5 (New York City Subway service)

Lexington Avenue Express
A Manhattan-bound 5 train of R142s leaving Gun Hill Road.
Note: Dark dashed line indicates weekday rush hour service to Nereid Avenue and weekday service to Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College. Dashed pink line shows limited rush hour service to Utica Avenue or from New Lots Avenue.
Northern end	Dyre Avenue (All times) Nereid Avenue (limited rush hour service)
Southern end	East 180th Street (late nights) Bowling Green (weekends and mid-weekday evenings) Flatbush Avenue (weekdays) Utica Avenue and New Lots Avenue (limited rush hour service)
Stations	36 33 (rush hour service) 53 (limited services) 25 (weekend service) 6 (late night service)
Rolling stock	R142[1][2] (Rolling stock assignments subject to change)
Depot	East 180th Street Yard (fleet interchangeable with at 239th Street Yard)
Started service	October 27, 1904; 120 years ago (1904-10-27)
Route map Legend to Wakefield–241st Street via White Plains  5  (limited rush) Nereid Avenue 233rd Street 225th Street 219th Street Gun Hill Road Burke Avenue Allerton Avenue Pelham Parkway Bronx Park East  5  Eastchester–Dyre Avenue Baychester Avenue Gun Hill Road Pelham Parkway Morris Park  5  (nights) East 180th Street West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue 174th Street Freeman Street Simpson Street Intervale Avenue Prospect Avenue Jackson Avenue Third Avenue–149th Street 149th Street–Grand Concourse to Woodlawn via Jerome Avenue Manhattan & Brooklyn via Lenox Avenue 138th Street–Grand Concourse ​ to Pelham Bay Park or Parkchester via Pelham The Bronx Manhattan 125th Street bypassed local section 116th Street 110th Street 103rd Street 96th Street 86th Street northbound local only bypassed local section 77th Street 68th Street–Hunter College 59th Street bypassed local section 51st Street Grand Central–42nd Street bypassed local section 33rd Street 28th Street southbound only 23rd Street 18th Street 14th Street–Union Square bypassed local section Astor Place Bleecker Street Spring Street Canal Street Worth Street Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall  6   <6> ​ City Hall Fulton Street Wall Street Bowling Green  5  (late evenings & weekends) Uptown & the Bronx via Broadway-Seventh Avenue South Ferry loops South Ferry  1  Manhattan Brooklyn ​ Manhattan & Bronx via Broadway-Seventh Avenue Borough Hall northbound only for 4 and ​5 services bypassed local section Hoyt Street Nevins Street Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center bypassed local section Bergen Street Grand Army Plaza Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum Franklin Avenue–Medgar Evers College Nostrand Avenue Kingston Avenue Crown Heights–Utica Avenue  4  ( 5  limited) Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road Saratoga Avenue Rockaway Avenue Junius Street Pennsylvania Avenue Van Siclen Avenue New Lots Avenue  3  ( 2  ​​ 4  ​ 5  limited) President Street–Medgar Evers College Sterling Street Winthrop Street Church Avenue Beverly Road Newkirk Avenue–Little Haiti Brooklyn College–Flatbush Avenue  2  ( 5  weekdays) Legend Lines used by the Other services sharing tracks with the Unused lines, connections, or service patterns  5  Termini of services Cross-platform interchange Platforms on different levels This diagram: view talk edit

The 5 Lexington Avenue Express^[3] is a rapid transit service in the A Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored forest green since it uses the IRT Lexington Avenue Line in Manhattan.^[4]

The 5 train operates at all times. On weekdays from approximately 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., the 5 operates between Dyre Avenue in Eastchester, Bronx, and Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College in Flatbush, Brooklyn, making local stops in the Bronx and express stops in Manhattan and Brooklyn. During rush hours in the peak direction, 5 trains operate express in the Bronx between East 180th Street and Third Avenue–149th Street.^[a] Limited rush hour service originates and/or terminates at Nereid Avenue^[b] or Gun Hill Road/White Plains Road^[c] in the Bronx instead of Dyre Avenue, as well as either at Utica^[d] or New Lots Avenues^[e] in Brooklyn instead of Flatbush Avenue. The 5 short turns at Bowling Green in the Financial District of Manhattan on weekends and mid-weekday evenings, and operates as a shuttle between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street during late nights.

Historically, the 5 has run south to Crown Heights–Utica Avenue or New Lots Avenue. Its northern terminal was originally Wakefield–241st Street or East 180th Street. The section between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street, which was acquired from the defunct New York, Westchester and Boston Railway and started operating as a shuttle in 1941, was connected to the rest of the subway in 1957 and became part of the 5 in 1965. Since 1983, most trains run only to Bowling Green or Flatbush Avenue, although some rush-hour trains still run to/from Utica or New Lots Avenues. Peak service on White Plains Road was cut from 241st Street to 238th Street. During many weekends from 2017 to 2019, service ran between 241st Street and Flatbush Avenue, replacing 2 service.

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