S (New York City Subway Service)
Three services in the New York City Subway are designated as a dark slate gray S (shuttle). These are short services that connect passengers to longer services:
- Franklin Avenue Shuttle (internally referred to as the S)
- 42nd Street Shuttle (also called the Grand Central/Times Square Shuttle) (internally referred to as the 0)
- Rockaway Park Shuttle (also called Rockaway Shuttle) (internally referred to as the H)
The following services run as shuttles during off hours but retain their regular service designations:
- 5 late nights (Dyre Avenue Shuttle), originally SS
- A late nights (Lefferts Boulevard Shuttle)
- M weekends and late nights (Myrtle Avenue Shuttle), originally SS
- R late nights (Bay Ridge/Fourth Avenue Shuttle)
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