New York City Subway stations
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City, New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Its operator is the New York City Transit Authority, which is itself controlled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. In 2015, an average of 5.65 million passengers used the system daily, making it the busiest rapid transit system in the United States and the seventh busiest in the world.
The present New York City Subway system is composed of three formerly separate systems that merged in 1940: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, and the Independent Subway System. The privately held IRT, founded in 1902, constructed and operated the first underground railway line in New York City. The opening of the first line on October 27, 1904, is commonly cited as the opening of the modern New York City Subway, although some elevated lines of the IRT and BMT that were initially incorporated into the New York City Subway system but then demolished predate this. The oldest sections of elevated lines still in operation were built in 1885. The BMT, founded in 1923 and also privately held, was formed from the bankruptcy of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. The IND was created by the City of New York in 1921 to be a municipally owned competitor of the two private companies. Unification in June 1940 by the New York City Board of Transportation brought the three systems under one operator. The New York City Transit Authority, created in 1953 to be a public benefit corporation that acquired the rapid transit and surface line infrastructure of the Board of Transportation, remains the operator of the New York City Subway today.
The official count of stations is ; however, this tabulation classifies some transfer stations as two or more stations, which are called "station complexes" within the nomenclature of the New York City Subway. If station complexes are counted as one station each, the number of stations is. Thirty-two such station complexes exist. The reason for the higher count generally lies in the history of the New York City Subway: IRT, BMT and IND stations are usually counted separately, particularly if their lines are not parallel and are adjacent to or on another level to each other. Regardless of how stations are counted, the New York City Subway has the largest number of rapid transit stations in the world.
There are numerous New York City Subway stations that are closed, many of which stem from the demolition of elevated lines once operated by the IRT and the BMT that were made largely but not completely redundant to underground lines subsequently constructed.
The newest New York City Subway stations are part of the Second Avenue Subway, and are located on Second Avenue at 72nd, 86th and 96th streets. They opened on January 1, 2017.
Stations that share identical street names are disambiguated by the line name and/or the cross street each is associated with. For example, "125th Street station" can refer to four separate stations: 125th Street on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, the IRT Lenox Avenue Line, and the IRT Lexington Avenue Line. This situation occurs numerous times.
Station facilities and amenities
Of the stations in the system, are served 24 hours a day. Underground stations in the New York City Subway are typically accessed by staircases going down from street level. Many of these staircases are painted in a common shade of green, with slight or significant variations in design. Other stations have unique entrances reflective of their location or date of construction. Several station entrance stairs, for example, are integrated into adjacent buildings. Nearly all station entrances feature color-coded globe or square lamps signifying their status as an entrance.Out of all the stations on the New York City Subway,
- 275 are fully underground
- 153 are elevated stations
- 29 are on an embankment
- 15 are open-cut stations
Entrances
Turnstiles and entrance gates
The New York City Subway primarily employs two types of turnstiles: a waist-high turnstile, and a full-height turnstile known as a High Entry-Exit Turnstile. The waist-high turnstiles, the most prominent in the system, were installed beginning in 1993 along with the implementation of MetroCard, though they originally accepted tokens. The newer HEETs resemble several older turnstiles of that design informally called "iron maidens", and are prevalent at subway entrances without token booths to discourage fare evasion. Both turnstiles are stainless steel and are bidirectional, allowing passengers to enter with fare payment and to exit. A third older type of turnstile, the High Exit Turnstile, is a black-painted unidirectional iron maiden and only turns in the exiting direction. Entrance is also available via Service Entry gates or AutoGates, which cater primarily to handicapped passengers or passengers with large items such as strollers and luggage. These gates double as pushbar Emergency Exits, though they are often used for regular exiting in crowded stations.Lamps
At most of the system's entrances and exits, there is a lamppost or two bearing a colored spherical or cube-shaped lamp. These lights roughly indicate the station's availability : green means a full-time entrance and booth, red means either a part-time booth or no booth, hence either exit-only or entrance with MetroCard. Older lamps are completely colored green or red, while newer ones, called "half-moons", have only the top half colored, while the bottom half is milky white; this is to provide more light, and the half-colored globes have the same meanings as the globes with full colors. There are also some square lamps.The meaning of the lights is poorly understood by passengers and was originally more complicated. Green, yellow, and red lights were introduced in the early 1980s to indicate the entrance's availability, mostly to prevent muggings by warning riders away from entrances that were closed at night. Originally, green signified an entrance located at a full-time station booth, which was open 24/7 and had regular waist-high turnstiles; yellow signified a part-time booth, to which access to the platforms could be gained using High Entry-Exit Turnstiles ; and red signified an exit-only. This proved too complicated and yellow was dropped in the early 1990s. Red globes now indicate both part-time entrance or exit-only; indeed, a joke when the system was introduced was that "green meant go in, red meant don't. And yellow meant to take a cab.".
