The

New York City Subway The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Opened on October ...

is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of

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the Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New ...

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

, and

Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...

. Operated by the

New York City Transit Authority The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, or simply Transit, and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a New York state public-benefit corporations, public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York (state), New ...

under the

Metropolitan Transportation Authority The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York. The MTA is the largest public transit authority in th ...

of New York, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in the United States and the seventh busiest in the world, with 5.225 million daily riders. The system's

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qualifies it to have the largest number of rapid transit stations in the world. Three rapid transit companies merged in 1940 to create the present New York City Subway system: the

Interborough Rapid Transit Company The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the private operator of New York City's original underground subway line that opened in 1904, as well as earlier elevated railways and additional rapid transit lines in New York City. The IRT ...

(IRT), the

Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation The Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) was an urban transit holding company, based in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, and incorporated in 1923. The system was sold to the city in 1940. Today, together with the IND sub ...

(BMT), and the

Independent Subway System The Independent Subway System (IND or ISS), formerly known as the Independent City-Owned Subway System (ICOSS) or the Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (ICORTR), was a rapid transit rail system in New York City that is now part of th ...

(IND).

Stations with the same name along the same services

Many stations share the same name. These stations are disambiguated by the line each of them is on. The following stations are served by the same numbered or lettered trains. * The 5 on each of its two northern branches in the Bronx stops at two stations that bear the same name: Gun Hill Road on the Dyre Avenue Line and the White Plains Road Line, and Pelham Parkway on the Dyre Avenue Line and the White Plains Road Line. * The B stops at two stations named Seventh Avenue, located along the

BMT Brighton Line The BMT Brighton Line, also known as the Brighton Beach Line, is a rapid transit line in the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Local service is provided at all times by the Q train, but is joined ...

in Brooklyn and the

IND Sixth Avenue Line The IND Sixth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in the United States. It runs mainly under Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, and continues south to Brooklyn. The B, D, F, and M trains, which use th ...

in Manhattan. * The D stops at three stations with 50th Street in the name: 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center on the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan, 50th Street on the West End Line in Brooklyn, and Bay 50th Street, also on the West End Line. * The E stops at two stations with 23rd Street in the name: 23rd Street on the Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan and Court Square–23rd Street on the Queens Boulevard Line in Queens. * The M stops at two stations with Myrtle Avenue in the name:

Myrtle Avenue Myrtle Avenue is a street that runs from Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn to Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens, in New York City, United States. Route description Queens Myrtle Avenue has been a major thoroughfare since the early ...

on the BMT Jamaica Line and Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, both in Brooklyn. It also stops at two stations with 23rd Street in the name: 23rd Street along the Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan and Court Square–23rd Street on the Queens Boulevard Line in Queens. * The N stops at two stations with Astoria in the name:

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and Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard, located adjacent to one another on the BMT Astoria Line. * The R stops at two stations with 36th Street in the name: one along the Fourth Avenue Line in Brooklyn and one along the Queens Boulevard Line in Queens.

Lists of stations by borough

The four lists of New York City Subway stations by borough have additional details regarding services, accessibility, and transfers. *

List of New York City Subway stations in the Bronx The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Operated by the New York City Transit Authority under the Metro ...

List of New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Operated by the New York City Transit Authority under the Metro ...

* List of New York City Subway stations in Manhattan *

List of New York City Subway stations in Queens The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Operated by the New York City Transit Authority under the Metro ...

List of stations

Permanently closed subway stations, including those that have been demolished, are not included in the list below. Colorboxes depict trunk line stations in Manhattan.

List of station complexes with differing station names

Notes

References

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