each subway route.

 

Both current and former subway routes (if you know about a former subway route) are welcome.

 

I'd like to start with:

 

Line:

 

* Runs: Jamaica Center (Parsons/Archer) To World Trade Center

All Times (Local in Queens Late Nights and serves 75th Avenue and Briarwood-Van Wyck Evenings and Weekends); Rush Hours Some special trains run to Jamaica-179th Street.

 

* Serves Sixth Avenue, Eighth Avenue and 53d Street in Manhattan; Broadway, Queens Boulevard and Archer Avenue in Queens.

 

* Connections: Holland Tunnel at Canal Street-Holland Tunnel: Penn Station at 34th Street-Pennsylvania Station; PABT at 42d Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal; LIRR and Airtrain at Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue-JFK Airport.

 

* 1967-1978 Color: 70(E); 1979- Color:

 

* Route: Underground

 

The Train is an IND. subway line that debuted on August 19, 1933. The is also known as the Queens-Manhattan Express and the Eighth Avenue Local. Since December 11, 1988, the has run to Jamaica Center.

 

Presently, R160A-2 and R160B cars operate on the . These replaced the R32 Brightliners which had served the line since 1977.

 

The is a nice way to reach Greenwich Village (West Fourth Street-Washington Square); Chelsea Piers (14th Street or 23d Street) and the 53d Street area of Midtown (Seventh, Fifth and Lexington Avenues) in Manhattan and Forest Hills and Kew Gardens (Forest Hills-71st Avenue; Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike) in Queens.

 

Fun Fact: The once was the longest subway line in New York City. When trains ran from 179th Street to Beach 116th Street (1963-Friday August 27, 1976) during rush hours, the run was approximately thirty-five miles.

[Fresh Pond]

I'll give a crack at it...

 

line

 

-14 St-Canarsie Local

-goes through southern Midtown, Chelsea, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Brownsville, & Canarsie

-one of the quickest ways to reach Midtown

-Only 2 tracks the entire trip so there's no express

-Underground from 8 Av to Halsey St. Southbound trains are elevated at Wilson Av. Underground at Bushwick Av, elevated from Broadway Jct to New Lots av, then grade seperated at East 105 St & Rockaway Pky

-One of 2 lines that dont share track with another line (the other being the )

- the original letter was the but that was dropped in the 80's cuz of the elimination of double letters

-Before being called the , it was given the number 16

-The original terminal was 6 Av, but in 1931, it ws extended to 8 Av for anticipation of the opening of the new IND subway (today's lines)

-The is capable of driving itself cuz of ATO (automatic train operation) and is the only line to do so

-the backbone fleet of the is the R143, but there are a few R160A-1 cars on that line

 

 

 

Fun Facts

-Even though the only serves Manhattan & Brooklyn, it goes through Queens (under the cemetary) and some of the Halsey St station is within Queens

-Its southern terminal (Canarsie-Rockaway Pky) is one of 4 stations to be on ground level. the others are Rockaway Pk on the , Metropolitan Av on the (M2) & Wilson Av also on the

-If you look at the Wilson Av station, the northbound side is actually at ground level while the southbound side is stacked above it

-The is the only line so far to have message bords at all stations that tell you when the next train and the one behind it is comming. At Myrtle-Wyckoff, there's this screen that shows you where every single train is and how far away it is from you.

[NX Express]

Line

Existed between 1967 and 1968.

 

Was formed as part of the B Division route restructuring after the Chrystie Street Connection opened.

 

Was eliminated due to congestion: (credit to nycsubway.org)

It was discontinued in 1968 because of lack of ridership, probably because it wasn't as fast as one might have thought. North of Stillwell Avenue station, a two-track bridge hopped over Coney Island Creek and was used by West End, regular Sea Beach, and yard trains. This was a major point of congestion on the line. In the 1970s a separate creek crossing, about 20m east of the original one, was built to segregate West End trains from the Sea Beach trains but it was too late for the NX.

Ran from Brighton Beach to Coney Island, then non-stop to 59 Street (Brooklyn), and then made some express stops to Manhattan.

