List of New York City Subway stations

The current New York City Transit Authority rail system map. The Staten Island Railway (on the bottom left portion of the map) is operated by the NYCTA but is a separate entity from the New York City Subway, and the AirTrain JFK (the dark green line at the middle right) is not operated by the NYCTA.

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of 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 2014, 5.598 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 (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). 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 (buses and streetcars) infrastructure of the Board of Transportation, remains the operator of the New York City Subway today.

The official count of stations is 469; 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 422. 32 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.

Included in the station counts is one station that is temporarily closed: Cortlandt Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line. The station closed when it was destroyed during the September 11, 2001 attacks. There are numerous other 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 station is 34th Street – Hudson Yards, opened on September 13, 2015.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is currently building three new New York City Subway stations as part of the Second Avenue Subway, a long-deferred project intended to relieve congestion on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4 5 6 <6> trains), the busiest rapid transit corridor in the United States. The stations will be located on Second Avenue at 72nd, 86th and 96th streets.

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 (A B C D trains), the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line (1 trains), the IRT Lenox Avenue Line (2 3 trains), and the IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4 5 6 <6> trains). This situation occurs numerous times.

Station configurations

NYCS station configurations
Legend
Station with 2 tracks and 2 side platforms
Station with 2 tracks and one island platform
Local station with 3 tracks  Local Express Local
Express station with 3 tracks  Local Express Local
Local station with 4 tracks  Local Express Express Local
Express station with 4 tracks (typical configuration)  Local Express Express Local
Express station with 4 tracks (with connection to a major railway station)  Local Express Express Local
DeKalb Avenue station (only weekday services shown)

Out of the system's 469 stations, about 280 are underground and about 150 are elevated, the rest are in open cuts, at-grade and on embankments.

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  Typical underground station

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  Typical elevated station

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  Typical entrance to an underground station

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  Typical entrance to an elevated station

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  Typical underground station mezzanine

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  Typical elevated station mezzanine

Many stations have mezzanines. These allow for passengers to enter from multiple entrances and proceed to the correct platform without having to cross the street before entering. 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.

Due to the large number of transit lines, one platform or set of platforms often serves more than one service (unlike other rapid transit systems, including the Paris Metro but like some lines on the London Underground). 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.

Bay Parkway station on the West End Line. The track in the middle is a bi-directional express track

Almost everywhere expresses run, they run on the inner one (of 3) or two (of 4) tracks, and locals 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 a number of 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.

In a few cases, a 4-track station has an island platform for the center express tracks and two side platforms for the outside local tracks. This occurs only at three stations near major railway stations where the next station along the line is also an express station with the more common platform configuration. The purpose of splitting the platforms is to limit overcrowding by preventing cross-platform interchanges between local and express services. This occurs at Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line (2 3 4 5 trains) with an adjacent express station at Nevins Street, where the connection is to the Atlantic Terminal of the Long Island Rail Road; and 34th Street – Penn Station on both the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line (1 2 3 trains) and IND Eighth Avenue Line (A C E trains), with adjacent express stations at Times Square – 42nd Street and 42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal, where the connection is to Pennsylvania Station, one of the two major New York City railway stations. This does not occur with the connection to New York's other major station, Grand Central Terminal, at Grand Central on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4 5 6 <6> trains), which has no adjacent express station.

There is one notable 6-track local station, DeKalb Avenue, where trains to or from the Manhattan Bridge either stop at the outer tracks of the island platforms (B Q trains), or pass through and bypass the station on the middle tracks ("express tracks") (D N trains). Trains to or from the Montague Street Tunnel ( R trains) stop across the platform from the respective outer track.

Stations with two levels

Two levels of tracks near the West Eighth Street – New York Aquarium station

Also, 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

Two lines on different levels (145th Street; only rush hour services shown)  B2 x20px B3 x20px x20px x20px x20px

Different services on different levels (50th Street)  B1 x20px B2 x20px x20px x20px x20px

Express and local trains on different levels (86th Street)  B1 x20px B2 x20px x20px x20px x20px L L E E

Different directions on different levels (125th Street)  B2 x20px B3 x20px x20px x20px x20px E L L E

Complete lists of stations

The complete list of stations is split by borough. The second column displays the number of stations as counted by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The third column shows the number of stations when "station complexes" are considered to be one station each.

Borough	Number of stations	Number of stations	Station complexes	Services
BronxThe Bronx	070	068	02	1 2 4 5 6 B D 1   2   4   5   6   <6>   B   D
BrooklynBrooklyn	170	157	010	2 3 4 5 A B C D F G J L M N Q R S Z 2   3   4   5   A   B   C   D   F   G   J   L   M   N   Q   R   S  (Franklin Avenue)  Z
ManhattanManhattan	148	119	18	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A B C D E F J L M N Q R S Z 1   2   3   4   5   6   <6>   7   <7>   A   B   C   D   E   F   J   L   M   N   Q   R   S  (42nd Street)  Z
QueensQueens	081	078	02	7 A E F G J M N R S Z 7   <7>   A   E   F   G   J   M   N   Q   R   S  (Rockaway Park)  Z
All	469	422	32	0 1   2   3   4   5   6   <6>   7   <7>   A   B   C   D   E   F   G   J   L   M   N   Q   R   S   Z

