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Station complex
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Station serving two lines
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Express station
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In the New York City Subway there are several types of transfer stations:
Transfers are not limited to enclosed passageways. The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA), manager of the New York City Subway, also offers limited free transfers between subway lines that allow passengers to reenter the system's fare control. This was originally done through a paper ticketing system before it was replaced by the MetroCard. Now the only permanent MetroCard subway-to-subway transfers are between the Lexington Avenue/59th Street complex (4, 5, 6, <6>, N, R, and W trains) and the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station (F, <F>, N, Q, and R trains) in Manhattan and between the Junius Street (2, 3, 4, and 5 trains) and Livonia Avenue (L train) stations in Brooklyn. The contactless OMNY fare payment system installed in 2019-2020 supports the same free transfers as the MetroCard does.
Some paper transfers between specific subway stations and bus routes also existed prior to July 4, 1997, when the MetroCard allowed free system-wide subway–bus transfers with fewer restrictions. The Rockaway Parkway station on the BMT Canarsie Line (L train) offers a transfer to the B42 bus within the station's fare control, the only such transfer within the NYCTA.