List Of New York City Subway Transfer Stations
In the New York City Subway there are several types of transfer stations:
- Station complex, i.e. two or more stations connected with a passageway inside fare control. The 468 stations of the New York City Subway are enumerated each station alone. When station complexes are considered to be one station each, the count of stations is 421.
- Station serving two or more lines. It may be a multi-level or adjacent-platform station and is considered to be one station as classified by the MTA. Typically each track in a station belongs to a certain line.
- Station serving two or more services. Different services may share tracks. These stations are not included in this article; see List of New York City Subway stations.
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| South Ferry – Whitehall Street is a complex formed by two stations connected with a passageway inside fare control |
Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets is a station serving two lines |
A typical express station serving two or three services |
Transfers are not limited to enclosed passageways. The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA), manager of the New York City Subway, also offers limited free transfers between subway lines that allow passengers to reenter the system's fare control. This was originally done through a paper ticketing system before it was replaced by the MetroCard. As of now, the only existing MetroCard subway-to-subway transfer is between the Lexington Avenue / 59th Street complex (4 5 6 <6> N Q R trains) and the Lexington Avenue – 63rd Street station (F train).
Some paper transfers between specific subway stations and bus routes also existed prior to July 4, 1997, when the MetroCard allowed free system-wide subway–bus transfers with fewer restrictions. The Rockaway Parkway station on the BMT Canarsie Line (L train) offers a transfer to the B42 bus within the station's fare control, the only such transfer within the NYCTA.
The system was created from the consolidation of three separate companies that merged in 1940: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). The earliest transfer stations were between lines of the same system: either the IRT, BMT or IND. The earliest free connection between lines that remains in existence is at Grand Central – 42nd Street between the IRT Flushing Line and the original IRT subway (now served by the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle), which opened on June 22, 1915. Some stations were constructed with passageways that connected different systems, such as the original IRT subway's (now IRT Lexington Avenue Line) Brooklyn Bridge station with the BMT Centre Street Loop Subway's (now BMT Nassau Street Line) Chambers Street station. On July 1, 1948, post-unification, many free transfers between the former systems were created coincident with the doubling of the fare from five to ten cents.
The most recently created station complex is the Jay Street – MetroTech complex in Brooklyn on the IND Culver Line, IND Fulton Street Line and BMT Fourth Avenue Line; opened on December 8, 2010. The Court Square (New York City Subway) complex in Queens, which opened in 1988 as a connection between the IND Queens Boulevard and IND Crosstown lines, was expanded by adding a passageway to the IRT Flushing Line on June 3, 2011. A free transfer from the Broadway – Lafayette Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line) to the uptown platform of the Bleecker Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) opened on September 25, 2012. A transfer to the downtown platform has existed since the 1950s.
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