New York City Subway lines

The 60th Street Tunnel Connection (also known as the 11th Street Connector ** ) is a short connecting line of the New York City Subway System connecting the 60th Street Tunnel under the East River (which connects to the BMT Broadway Line) with the IND Queens Boulevard Line west of Queens Plaza in Long Island City. The connector does not have any stations. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT 60th Street Tunnel Connection"

The BMT 63rd Street Line is a rapid transit line of the division of the New York City Subway system. It runs from a connection with the BMT Broadway Line at 57th Street and 7th Avenue north and east to Lexington Avenue-63rd Street, where it connects to the IND 63rd Street Line and ends. There are plans to continue it east and north to merge with the planned Second Avenue Line. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT 63rd Street Line"

The Astoria Line is a rapid transit line of the division of the New York City Subway, serving the neighborhood of Astoria, Queens. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Astoria Line"

The Brighton Line is a rapid transit line of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, New York City. Local service is provided full time by Q trains and express service provided weekdays by the B train. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Brighton Line"

The Broadway Line is a rapid transit line of the division of the New York City Subway system. The line was built as a part of the Broadway-Fourth Avenue Subway and is also known as the Broadway-BMT Line and the Broadway (BMT) Subway. Trains of the and serve the express run via the Manhattan Bridge and the and lines serve the local (the R extends into Brooklyn via the Montague Street Tunnel; the W terminates in Manhattan at Whitehall Street ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Broadway Line"

The Canarsie Line, sometimes called the 14th Street-Canarsie Line, is a rapid transit line of the Division of the New York City Subway system, named after its Brooklyn terminus in the Canarsie neighborhood. Trains of the L service run over it, and are assigned the color gray. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Canarsie Line"

The BMT Culver Line is a rapid transit line of the division of the New York City Subway, running from Coney Island through Gravesend to Ditmas Avenue, where it becomes the IND Culver Line. Culver Line was originally the popular name of the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad (owned by Andrew Culver), an excursion railroad line originally opened from a station at the eastern side of Greenwood Cemetery to Coney Island in Kings County, New York (now Brooklyn, New York) in 1875. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Culver Line"

The Fourth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the division of the New York City Subway, mainly running under 4th Avenue in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Fourth Avenue Line"

The Franklin Avenue Line (also known as the Franklin Avenue Shuttle and the Brighton-Franklin Line) is a rapid transit line of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, New York City. All service is provided full time by S Franklin Avenue Shuttle trains. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Franklin Avenue Line"

The Jamaica Line is a rapid transit line of the Division of the New York Subway. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Jamaica Line"

The Myrtle Avenue Line, also called the Myrtle Avenue El., is a fully elevated line of the New York City Subway, as part of the division. The extant line is the final remnant of one of the original Brooklyn elevated railroads. The remnant line operates as a spur branch from the Jamaica Line to Bushwick, Ridgewood and Middle Village, and terminates at its original Eastern terminal across the street from Lutheran Cemetery. Until 1969, the line continued west into downtown Brooklyn, even earlier continuing on to the Brooklyn Bridge to a terminal at Park Row in Manhattan. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Myrtle Avenue Line"

The Nassau Street Line is a rapid transit line of the Division of the New York City Subway system. Trains of the Z serve the express run and the J and mid-day M lines the local. Trains using this mainline are assigned the color brown. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Nassau Street Line"

The Sea Beach Line is a rapid transit line of the division of the New York City Subway, connecting the BMT Fourth Avenue Line subway via a four-track wide open cut to Coney Island in Brooklyn. It has at times hosted the fastest express service between Manhattan and Coney Island, but now carries only local trains. On May 29, 2005, Sea Beach trains started running to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue again after several years of truncation to Gravesend-86th Street. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT Sea Beach Line"

The West End Line, now a subway line in Brooklyn, New York City, is a branch line from the Broadway ( Manhattan)-Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) subway, serving the communities of Borough Park, New Utrecht, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Coney Island. It is served full time by the , and rush hours by the , which provides direct access to the financial district. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMT West End Line"