Further, with the introduction of the MetroCard in 1994, the MTA converted many previous exit-only entrances to full-time entrances via HEETs. The introduction of half-colored globes further confused riders of the subway system, and as of a 2002 survey, the globe lamps are poorly understood.
Concourse
Many stations in the subway system have mezzanines. In underground stations, this typically consists of the first level below the street or the areas between the street and platform level. For open-cut, grade-level and elevated stations, prevalent in uptown Manhattan and the outer boroughs, the mezzanine area often consists of a station house at street level or above the street. Mezzanines allow for passengers to enter from multiple locations at an intersection and proceed to the correct platform without having to cross the street before entering. At busy intersections, they also act as a pedestrian underpass or overpass. They also allow for crossover between uptown and downtown trains on side platforms or a pair of island platforms, which is very useful when local tracks are closed for construction. Within the mezzanines are fare control areas, where passengers physically pay their fare to enter the subway system. In underground subway stations built close to ground level or under narrow streets, a characteristic of early IRT and BMT construction, the fare control area is at platform level with no mezzanine crossovers. Many elevated stations also have platform-level fare control with no common station house between directions of service.Upon entering a station, passengers may use station booths or vending machines to buy their fare, which is currently stored in a MetroCard. Each station has at least one booth, typically located at the busiest entrance. After swiping the card at a turnstile, customers enter the fare-controlled area of the station and continue to the platforms. Inside fare control are "Off-Hours Waiting Areas", which consist of benches and are identified by a yellow sign.
For various reasons, including maintenance costs, decreases in ridership, along with crime and safety issues, many stations have fare control areas, mezzanine areas and entrances that have been closed. Many mezzanines that previously stretched the entire length of a station have been split or partitioned by fencing or permanent walls. These closed areas have been abandoned or converted into space for Transit Operations or the New York City Police Department.
station at 59th Street–Columbus Circle
Facilities and amenities
Air conditioning
In August 2006, the MTA announced that all future subway stations, which include 34th Street–Hudson Yards, South Ferry, and all Second Avenue Subway stations, will have platforms outfitted with air-cooling systems. The existing Grand Central–42nd Street station also has these cooling systems; however, for the most part, subway stations lack air-cooling systems due to their expense, and only a few stations have ceiling fans.Artwork
Many stations are decorated with intricate ceramic tile work, some of it dating back to 1904 when the subway first opened. The subway tile artwork tradition continues in a Percent for Art program.The MTA Arts & Design program oversees art in the subway system. Permanent installations, such as sculpture, mosaics, and murals; photographs displayed in lightboxes encourage people to use mass transit. In addition, commissioned art displayed in stations and "art cards", some displaying poetry, are in many of the trains themselves in unused advertisement fixture slots. Some of the art is by internationally known artists such as Elizabeth Murray's Blooming, displayed at Lexington Avenue/59th Street station.
