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The A Eighth Avenue Express and C Eighth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. They are colored blue, since they use the IND Eighth Avenue Line through midtown Manhattan. The longest one-seat ride on the subway system is on the , 31 miles (50 km) from Inwood to Far Rockaway. The normal A service pattern is from Inwood-207th Street to Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard or Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue , running express in Manhattan and Brooklyn; some rush hour trips run to Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street ; the Rockaway Park Shuttle goes there all the time. trains run local along this route from Washington Heights-168th Street to Euclid Avenue , which is exactly where the A runs express. At late nights, C service doesn't run, and A service runs local, and only on the branch to Far Rockaway; a special shuttle (the Lefferts Boulevard Shuttle) runs from Euclid Avenue to Lefferts Boulevard.

Billy Strayhorn's jazz hit Take the A Train (popularized in 1941 by Duke Ellington) made the A train famous. It is among the better-known trains in the system.

The following lines are used by the A and C (the latter of which has no late night service):

Line	Tracks	When
IND Eighth Avenue Line north of Washington Heights-168th Street	N/A	always (A only)
IND Eighth Avenue Line south of Washington Heights-168th Street	A express (local late nights) C local	always
IND Fulton Street Line north of Euclid Avenue	A express (local late nights) C local	always
IND Fulton Street Line south of Euclid Avenue	local	always (A only)
IND Rockaway Line and IND Far Rockaway Branch (full line)	N/A	always (A only)
IND Rockaway Park Branch (full line)	N/A	A rush hours in peak direction only

Contents

1 Service history

1.1 A and AA
1.2 C and CC
1.3 Recent history

2 Station listing

3 External links

4 References

Service history

A and AA

AA

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The A and AA were the first services on the IND Eighth Avenue Line when it opened on September 10, 1932. The A ran express between 207th Street and Hudson Terminal, and the AA was a local between 168th Street and Chambers Street (adjacent to Hudson Terminal). During late nights and Sundays, the A didn't run and the AA made all stops along the line.

The A was extended to Jay Street-Borough Hall on February 1, 1933, when the Cranberry Street Tunnel to Brooklyn opened; an extension to Bergen Street opened on March 20, 1933.

C and CC

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CC

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1967-1979 bullet (in a circle)

The C and CC began operation on July 1, 1933 over the new IND Concourse Line. The CC provided continuous local service between 205th Street and Hudson Terminal (possibly cut back to Bedford Park Boulevard while the C ran in that direction), while the C express ran only in the peak direction during rush hours, continuing through downtown to Bergen Street in Brooklyn.

Recent history

Until the early 1990s, the Lefferts Boulevard branch was the main branch and the Far Rockaway branch did not run during late night hours, when a transfer to a shuttle at Euclid Avenue in Brooklyn was made available; since then, it has been the Lefferts Boulevard branch which does not operate in the middle of the night.

On January 23, 2005, a control room in lower Manhattan caught fire, crippling A and C service. For more information, see Eighth Avenue Line#January 23, 2005 fire.

Station listing

For a more detailed station listing, see the articles on the lines listed above.

Station	When	Services
Manhattan
Inwood-207th Street	always
Dyckman Street	always	A
190th Street	always	A
181st Street	always	A
175th Street-George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal	always	A George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal
Washington Heights-168th Street	always
163rd Street-Amsterdam Avenue	A late nights only C all but late nights
155th Street	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
145th Street	always	A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
135th Street	A late nights only C all but late nights
125th Street	always
116th Street	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ B ^(123a) C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
110th Street-Cathedral Parkway	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ B ^(123a) C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
103rd Street	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ B ^(123a) C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
96th Street	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ B ^(123a) C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
86th Street	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ B ^(123a) C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
81st Street-Museum of Natural History	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ B ^(123a) C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
72nd Street	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ B ^(123a) C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
59th Street-Columbus Circle	always	A B ^(123a) C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ D
50th Street	A late nights only C all but late nights
42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal	always	Port Authority Bus Terminal
34th Street-Penn Station	always	A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ E Amtrak
23rd Street	A late nights only C all but late nights
14th Street	always	A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ E
West Fourth Street-Washington Square	always	A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ E
Spring Street	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ E
Canal Street	always	A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ E
Chambers Street	always
Broadway-Nassau Street	always	A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 2 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Brooklyn
High Street-Brooklyn Bridge	always
Jay Street-Borough Hall	always
Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street	always	A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Lafayette Avenue	A late nights only C all but late nights
Clinton-Washington Avenues	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Franklin Avenue	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Nostrand Avenue	always
Kingston-Throop Avenues	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Utica Avenue	always	A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Ralph Avenue	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Rockaway Avenue	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Broadway Junction	always	A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ L
Liberty Avenue	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Van Siclen Avenue	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Shepherd Avenue	A late nights only C all but late nights	A ⁽⁵⁾ C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Euclid Avenue	always	A C ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Grant Avenue	always
Queens
80th Street	always	A
88th Street	always	A
Rockaway Boulevard	always	A
trains to the Rockaways leave here
104th Street	always
111th Street	always	A
Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard	always
to the Rockaways (Queens)
Aqueduct Racetrack	11:00 to 19:00 on racing days, northbound trains only
Aqueduct-North Conduit Avenue	always	A
Howard Beach-JFK Airport	always	A AirTrain
Broad Channel	always
trains to Rockaway Park leave here
Beach 67th Street	always
Beach 60th Street	always	A
Beach 44th Street	always	A
Beach 36th Street	always	A
Beach 25th Street	always	A
Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue	always	A
to Rockaway Park (Queens)
Beach 90th Street	rush hours in peak direction only
Beach 98th Street	rush hours in peak direction only	A ^(1a) S
Beach 105th Street	rush hours in peak direction only	A ^(1a) S
Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street	rush hours in peak direction only	A ^(1a) S

External links

References

Line By Line History
IND Subway Services
City Opens Subway to Brooklyn Today, New York Times February 1, 1933 page 19
City Subway Adds a New Link Today, New York Times March 20, 1933 page 17
New Bronx Subway Starts Operation, New York Times July 1, 1933 page 15

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