The IND 63rd Street Line is a rapid transit line of the division of the New York City Subway system. It runs from a connection with the IND Sixth Avenue Line at 47th-50th Streets-Rockefeller Center east under the East River through the 63rd Street Tunnel to the IND Queens Boulevard Line in Queens. Crossover tracks connect it to the BMT 63rd Street Line south (west) of the Lexington Avenue station. ...more on Wikipedia about "IND 63rd Street Line"

The Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Line, often referred to as simply the Crosstown Line, is a rapid transit line of the division of the New York City Subway. Along with the Franklin Avenue Shuttle and Rockaway Park Shuttle, it is one of the 3 lines that do not carry trains into Manhattan. ...more on Wikipedia about "IND Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Line"

The Chrystie Street Connection is a major connecting line of the New York City Subway System, and is one of the few connections between lines of the BMT and IND divisions. As a road, Chrystie Street extends northward to become Manhattan's Second Avenue, and the Chrystie Street Connection is the only part of the long-planned Second Avenue Line ever to be completed and opened to service of any kind. ...more on Wikipedia about "IND Chrystie Street Connection"

The Concourse Line is a subway branch line of the New York City Subway system, extending from 205th Street in the Norwood section of the Bronx to join with the Eighth Avenue Line at 145th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. ...more on Wikipedia about "IND Concourse Line"

The IND Culver Line is a rapid transit line of the Division of the New York City Subway, extending from the Rutgers Street Tunnel under the East River to the BMT Culver Line at Ditmas Avenue (which continues to Coney Island). It serves the communities of Downtown Brooklyn, South Brooklyn, Red Hook, Park Slope and Kensington all in Brooklyn. ...more on Wikipedia about "IND Culver Line"

The Eighth Avenue Line is the original rapid transit line of the Independent Subway System (IND), now run by the New York City Transit Authority as part of the New York City Subway system. For more than three decades from its inception in 1932, many New Yorkers called the entire IND system the Eighth Avenue Subway, though this was never its official name. Except south of World Trade Center station (where the local tracks end), the whole line is quadruple-tracked, with one local and one express track in each direction. The northern section of the Eighth Avenue Line (north of 145th Street) was once known as the Washington Heights Line. To this accord, trains (R32, and R38 only) have rollsigns designations that read "Washington Heights-8 Avenue-Fulton". ...more on Wikipedia about "IND Eighth Avenue Line"

The IND Fulton Street Line is a rapid transit line of the Division of the New York City Subway, extending from the Cranberry Street Tunnel under the East River through all of central Brooklyn to a terminus in Ozone Park, Queens. The IND Rockaway Line branches off of it. ...more on Wikipedia about "IND Fulton Street Line"

The Queens Boulevard Line is a fully underground line of the New York City Subway, as part of the division. The line provides an east-west connection across Manhattan at 53rd Street and east through Queens to Jamaica. The part in Manhattan was once known as the 53rd Street Line. Except west of Queens Plaza, the line is quadruple-tracked, with express service on the inner tracks. It is also one of two lines (the IND Culver Line being the other) that has a shorter path for the express tracks than the local tracks. It is the second busiest line in the system, the busiest being the IRT Lexington Avenue Line. ...more on Wikipedia about "IND Queens Boulevard Line"

The Sixth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the division of the New York City Subway system, running mostly under Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Opened to service in 1940, it was the last IND trunk line to open. ...more on Wikipedia about "IND Sixth Avenue Line"

The Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line, also known as the IRT West Side Line, is one of the lines of the division of the New York City Subway. It runs along the west side of Manhattan and into the Bronx; the part north of 42nd Street was built as part of the first subway in New York. The line serves places such as Lincoln Center, Columbia University, and City College. The line is often referred to as the 1 'n' 9 due to the and services that operated over the whole line. The designation along with skip-stop service last ran May 27, 2005; this skip-stop service was only in upper Manhattan during rush hours. ...more on Wikipedia about "IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line"

The Dyre Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the New York City Subway, as part of the division. The line serves part of the northern Bronx, splitting from the IRT White Plains Road Line at East 180th Street. ...more on Wikipedia about "IRT Dyre Avenue Line"

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