The Ultimate R (New York City Subway service) - American History Information Guide and Reference

The R Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored yellow, since it uses the Broadway-BMT Line in midtown Manhattan. Normal service is local from Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Bay Ridge-95th Street ; during late nights it operates as a shuttle from 36th Street to 95th Street.

The following lines are used by the :

Line	Tracks	When
Queens Boulevard Line from Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Queens Plaza	local	all but late nights
60th Street Tunnel Connection	N/A	all but late nights
60th Street Tunnel	N/A	all but late nights
BMT Broadway-BMT Line	local	all but late nights
BMT Montague Street Tunnel	N/A	all but late nights
BMT Fourth Avenue Line to 36th Street	local	all but late nights
BMT Fourth Avenue Line from 36th Street to Bay Ridge-95th Street	local	all (late nights, skips 53rd Street and 45th Street northbound)

Contents

Former uses

2

4^TH AVENUE

R1 end rollsign

RR

BWAY-4^TH AVE

R27 end rollsign
(later said just
BROADWAY[1])

1967-1979 bullets (in a circle)

The line that later became the R was the BMT's 2, known as the Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) Line . In its very early days, it used the Manhattan Bridge. The Montague Street Tunnel opened on October 1, 1920, and at that time it took its current shape, running local from Queensboro Plaza to 86th Street (one stop short of its current end at Bay Ridge). The current terminal at Bay Ridge (95th Street) opened on October 31, 1925. Throughout this time, rush-hour specials to Chambers Street on the Nassau Street Line were added and later removed, only to be added again. At one time, including 1931, additional midday service operated local between 57th Street and Whitehall Street . The 2 also used the Nassau Street Loop during rush hours, entering Manhattan via the Manhattan Bridge or Montague Street Tunnel and leaving via the other.

On October 17, 1949, the platforms on the Astoria Line had been shaved, and the BMT's Astoria Shuttle was replaced with through service from the Fourth Avenue Line. On January 1, 1961, the Queens end was moved to its current location at Forest Hills, via the 60th Street Tunnel Connection.

In winter 1960-1961, letters started to appear on the RR, which was known as Fourth Avenue Local via Tunnel service, from Forest Hills to Bay Ridge, just as the R does now. On November 27, 1967, the day after the Chrystie Street Connection opened, the RR was moved back to Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard on the Astoria Line ( began at Whitehall Street on the RR and used the former route to Forest Hills). The Nassau Street specials were through-routed from Bay Ridge to 168th Street in Jamaica as RJ. Under the first color scheme, RR was colored green and RJ was red.

The RJ service only lasted a few months before it was cut back to Chambers Street and renamed as additional RR rush-hour "diamond" service. In 1986, when double letters were eliminated, RR service became R. R service was assigned the color yellow (because it used the Broadway-BMT Line), and special Chambers Street rush-hour service was brown (using the Nassau Street Line). In 1986 or 1987, the special rush-hour service was removed, and the R was moved back to its original route, once again going to Forest Hills, in May 1987.

When the IND Archer Avenue Line opened on December 11, 1988, E was rerouted along it, and the R was extended to replace the E to 179th Street . This was short-lived, and the R was cut back to Forest Hills in favor of an extension of the F, which runs express west of Forest Hills.

On September 11, 2001, after the attack on the World Trade Center, the Broadway-BMT Line was damaged, and the R was cut back to run only south of Court Street . On September 17, the R was totally suspended, replaced with an extended J.[2] R service was brought back, in its current form, on October 28.[3]

Station listing

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

Station	When	Services
Forest Hills-71st Avenue	all but late nights
67th Avenue	all but late nights
63rd Drive-Rego Park	all but late nights	E ⁽⁵⁾ G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾
Woodhaven Boulevard	all but late nights	E ⁽⁵⁾ G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾
Grand Avenue-Newtown	all but late nights	E ⁽⁵⁾ G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾
Elmhurst Avenue	all but late nights	E ⁽⁵⁾ G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾
Roosevelt Avenue-Jackson Heights	all but late nights	E F G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾
65th Street	all but late nights	E ⁽⁵⁾ G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾
Northern Boulevard	all but late nights	E ⁽⁵⁾ G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾
46th Street	all but late nights	E ⁽⁵⁾ G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾
Steinway Street	all but late nights	E ⁽⁵⁾ G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾
36th Street	all but late nights	E ⁽⁵⁾ G ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ V ⁽¹²³⁾
Queens Plaza	all but late nights
Lexington Avenue-59th Street	all but late nights	(MetroCard)
Fifth Avenue-59th Street	all but late nights	N R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a)
57th Street	all but late nights
49th Street	all but late nights
42nd Street-Times Square	all but late nights	N Q R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a) 7 <7> ^(1a2a3b) Port Authority Bus Terminal
34th Street-Herald Square	all but late nights	N Q R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a)
28th Street	all but late nights	N ⁽⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a)
23rd Street	all but late nights	N ⁽⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a)
14th Street-Union Square	all but late nights	N Q R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a) 4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
8th Street-NYU	all but late nights	N ⁽⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a)
Prince Street	all but late nights	N ⁽⁴⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a)
Canal Street	all but late nights
City Hall	all but late nights	N ⁽⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a)
Cortlandt Street	all but late nights	N ⁽⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a)
Rector Street	all but late nights	N ⁽⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a)
Whitehall Street	all but late nights	N ⁽⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ W ^(123a)
Court Street-Borough Hall	all but late nights
Lawrence Street	all but late nights	M ⁽¹⁾ N ⁽⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
DeKalb Avenue	all but late nights	M ⁽¹⁾ N ⁽⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Pacific Street	all but late nights
Union Street	all but late nights
Ninth Street	all but late nights	D ⁽⁵⁾ M ⁽¹⁾ N ⁽⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
Prospect Avenue	all but late nights	D ⁽⁵⁾ M ⁽¹⁾ N ⁽⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
25th Street	all but late nights	D ⁽⁵⁾ M ⁽¹⁾ N ⁽⁵⁾ R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
36th Street	always
45th Street	always (southbound) all but late nights (northbound)
53rd Street	always (southbound) all but late nights (northbound)	N ⁽⁵⁾ R ^(12345b)
59th Street	always	N R
Bay Ridge Avenue	always
77th Street	always	R
86th Street	always	R
Bay Ridge-95th Street	always	R

External links

MTA New York City Transit - R Broadway Local

References

Categories: New York City Subway services

Last updated: 06-03-2005 02:38:59

Your American History Reference Guide! - R (New York City Subway service)

R (New York City Subway service)

Former uses

Station listing

External links

References

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- R (New York City Subway service)