N (New York City Subway service)

Broadway Express
An Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard-bound N train of R46s leaving 30th Avenue
Note: Dashed red line shows late night service via the Montague Street Tunnel. Dashed pink line shows limited rush hour service to/from 96th Street.
Northern end	Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard (all times) 96th Street–Second Avenue (limited rush hour service)
Southern end	Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue
Stations	28 (weekdays) 32 (weekends) 45 (late night service) 22 (limited service)
Rolling stock	R46 R68 R68A (fleet shared with the )[1][2] (Rolling stock assignments subject to change)
Depot	Coney Island Yard
Started service	June 22, 1915; 109 years ago (1915-06-22)
Route map Legend  N  ​ W  Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard Astoria Boulevard 30th Avenue Broadway 36th Avenue 39th Avenue ​ Main Street via Flushing Queensboro Plaza ​ Hudson Yards via Flushing Forest Hills via Queens Boulevard Queens Manhattan Lexington Avenue–59th Street Fifth Avenue–59th Street planned Second Avenue Subway  Q  ( N   R  limited rush) 96th Street 86th Street 72nd Street planned Second Avenue Subway Jamaica via 63rd Street Lexington Avenue–63rd Street Downtown & Brooklyn via 6th Avenue 57th Street–Seventh Avenue 49th Street ( northbound) Times Square–42nd Street switches to express tracks during weekdays 34th Street–Herald Square 28th Street 23rd Street 14th Street–Union Square Eighth Street–New York University Prince Street daytime via Manhattan Bridge late nights via Lower Manhattan Canal Street ​ Uptown & the Bronx via 6th Avenue City Hall Cortlandt Street Rector Street Whitehall Street–South Ferry  W  weekdays (  R  late nights) no regular service via Nassau Street Montague Tunnel Manhattan Brooklyn Court Street Jay Street–MetroTech Myrtle Avenue DeKalb Avenue ​ Brighton Beach & Coney Island via Brighton Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center Union Street Ninth Street Prospect Avenue 25th Street 36th Street Coney Island via West End 45th Street 53rd Street 59th Street Bay Ridge via 4th Avenue Eighth Avenue Fort Hamilton Parkway New Utrecht Avenue 18th Avenue 20th Avenue Bay Parkway Kings Highway Avenue U 86th Street  W  (limited rush hours) Manhattan & the Bronx via West End ​ Manhattan & Queens via Culver or Brighton Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue  N   D   F   <F>   Q  Legend Lines used by the and Other services sharing tracks with the and Unused lines, connections, or service patterns  N  Termini of services Cross-platform interchange Platforms on different levels This diagram: view talk edit

The N Broadway Express^[3] is a rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet," is colored yellow, since it uses the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan.^[4]

The N operates at all times between Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria, Queens, and Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn, via the BMT Astoria Line in Queens, the Broadway Line in Manhattan, the south side of the Manhattan Bridge, and the BMT Fourth Avenue and Sea Beach Lines in Brooklyn. North of 57th Street, limited rush hour service operates via the Second Avenue Subway, originating and terminating at 96th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan instead of Ditmars Boulevard.^[5][3][6]

During the daytime on weekdays, the N runs express between 34th Street–Herald Square in Manhattan and 59th Street in Brooklyn and local elsewhere. Local service in Manhattan is provided by the R and W, the latter of which is internally staffed and scheduled as part of the N.^[7] Weekend daytime service is the same as weekday service, except that the N makes all stops in Manhattan between Herald Square and Canal Street. During late nights, the N makes all stops along its entire route and uses the Montague Street Tunnel to travel between Manhattan and Brooklyn.^[a]

The N was originally the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation's 4 service, running along the BMT Sea Beach Line to the Manhattan Bridge. The 4 used the BMT Nassau Street Line in Lower Manhattan from 1915 to 1917, after which it ran express on the BMT Broadway Line. The 4 became the N in 1961. The N ran local in Queens along the IND Queens Boulevard Line to Forest Hills–71st Avenue from 1976 until 1987, when it switched terminals with the R. From 1986 to 2004, reconstruction on the Manhattan Bridge forced the N to run local on the Broadway Line via the Montague Street Tunnel.

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