Accessibility
Since the majority of the system was built before 1990, the year the Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect, many New York City Subway stations were not designed to be handicapped-accessible. Since then, elevators have been built in newly constructed stations to comply with the ADA. In addition, the MTA identified "key stations", high-traffic and/or geographically important stations, which must conform to the ADA when they are extensively renovated. , out of total stations in the system, 119 are accessible; many of them have AutoGate access. Five stations on the Staten Island Railway are also accessible. Additionally, there are 16 more non-ADA-accessible stations with cross-platform interchanges, as well as other same-platform transfers, designed to handle wheelchair transfers.Entertainment
While a permit is not required for performances in the subway, certain codes of conduct are required. Any musician/entertainer may perform in subway mezzanines and platforms. On platforms, there may be no amplifications as this is part of MTA policies:Performers must not be within of a token booth or from an MTA office/tower, blocking access to an escalator, stairwell, or elevator, interfering with transit services or passenger movement; or in an area where construction is occurring. In addition, performance is prohibited during public service announcements and may be no louder than 85 dBA at away or 70 dBa at from a token booth. Performances are prohibited in subway cars.
Since 1987, MTA has sponsored the "Music Under New York" program in which street musicians enter a competitive contest to be assigned to the preferred high traffic locations. Each year, applications are reviewed and approximately 70 eligible performers are selected and contacted to participate in live auditions held for one day. At present, more than 100 soloists and groups participate in MUNY providing over 150 weekly performances at 25 locations throughout the transit system, for example Natalia Paruz, a musical saw player, plays at Union Square.
Restrooms
Restrooms are rare in the subway system as only 133 open restrooms are in 81 of the system's stations. Most station restrooms previously open to the public have been closed to the public and converted to storage spaces or for employee use only. However, there are a few major stations that have operating restrooms, including on the concourses of 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal, Chambers Street, 57th Street–Seventh Avenue, Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue, and Lexington Avenue/59th Street. The majority of restrooms in the New York City Subway are found in express and transfer stations, at ADA-accessible stations, and at terminals, though not all of the aforementioned types of stations have restrooms. Recent plans include "overhauling" and reopening previously-closed restrooms.Newer subway stations have restrooms, including 34th Street–Hudson Yards on the IRT Flushing Line and three Second Avenue Subway stations.
Retail
Some platforms have newspaper stands that sell various items including newspapers and food. The MTA also installed retail spaces within paid areas in selected stations, including the station concourses of the Times Square complex and the Sixth Avenue concourse at 42nd Street–Bryant Park.According to the MTA, the New York City Subway is home to 345 retail spaces, making over US$70 million in rent and licensing fees in 2009 for the authority. It is continuing to make efforts in attracting more diverse retailers and vendors to set up shop in the subway system., there are 111 newsstands in the system, including 20 that are vacant. This includes three empty stands on the Second Avenue Subway that opened that year.
Connections
Rapid transit and rail connections are available at designated stations to Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road, AirTrain JFK, Metro-North Railroad, New Jersey Transit and PATH. Connections to the Staten Island Ferry and privately operated ferries such as NYC Ferry, NY Waterway and New York Water Taxi, as well as intercity and commuter bus lines at the Port Authority Bus Terminal and George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal, are also available. Free MetroCard-only transfers to buses are available to MTA New York City Transit buses, MTA Bus Company, NICE buses and Bee-Line buses.Station management
In 2018, New York City Transit president Andy Byford implemented a "group station manager" program, where 24 people would be hired to oversee up to 25 stations. This replaced a previous system where station managers could be responsible for up to 100 stations. Group station managers were generally responsible for coordinating repairs and operations, as well as providing customer service in each of the stations under their purview. These group station managers had repaired over 62,000 issues by early 2020.Station platforms and configurations
Out of the system's stations, 283 are underground, 149 are elevated, 20 are in open cuts, 7 are at-grade, and 13 are on embankments.A typical subway station has waiting platforms ranging from long, though some IND platforms may be as long as long. Platforms of former commuter rail stations, such as those on the IND Rockaway Line, are even longer. Due to the large number of transit lines, one platform or set of platforms often serves more than one service. A passenger needs to look at the signs hung at the platform entrance steps and over each track to see which trains stop there and when, and at the arriving train to see which train it is.