 

Express tracks were completely rebuilt in anticipation for this service.

 

Operated with a light-blue bullet.

 

Here is a picture of it at W8 Street:

[Kingsbridge Bus]

_1987-2005

 

A division

 

Ran between South Ferry & Van Cortland Park 242st Rush Hours only

Was replaced by train all other times

Used R62A Subway cars.

Ran the entire line skipping 157st, Dykman st, 215st, & 238st.

Was discontinued May 2005 because skip stop area was becoming more popular.

Is replaced by train full time

[LRG]

Lemme try...the Staten Island Railway!

 

*Runs between Saint George (Bay Street and Richmond Terrace) and Tottenville (Bentley Street and Arthur Kill Road)

 

* Only existing line in service is the Main South Shore Line, as well as a small segment of the abandoned North Shore Line for Richmond County Bank Ballpark games

 

* Opened in 1860.

 

* Route is mostly open-cut, with grade-level and embankment sections and an underground section between St. George and Tompkinsville.

 

* Fares are collected at the St. George and Tompkinsville stations only, both exiting and entering.

 

* Buses that cross the Staten Island Railway encode an additional transfer into your MetroCard (e.g. S46-S53- train on one fare).

 

Fun Fact: The SIR was previously owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad until the 1970s when the MTA took over operations.

[MTR Admiralty]

A mod should sticky this

 

I'll do something easy for now:

42nd Street Shuttle - created in 1918. Infrastructure was in place since 1904. Its creation was part of the H system, that extended two north-south branches of the Original System north on Lexington Ave and south onto 7th Avenue. The shuttle line was used to shuttle passengers between the West and East Side Lines.

[EE Broadway Local]

(Officially ) Rockaway Park Shuttle

 

* Runs Broad Channel to Beach 116th Street-Rockaway Park At All Times.

 

* Serves the Rockaway Freeway to Beach 105th Street-Seaside.

 

* Connects with the at Broad Channel for service to Far Rockaway, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.

 

* 1970's color was a red then . Today officially .

 

* Stations: Broad Channel; Beach 90th Street-Holland; Beach 98th Street-Playland; Beach 105th Street-Seaside and Beach 116th Street-Rockaway Park.

 

The Rockaway Branch opened on June 28, 1956 after the New York City Transit Authority (TA) had purchased the line from the LIRR and converted it to subway use. During the conversion, Westinghouse Electric Corporation went on strike on October 16, 1955 and the strike lasted 156 days. Though Westinghouse informed the TA that the power equipment would now not be ready until at least the second week of October 1956, Mr. Patterson and his staff came up with a workable plan that met the June 28th deadline. Some equipmet from the I.R.T.'s Dyre Avenue Line was borrowed and Aqueduct substation was skeletonized, and arrangements were made to buy other power. Originally, the Rockaway park service didn't have an officially assigned letter code. Trains sometimes displayed A and sometimes displayed E. On February 1, 1962, HH became the officially assigned letter. From November 26, 1967 until September 10, 1972 the was shown in a red bullet. From September 11, 1972 until Sunday August 29, 1976, the designation was 70(E) and during rush hours trains ran to Jamaica-179th Street. From Monday August 30, 1976 to the end of double letters, the designation was 70(CC) and during rush hours trains ran to Bedford Park Boulevard. In 1979 CC changed from green to a blue bullet.

 

With the ending of double letters, the Rockaway Shuttle became the and during rush hours, trains from Bedford Park Boulevard served Rockaway Park. In 1993, the Rockaway Park Shuttle took its' current form and served by the at all times. During rush hours, special trains provide additional service to Brooklyn and Manhattan during A.M. and to Rockaway Park during P.M..

 

Fun Fact: The Rockaways once were served at night by one train. The Rockaway Round Robin started at Beach 116th Street-Rockaway Park, use the short connector at Hammel's Wye to travel to Mott Avenue-Far Rockaway. The train would then travel to Broad Channel and Euclid Avenue and return to Beach 116th Street- Rockaway Park.

