Station Listing
| Station service legend | |
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| Stops all times | |
| Stops all times except late nights | |
| Stops late nights only | |
| Stops weekdays only | |
| Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction | |
| Stops rush hours only | |
| Stops rush hours in the peak direction only | |
| Neighborhood (approximate) |
Station | Tracks | Services | Opened | Transfers and notes | |
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| Begins as a merge of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line (4 5 ) and IRT Pelham Line (6 <6>) | ||||||
| Lexington Avenue Tunnel | ||||||
| East Harlem | 125th Street | all | 4 5 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 | Connection to Metro-North Railroad at Harlem – 125th Street M60 bus to LaGuardia Airport |
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| 116th Street | local | 4 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 | |||
| 110th Street | local | 4 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 | |||
| 103rd Street | local | 4 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 | |||
| Upper East Side | 96th Street | local | 4 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 | ||
| 86th Street | all | 4 5 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 | |||
| 77th Street | local | 4 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 | |||
| 68th Street – Hunter College | local | 4 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 | |||
| Midtown Manhattan | 59th Street | all | 4 5 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 (1962, express) |
N Q R (BMT Broadway Line at Lexington Avenue / 59th Street) MetroCard-only transfer to F (IND 63rd Street Line at Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street) Roosevelt Island Tramway This station was originally a local station. The lower level for express trains was opened in 1962. |
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| 51st Street | local | 4 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 | E M (IND Queens Boulevard Line at Lexington Avenue – 53rd Street) | ||
| Grand Central – 42nd Street | all | 4 5 6 <6> | July 17, 1918 | 7 <7> (IRT Flushing Line) S (42nd Street Shuttle) Connection to Metro-North Railroad at Grand Central Terminal |
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| merge on southbound local track to IRT 42nd Street Shuttle (no regular service) | ||||||
| 33rd Street | local | 4 6 <6> | October 27, 1904 | M34 / M34A Select Bus Service | ||
| Gramercy | 28th Street | local | 4 6 <6> | October 27, 1904 | ||
| 23rd Street | local | 4 6 <6> | October 27, 1904 | |||
| 18th Street | local | October 27, 1904 | closed November 7, 1948 | |||
| Union Square | 14th Street – Union Square | all | 4 5 6 <6> | October 27, 1904 | L (BMT Canarsie Line) N Q R (BMT Broadway Line) originally 14th Street |
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| East Village | Astor Place | local | 4 6 <6> | October 27, 1904 | ||
| NoHo | Bleecker Street | local | 4 6 <6> | October 27, 1904 | B D F M (IND Sixth Avenue Line at Broadway – Lafayette Street) | |
| Little Italy | Spring Street | local | 4 6 <6> | October 27, 1904 | Abandoned trackway exists between express tracks | |
| Chinatown | Canal Street | local | 4 6 <6> | October 27, 1904 | N R (BMT Broadway – Main line) N Q (BMT Broadway – Manhattan Bridge line) J Z (BMT Nassau Street Line) |
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| Civic Center | Worth Street | local | October 27, 1904 | closed September 1, 1962 | ||
| Brooklyn Bridge – City Hall | all | 4 5 6 <6> | October 27, 1904 | J Z (BMT Nassau Street Line at Chambers Street) originally Brooklyn Bridge, then Brooklyn Bridge–Worth Street |
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| local tracks leave the alignment of the express tracks; local trains short turn (6 <6>) via the loop | ||||||
| City Hall | loop | October 27, 1904 | Closed December 31, 1945; currently used for local trains to short turn with no station stop. Lexington Avenue Line local trains stopped at station from 1904 to 1945 except late nights, when trains continued to South Ferry. | |||
| express trains continue (4 5 ) | ||||||
| Financial District | Fulton Street | express | 4 5 | January 16, 1905 | A C (IND Eighth Avenue Line) J Z (BMT Nassau Street Line) 2 3 (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line) Connection to PATH at World Trade Center Currently, only the downtown platform is wheelchair accessible through a new entrance at Broadway and Dey Street. The uptown platform, and transfers to other lines, are not currently accessible. |
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| Wall Street | express | 4 5 | June 12, 1905 | |||
| Bowling Green | express | 4 5 | July 10, 1905 | M15 Select Bus Service Staten Island Ferry at South Ferry |
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| Splits to Brooklyn via the Joralemon Street Tunnel (4 5 ) to become the IRT Eastern Parkway Line Express tracks | ||||||
| Financial District | express train short turn (5 ) via both loops | |||||
| South Ferry | both loops | July 10, 1905 | Inner platform closed February 12, 1977; currently used for express trains to short turn with no station stop. Lexington Avenue Line trains used the outer platform from July 10, 1905 to July 1, 1918 and from 1950 to February 12, 1977. The outer platform closed on March 16, 2009; which allows Lexington Avenue Line trains to again use both loop tracks. | |||
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