Almost everywhere express trains run, they run on the inner one or two tracks, and local trains run on the outer two tracks. In a 3-track configuration, the center track can be used toward the center of the city in the morning and away from the center in the evening, though not every 3-track line has that express service.
There are several common platform configurations:
- On a 2-track line, a station may have one center island platform used for trains in both directions, or 2 side platforms, one for a train in each direction.
- For a 3-track or 4-track line, local stops will have side platforms and the middle one or two tracks will not stop at the station.
- For most 3- or 4-track express stops, there will be two island platforms, one for the local and express in one direction, and another for the local and express in the other direction. Each island platform provides a cross-platform interchange between the local and express services.
There is one notable 6-track local station, DeKalb Avenue on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line, where trains to or from the Manhattan Bridge either stop at the outer tracks of the island platforms or pass through and bypass the station on the middle tracks . Trains to or from the Montague Street Tunnel stop across the platform from the respective outer track.
Stations with two levels
Some stations have two levels. The levels separate the platforms of different services and/or directions. For example:- the local trains on one level and the express trains on another level
- trains of two different lines on two different levels
- trains of two different directions on two different levels, with a cross-platform interchange on each level
- trains of different services on two different levels that are on the same line
Complete lists of stations
Borough | Station complexes | Services | ||
The Bronx | 70 | 68 | 2 | |
Brooklyn | 170 | 157 | 10 | |
Manhattan | 151 | 121 | 18 | |
Queens | 81 | 78 | 2 | |
All | 32 |
Station complexes
The New York City Subway has several types of transfer stations, among them station complexes and stations serving two or more lines. The table below only lists the station complexes. For a more detailed list see the main article.Name of station complex | Daytime Services | Borough |
14th Street/Sixth Avenue | Manhattan | |
14th Street/Eighth Avenue | Manhattan | |
14th Street–Union Square | Manhattan | |
34th Street–Herald Square | Manhattan | |
42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue | Manhattan | |
59th Street–Columbus Circle | Manhattan | |
149th Street–Grand Concourse | the Bronx | |
161st Street–Yankee Stadium | the Bronx | |
168th Street | Manhattan | |
Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center | Brooklyn | |
Borough Hall/Court Street | Brooklyn | |
Broadway–Lafayette Street/Bleecker Street | Manhattan | |
Broadway Junction | Brooklyn | |
Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street | Manhattan | |
Canal Street | Manhattan | |
Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street | Manhattan | |
Court Square–23rd Street | Queens | |
Delancey Street/Essex Street | Manhattan | |
Fourth Avenue/Ninth Street | Brooklyn | |
Franklin Avenue/Botanic Garden | Brooklyn | |
Franklin Avenue–Fulton Street | Brooklyn | |
Fulton Street | Manhattan | |
Grand Central–42nd Street | Manhattan | |
Jay Street–MetroTech | Brooklyn | |
Lexington Avenue/51st Street | Manhattan | |
Lexington Avenue/59th Street | Manhattan | |
Metropolitan Avenue/Lorimer Street | Brooklyn | |
Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues | Brooklyn | |
62nd Street/New Utrecht Avenue | Brooklyn | |
Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street | Queens | |
South Ferry/Whitehall Street | Manhattan | |
Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal | Manhattan |
Stations with the same name
Many stations share the same name. These stations are disambiguated by the line each of them is on. The following list shows these occurrences presented alphabetically by borough, then west to east, then north to south; stations of the same name that form a subway complex are grouped in parentheses ; demolished and permanently closed stations areName of station | Lines | Boroughs |
Third Avenue | IRT Pelham Line IRT White Plains Road Line | the Bronx |