Station complexes

Main article: List of New York City Subway transfer stations

The New York City Subway has several types of transfer stations, among them station complexes (i.e. sets of two or more stations connected with a passageway inside fare control) and stations serving two or more lines (considered to be one station each). 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	1   2   3   F   L   M	Manhattan
14th Street – Eighth Avenue	A   C   E   L	Manhattan
14th Street – Union Square	4   5   6   <6>   L   N   Q   R	Manhattan
34th Street – Herald Square	B   D   F   M   N   Q   R	Manhattan
42nd Street – Bryant Park / Fifth Avenue	7   <7>   B   D   F   M	Manhattan
59th Street – Columbus Circle	1   A   B   C   D	Manhattan
149th Street – Grand Concourse	2   4   5	the Bronx
161st Street – Yankee Stadium	4   B   D	the Bronx
168th Street – Washington Heights	1   A   C	Manhattan
Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center	2   3   4   5   B   D   N   Q   R	Brooklyn
Bleecker Street / Broadway – Lafayette Street	6   <6>   B   D   F   M	Manhattan
Broadway Junction	A   C   J   L   Z	Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall / Chambers Street	4   5   6   <6>   J   Z	Manhattan
Canal Street	6   <6>   J   N   Q   R   Z	Manhattan
Chambers Street – World Trade Center / Park Place	2   3   A   C   E	Manhattan
Court Square	7   <7>   E   G   M	Queens
Court Street – Borough Hall	2   3   4   5   N   R	Brooklyn
Delancey Street – Essex Street	F   J   M   Z	Manhattan
Fourth Avenue / Ninth Street	F   G   R	Brooklyn
Franklin Avenue – Botanic Garden	2   3   4   5   S	Brooklyn
Franklin Avenue – Fulton Street	C   S	Brooklyn
Fulton Street	2   3   4   5   A   C   J   Z	Manhattan
Grand Central – 42nd Street	4   5   6   <6>   7   <7>   S	Manhattan
Jay Street – MetroTech	A   C   F   N   R	Brooklyn
Lexington Avenue / 51st – 53rd Streets	6   <6>   E   M	Manhattan
Lexington Avenue / 59th Street	4   5   6   <6>   N   Q   R	Manhattan
Lorimer Street / Metropolitan Avenue	G   L	Brooklyn
Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues	L   M	Brooklyn
New Utrecht Avenue / 62nd Street	D   N	Brooklyn
Roosevelt Avenue / 74th Street	7   E   F   M   R	Queens
South Ferry – Whitehall Street	1   R	Manhattan
Times Square – 42nd Street / 42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal	1   2   3   7   <7>   A   C   E   N   Q   R   S	Manhattan

Stations with the same name

At six stations, "23rd Street" is the most common station name. This 23rd Street station is on the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan

The name "Broadway" is used in three boroughs, the most of any name. This Broadway station is on the BMT Astoria Line in Queens

There are many stations that 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 are stricken through; future stations are in italics:

• 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 (BMT Brighton Line) in Brooklyn and Seventh Avenue (IND Sixth Avenue Line) in Manhattan.
• The D stops at three stations named 50th Street: 47th–50th Streets – Rockefeller Center (IND Sixth Avenue Line) in Manhattan, and 50th Street and Bay 50th Street (both on the BMT West End Line) in Brooklyn.
• The E stops at two stations named 23rd Street: 23rd Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) in Manhattan and Court Square – 23rd Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line) in Queens.
• The M stops at two stations named Myrtle Avenue: Myrtle Avenue – Broadway (BMT Jamaica Line) and Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line), both in Brooklyn. It also stops at two stations named 23rd Street: 23rd Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line) in Manhattan and Court Square – 23rd Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line) in Queens.
• The R stops at two stations named 36th Street: 36th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) in Brooklyn and 36th Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line) in Queens.
• The stations listed with 200th Street still count since Dyckman Street and Bedford Park Boulevard are originally known as 200th Street.

Top stations by ridership

These tables list the top ten New York City Subway stations by annual, average weekday, and average weekend ridership in 2012.

Annual

Rank	Station	Annual ridership (2012)
1	Times Square – 42nd Street / 42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal	62,069,437
2	Grand Central – 42nd Street	42,984,249
3	34th Street – Herald Square	37,154,138
4	14th Street – Union Square	34,639,575
5	34th Street – Penn Station (Seventh Avenue)	27,010,176
6	34th Street – Penn Station (Eighth Avenue)	24,851,746
7	59th Street – Columbus Circle	21,599,586
8	Lexington Avenue / 59th Street	20,628,942
9	86th Street (Lexington Avenue)	19,686,985
10	Lexington Avenue / 51st – 53rd Streets	19,280,036

Weekday

Rank	Station	Average weekday ridership (2012)
1	Times Square – 42nd Street / 42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal	195,464
2	Grand Central – 42nd Street	150,266
3	34th Street – Herald Square	121,120
4	14th Street – Union Square	108,000
5	34th Street – Penn Station (Seventh Avenue)	88,929
6	34th Street – Penn Station (Eighth Avenue)	82,511
7	59th Street – Columbus Circle	69,653
8	Lexington Avenue / 51st – 53rd Streets	67,821
9	Lexington Avenue / 59th Street	67,478
10	86th Street (Lexington Avenue)	63,550

Weekend

Rank	Station	Average weekend ridership (2012)
1	Times Square – 42nd Street / 42nd Street – Port Authority Bus Terminal	239,674
2	14th Street – Union Square	140,855
3	34th Street – Herald Square	125,297
4	Grand Central – 42nd Street	99,936
5	34th Street – Penn Station (Seventh Avenue)	87,177
6	34th Street – Penn Station (Eighth Avenue)	76,888
7	59th Street – Columbus Circle	76,520
8	Canal Street (Chinatown)	73,859
9	Flushing – Main Street	70,993
10	86th Street (Lexington Avenue)	70,146

See also

• New York City Subway stations
• List of New York City Subway transfer stations
• List of New York City Subway terminals
• List of accessible New York City Subway stations
• List of closed New York City Subway stations
• List of Staten Island Railway stations