7 (New York City Subway Service)
The 7 Flushing Local and 7 Flushing Express are rapid transit services of the New York City Subway, providing local and express services along the full length of the IRT Flushing Line. The services are colored raspberry on station signs, route signs and the official subway map with local service denoted by a 7 in a circular logo, and express service by a 7 in a diamond-shaped logo. Both services operate between Main Street in Flushing, Queens and Times Square in Midtown Manhattan.
Local service operates at all times. Express service runs weekdays from 6:30 to 10:00 a.m. going to Times Square and 3:00 to 10:00 p.m. (15:00 to 22:00) going to Main Street. "Super Express" service to Manhattan is also provided after New York Mets games weeknights and weekends at Citi Field and US Open (tennis) games: starting at Mets – Willets Point and operating express to Times Square, also bypassing Junction Boulevard, Hunters Point Avenue and Vernon Boulevard – Jackson Avenue.
The 7 operates with 11-car trains, more than any other New York City Subway service. However, these trains are not the longest in the system, since a train of 11 "A" Division cars is only 561 feet (171 m) long, while a standard "B" Division train (consisting of ten 60 foot cars or eight 75 foot cars) is 600 feet (180 m) long.
The 7 is the only "A" Division service that runs to the borough of Queens and nicknamed the "International Express," because it travels through several different ethnic neighborhoods populated by U.S. immigrants, especially along Roosevelt Avenue. This name is not official, nor is the title used in day to day operations.
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