Third Avenue | BMT Canarsie Line | Manhattan |
Fifth Avenue | BMT Broadway Line IND Queens Boulevard Line IRT Flushing Line | Manhattan |
Seventh Avenue | IND Culver Line BMT Brighton Line | Brooklyn |
Seventh Avenue | IND Queens Boulevard Line and IND Sixth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Eighth Avenue | BMT Sea Beach Line | Brooklyn |
Eighth Avenue | BMT Canarsie Line | Manhattan |
Ninth Avenue | Brooklyn | |
14th Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
18th Avenue | IND Culver Line BMT Sea Beach Line BMT West End Line | Brooklyn |
18th Street | IRT Seventh Avenue Line | Manhattan |
20th Avenue | BMT Sea Beach Line BMT West End Line | Brooklyn |
21st Street | IND Crosstown Line IND 63rd Street Line | Queens |
23rd Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Seventh Avenue Line IND Sixth Avenue Line BMT Broadway Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
23rd Street | IND Queens Boulevard Line | Queens |
28th Street | IRT Seventh Avenue Line BMT Broadway Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
33rd Street | IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
33rd Street | IRT Flushing Line | Queens |
34th Street | IRT Flushing Line IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | Manhattan |
36th Street | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | Brooklyn |
36th Street | IND Queens Boulevard Line | Queens |
42nd Street | IND Sixth Avenue Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
46th Street | IND Queens Boulevard Line IRT Flushing Line | Queens |
50th Street | BMT West End Line | Brooklyn |
50th Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line and IND Queens Boulevard Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line IND Sixth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
53rd Street | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | Brooklyn |
53rd Street | Fifth Avenue Lexington Avenue | Manhattan |
57th Street | BMT Broadway Line IND Sixth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
59th Street | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | Brooklyn |
59th Street | IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
72nd Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line IND Second Avenue Line | Manhattan |
77th Street | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | Brooklyn |
77th Street | IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
79th Street | BMT West End Line | Brooklyn |
79th Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | Manhattan |
86th Street | BMT Fourth Avenue Line BMT Sea Beach Line | Brooklyn |
86th Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line IND Second Avenue Line | Manhattan |
96th Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line IND Second Avenue Line | Manhattan |
103rd Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
103rd Street | IRT Flushing Line | Queens |
104th Street | BMT Jamaica Line IND Fulton Street Line | Queens |
110th Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Lenox Avenue Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
111th Street | IRT Flushing Line BMT Jamaica Line IND Fulton Street Line | Queens |
116th Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Lenox Avenue Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
125th Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Lenox Avenue Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
135th Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Lenox Avenue Line | Manhattan |
138th Street | IRT Jerome Avenue Line IRT Pelham Line | the Bronx |
145th Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line and IND Concourse Line IRT Lenox Avenue Line | Manhattan |
149th Street | IRT White Plains Road Line IRT Pelham Line | the Bronx |
155th Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line IND Concourse Line | Manhattan |
161st Street | the Bronx | |
167th Street | IND Jerome Avenue Line IND Concourse Line | the Bronx |
168th Street | Manhattan | |
168th Street | Queens | |
170th Street | IRT Jerome Avenue Line IND Concourse Line | the Bronx |
174th Street | IND Concourse Line IRT White Plains Road Line | the Bronx |
175th Street | IND Concourse Line | the Bronx |
175th Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
181st Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | Manhattan |