 

Until fare went to 50 cents 1975, riders paid a double fare. A rider would deposit a token in the turnstile to enter the subway north of Broad Channel then upon exiting at their station south of Broad Channel would deposit a second token into a turnstile. Upon entry at their station in the Rockaways, two tokens had to be deposited. This was applicable north of Broad Channel only; within the Rockaways, fare was a single token.

[67thAve]

Broadway Local

- Longest local in system

- Longest completly underground line

- Gives enough time to get a good rest and read the whole Sunday New York Times from either termini to Herald Sq.

[MTR Admiralty]

Broadway Local

- Longest local in system

- Longest completly underground line

- Gives enough time to get a good rest and read the whole Sunday New York Times from either termini to Herald Sq.

It also passes over the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch while below-grade. That's an important feature.

[EE Broadway Local]

Broadway Local

- Longest local in system

- Longest completly underground line

- Gives enough time to get a good rest and read the whole Sunday New York Times from either termini to Herald Sq.

 

* Runs Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Bay Ridge-95th Street All Times except late nights. (Late Nights runs Sunset Park-36th Street to Bay Ridge-95th Street).

 

* 1967-1978 color: 70(RR); 1979-1984 was yellow; 1985- color:

[MTR Admiralty]

* Runs Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Bay Ridge-95th Street All Times except late nights. (Late Nights runs Sunset Park-36th Street to Bay Ridge-95th Street).

 

* 1967-1978 color: 70(RR); 1979-1984 was yellow; 1985- color:

Which reminds me, the went to Astoria until the mid 80s

[MattTrain]

I'll try this one the .

 

is the current Broadway Express from 57th Street-Coney Island.

 

From 1988-2001 however, due to the South tracks being repaired in the Manhattan Bridge, the became (Q6).

 

The R68/As on the (Q6) mostly had .

 

From 2001-2004 two services existed with Brighton Local and Brighton Express. ran express between

57-Canal Streets then via bridge to and from Coney Island. ( terminated at Brighton Beach)

 

2004-today discontinued, replaced by ( in Brooklyn and in Manhattan. remains today.

[KeystoneRegional]

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[rockdove]

-Queensboro Plaza being... the only station with across-the-platform access to another line,

 

What about 53rd St 7th Ave?

[EE Broadway Local]

What about 53rd St 7th Ave?

rockdove: Megabus meant Queensborough Plaza is the only station with an across the platform transfer between the I.R.T. and the B.M.T. . Seventh Avenue-53d Street is IND. <-> (.

[KeystoneRegional]

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[GojiMet86]

Line

 

• Runs from Astoria - Ditmars Boulevard to Coney Island - Stillwell Avenue.
  
• Runs express between 34 St./Herald Square, 14 St./Union Square, Canal Street, Atlantic Avenue - Pacific Street, 59 Street, and 36 Street.
  
• Used to run to 57 Street/ 7 Avenue, then it was extended to Forest Hills/ 71 Avenue. After, it changed to Astoria - Ditmars Boulevard.
  
• Runs local midnights, via Lower Manhattan.
  
• Runs through a former railroad line (New York & Sea Beach).
  
• Has a railroad running on top of Astoria - Ditmars Boulevard (NYCR).
  
• Had a variant, the NX, that ran from 57 Street/7 Avenue to Coney Island - Stillwell Avenue. It ran entirely express, even on the Sea Beach Portion.
  
• My all - time favorite line.
  

 

[Donald]

The

 

Longest line in the entire system

Longest distance between 2 stations (Howard Beach - Broad Channel)

Has 3 terminals

[Joe]

The has 3 southern terminals.

[MattTrain]

The has 3 southern terminals.

 

During Rush hours that is.

[Donald]

The

 

Has the highest station in the system

Has the deepest station in the system

Is a local AND an express

The only train to service Roosevelt Island

[Joe]

The deepest station in the system is either 181 or 191 on the ...

[Melvin]

The deepest station in the system is either 181 or 191 on the ...

 

It is 191st.

[SubwayGuy]

The deepest station in the system is either 181 or 191 on the ...

 

It's 191. Pretty darn close to 200 ft below surface.

[Donald]

I always thought it was Roosevelt Island.