IND Fulton Street Line

IND Fulton Street Line
The IND Fulton Street Line is served by the A and C.
Overview
Owner	City of New York
Termini	Jay Street–MetroTech Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard
Stations	22
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	New York City Subway
Operator(s)	New York City Transit Authority
Daily ridership	102,615[1]
History
Opened	1915–1956
Technical
Number of tracks	2-4
Character	Underground (Brooklyn) Elevated (Queens)
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification	Direct Current traction
Route map Legend Sixth Avenue Line Eighth Avenue Line Jay Street–MetroTech Fourth Avenue Line Court Street Culver Line Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets Lafayette Avenue (Fulton Street) Crosstown Line Clinton–Washington Avenues Franklin Avenue (Franklin Avenue Line) Nostrand Avenue Kingston–Throop Avenues Utica Avenue Ralph Avenue Rockaway Avenue Broadway Junction (Canarsie Line) Bay Ridge Branch Jamaica Line Liberty Avenue Van Siclen Avenue Shepherd Avenue Euclid Avenue Pitkin Yard provision for extension Grant Avenue former Fulton Street elevated 80th Street 88th Street Rockaway Boulevard Rockaway Line (former LIRR) 104th Street 111th Street Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard Legend Express station Local station Closed station This diagram: view talk edit

The IND Fulton Street Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, running from the Cranberry Street Tunnel under the East River through central Brooklyn to a terminus in Ozone Park, Queens. The IND Rockaway Line branches from it just east of Rockaway Boulevard. The A train runs express during daytime hours and local at night on the underground portion of the line; it runs local on the elevated portion of the line at all times. The C train runs local on the underground portion of the line at all times except late nights.

The line runs primarily along Fulton Street, Pitkin Avenue, and Liberty Avenue. The underground portion, which constitutes the majority of the line, was built for the city-owned Independent Subway System (IND), opening between 1936 and 1956. The elevated portion in Queens was originally part of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT)'s Fulton Street elevated line; the Elevated in Brooklyn was closed and demolished in stages with the opening of the subway line.