183rd Street | IRT Jerome Avenue Line IND Concourse Line | the Bronx |
200th Street | IRT Jerome Avenue Line | the Bronx |
200th Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
207th Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | Manhattan |
225th Street | IRT White Plains Road Line | the Bronx |
225th Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | Manhattan |
238th Street | IRT White Plains Road Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | the Bronx |
Atlantic Avenue | Brooklyn | |
Avenue U | BMT Sea Beach Line IND Culver Line BMT Brighton Line | Brooklyn |
Bay Parkway | BMT West End Line BMT Sea Beach Line IND Culver Line | Brooklyn |
Bedford Avenue | BMT Canarsie Line IND Crosstown Line | Brooklyn |
Bedford Park Boulevard | IRT Jerome Avenue Line IND Concourse Line | the Bronx |
Bergen Street | IND Culver Line IRT Eastern Parkway Line | Brooklyn |
Beverley Road | BMT Brighton Line IRT Nostrand Avenue Line | Brooklyn |
Borough Hall | Brooklyn | |
Broadway | IND Crosstown Line | Brooklyn |
Broadway | IND Sixth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Broadway | BMT Astoria Line IRT Flushing Line | Queens |
Broadway Junction | Brooklyn | |
Canal Street | IRT Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Chambers Street | IRT Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line BMT Nassau Street Line | Manhattan |
Cathedral Parkway | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line IND Eighth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Church Avenue | IND Culver Line BMT Brighton Line IRT Nostrand Avenue Line | Brooklyn |
City Hall | BMT Broadway Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Clinton–Washington Avenues | IND Crosstown Line IND Fulton Street Line | Brooklyn |
Cortlandt Street | IRT Seventh Avenue Line BMT Broadway Line | Manhattan |
Court Street | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | Brooklyn |
DeKalb Avenue | BMT Fourth Avenue Line and BMT Brighton Line BMT Canarsie Line | Brooklyn |
Dyckman Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | Manhattan |
East 180th Street | the Bronx | |
Elmhurst Avenue | IRT Flushing Line IND Queens Boulevard Line | Queens |
Flushing Avenue | BMT Jamaica Line IND Crosstown Line | Brooklyn |
Fordham Road | IRT Jerome Avenue Line IND Concourse Line | the Bronx |
Fort Hamilton Parkway | IND Culver Line BMT West End Line BMT Sea Beach Line | Brooklyn |
Franklin Avenue | IRT Eastern Parkway Line | Brooklyn |
Fulton Street | IND Crosstown Line | Brooklyn |
Fulton Street | Manhattan | |
Grand Central | Manhattan | |
Grand Street | BMT Canarsie Line | Brooklyn |
Grand Street | IND Sixth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Gun Hill Road | IRT Dyre Avenue Line | the Bronx |
Halsey Street | BMT Canarsie Line BMT Jamaica Line | Brooklyn |
Hoyt Street | IRT Eastern Parkway Line IND Fulton Street Line and IND Crosstown Line | Brooklyn |
Jackson Heights | IRT Flushing Line IND Queens Boulevard Line | Queens |
Jay Street | Brooklyn | |
JFK Airport | IND Rockaway Line | Queens |
Kings Highway | BMT Sea Beach Line IND Culver Line BMT Brighton Line | Brooklyn |
Kingsbridge Road | IRT Jerome Avenue Line IND Concourse Line | the Bronx |
Kingston Avenue | IND Fulton Street Line IRT Eastern Parkway Line | Brooklyn |
Lafayette | IND Fulton Street Line | Brooklyn |
Lafayette | IND Sixth Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Lexington Avenue | IND 63rd Street Line and BMT 63rd Street Line BMT Broadway Line IND Queens Boulevard Line | Manhattan |
Lorimer Street | BMT Canarsie Line BMT Jamaica Line | Brooklyn |
Metropolitan Avenue | IND Crosstown Line | Brooklyn |
Metropolitan Avenue | BMT Myrtle Avenue Line | Queens |
Mott Avenue | IRT White Plains Road Line | the Bronx |
Mott Avenue | IND Rockaway Line | Queens |
Myrtle Avenue | BMT Jamaica Line IND Crosstown Line | Brooklyn |
New Lots Avenue | BMT Canarsie Line IRT New Lots Line | Brooklyn |
Norwood | IND Concourse Line | the Bronx |
Norwood | BMT Jamaica Line | Brooklyn |
Nostrand Avenue | IND Fulton Street Line IRT Eastern Parkway Line IND Crosstown Line | Brooklyn |
Park Place | BMT Franklin Avenue Shuttle | Brooklyn |
Park Place | IRT Seventh Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Parsons Boulevard | IND Queens Boulevard Line IND Archer Avenue Line and BMT Archer Avenue Line | Queens |
