Current and former R services The R Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored yellow, since it uses the Broadway-BMT Line downtown. R service uses the following lines:
| Line
| Tracks
| When
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| IND Queens Boulevard Line from Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Queens Plaza | local | all but late nights
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| 60th Street Tunnel Connection | N/A | all but late nights
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| BMT 60th Street Tunnel | N/A | all but late nights
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| BMT Broadway-BMT Line | local | all but late nights
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| BMT Montague Street Tunnel | N/A | all but late nights
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| BMT Fourth Avenue Line to 36th Street | local | all but late nights
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| BMT Fourth Avenue Line from 36th Street to Bay Ridge-95th Street | local | all (late nights, skips 53rd Street and 45th Street northbound)
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Former uses
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 (EE 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 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 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. R service was brought back, in its current form, on October 28.[1] (http://nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/maps/historical/map-2001-10-28.gif)
Station listing
For a more detailed station listing, see the articles on the individual lines.
| Station
| When
| Services
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| Forest Hills-71st Avenue | all but late nights | E F G R V (G only off-hours)
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| 67th Avenue | all but late nights | G R V (G only off-hours)
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| 63rd Drive-Rego Park | all but late nights | G R V (G only off-hours)
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| Woodhaven Boulevard-Queens Center Mall | all but late nights | G R V (G only off-hours)
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| Grand Avenue-Newtown | all but late nights | G R V (G only off-hours)
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| Elmhurst Avenue | all but late nights | G R V (G only off-hours)
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| Roosevelt Avenue-Jackson Heights | all but late nights | E F G R V (G only off-hours) 7
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| 65th Street | all but late nights | G R V (G only off-hours)
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| Northern Boulevard | all but late nights | G R V (G only off-hours)
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| 46th Street | all but late nights | G R V (G only off-hours)
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| Steinway Street | all but late nights | G R V (G only off-hours)
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| 36th Street | all but late nights | G R V (G only off-hours)
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| Queens Plaza | all but late nights | E G R V (G only off-hours)
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| Lexington Avenue-59th Street | all but late nights | N R W 4 5 6
F (MetroCard)
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| Fifth Avenue-59th Street | all but late nights | N R W
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| 57th Street | all but late nights | N Q R W
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| 49th Street | all but late nights | N R W
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| 42nd Street-Times Square | all but late nights | N Q R W 7 S 1 2 3 <9> A C E
Port Authority Bus Terminal
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| 34th Street-Herald Square | all but late nights | N Q R W B D F V
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| 28th Street | all but late nights | N R W
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| 23rd Street | all but late nights | N R W
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| 14th Street-Union Square | all but late nights | N Q R W L 4 5 6
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| 8th Street-NYU | all but late nights | N R W
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| Prince Street | all but late nights | N R W
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| Canal Street | all but late nights | R W N Q 6 J M <Z>
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| City Hall | all but late nights | R W
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| Cortlandt Street | all but late nights | R W
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| Rector Street | all but late nights | R W
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| Whitehall Street | all but late nights | R W
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| Court Street-Borough Hall | all but late nights | <M> R
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| Lawrence Street-Metro Tech | all but late nights | <M> R
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| DeKalb Avenue | all but late nights | <M> R B Q
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| Pacific Street | all but late nights | D <M> N R
LIRR
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| Union Street | all but late nights | M R
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| Ninth Street | all but late nights | M R F
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| Prospect Avenue | all but late nights | M R
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| 25th Street | all but late nights | M R
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| 36th Street | all | D <M> N R
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| 45th Street | all (southbound)
all but late nights (northbound) | R
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| 53rd Street | all (southbound)
all but late nights (northbound) | R
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| 59th Street | all | N R
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| Bay Ridge Avenue | all | R
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| 77th Street | all | R
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| 86th Street | all | R
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| Bay Ridge-95th Street | all | R
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External links
References
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