Pelham Parkway | IRT White Plains Road Line IRT Dyre Avenue Line | the Bronx |
Penn Station | IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Prospect Avenue | IRT White Plains Road Line | the Bronx |
Prospect Avenue | BMT Fourth Avenue Line | Brooklyn |
Prospect Park | IND Culver Line BMT Brighton Line and BMT Franklin Avenue Shuttle | Brooklyn |
Rector Street | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line BMT Broadway Line | Manhattan |
Rockaway Avenue | IND Fulton Street Line IRT New Lots Line | Brooklyn |
South Ferry | Manhattan | |
Spring Street | IND Eighth Avenue Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Sutphin Boulevard | IND Queens Boulevard Line IND Archer Avenue Line and BMT Archer Avenue Line | Queens |
Sutter Avenue | IRT New Lots Line BMT Canarsie Line | Brooklyn |
Times Square | Manhattan | |
Tremont Avenue | IND Concourse Line IRT White Plains Road Line IRT Pelham Line | the Bronx |
Union Square | Manhattan | |
Utica Avenue | IND Fulton Street Line IRT Eastern Parkway Line | Brooklyn |
Van Siclen Avenue | BMT Jamaica Line IND Fulton Street Line IRT New Lots Line | Brooklyn |
Wall Street | IRT Lexington Avenue Line IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line | Manhattan |
Woodhaven Boulevard | IND Queens Boulevard Line BMT Jamaica Line | Queens |
- The 5 on each of its two northern branches in the Bronx stops at two stations that bear the same name: Gun Hill Road on the Dyre Avenue Line and the White Plains Road Line, and Pelham Parkway on the Dyre Avenue Line and the White Plains Road Line.
- The B stops at two stations named Seventh Avenue: Seventh Avenue–Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn and Seventh Avenue–53rd Street in Manhattan.
- The D stops at two stations named 50th Street: 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center in Manhattan and 50th Street in Brooklyn. In addition, a third station, Bay 50th Street in Brooklyn, has 50th Street as part of its name.
- The E stops at two stations named 23rd Street: 23rd Street in Manhattan and Court Square–23rd Street in Queens.
- The M stops at two stations named Myrtle Avenue: Myrtle Avenue–Broadway and Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues, both in Brooklyn. It also stops at two stations named 23rd Street: 23rd Street in Manhattan and Court Square–23rd Street in Queens.
- The R stops at two stations named 36th Street: 36th Street–Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn and 36th Street–Northern Boulevard in Queens.
- Dyckman Street and Bedford Park Boulevard were both originally known as 200th Street.
Top stations by ridership
Rank | Station | Annual ridership |
1 | Times Square–42nd Street/42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal | 65,060,656 |
2 | Grand Central–42nd Street | 45,207,849 |
3 | 34th Street–Herald Square | 39,111,312 |
4 | 14th Street–Union Square | 33,124,407 |
5 | Fulton Street | 27,719,115 |
6 | 34th Street–Penn Station | 25,968,950 |
7 | 34th Street–Penn Station | 24,857,456 |
8 | 59th Street–Columbus Circle | 22,991,014 |
9 | Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street | 21,636,146 |
10 | Lexington Avenue/51st Street | 18,585,755 |
Rank | Station | Average weekday ridership |
1 | Times Square–42nd Street/42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal | 204,017 |
2 | Grand Central–42nd Street | 155,345 |
3 | 34th Street–Herald Square | 126,576 |
4 | 14th Street–Union Square | 103,572 |
5 | Fulton Street | 92,990 |
6 | 34th Street–Penn Station | 85,180 |
7 | 34th Street–Penn Station | 80,346 |
8 | 59th Street–Columbus Circle | 73,003 |
9 | Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street | 72,396 |
10 | 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center station | 64,499 |
Rank | Station | Average weekend ridership |
1 | Times Square–42nd Street/42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal | 240,645 |
2 | 34th Street–Herald Square | 126,221 |
3 | 14th Street–Union Square | 125,348 |
4 | Grand Central–42nd Street | 103,993 |
5 | 59th Street–Columbus Circle | 81,271 |
6 | 34th Street–Penn Station | 80,930 |
7 | 34th Street–Penn Station | 78,700 |
8 | Fulton Street | 74,524 |
9 | Canal Street station | 74,070 |
10 | Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street | 69,953 |