New york city subway

New York City Subway

Rapid transit system in New York City

New York City Subway

Top: A 1 local train made up of ten Bombardier R62A cars enters the 207th Street Station of the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
Bottom: An E local train made up of ten Alstom R160A cars leaves the Queens Plaza station of the IND Queens Boulevard Line.

OwnerCity of New York
Area servedThe Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens
LocaleNew York City
Transit typeRapid transit
Number of lines36 lines[note 1]
28 services
(1 planned)[note 2]
Number of stations472[1] (MTA total count)[note 3][note 4]
423 unique stations[note 4][1] (when compared to international standards)
14 planned[note 3]
Annual ridership2,027,286,000[6]: 2 [note 5] (2023)
Websitenew.mta.info/agency/new-york-city-transit
Began operationOctober 27, 1904; 120 years ago (1904-10-27)
(Original subway)

July 3, 1868; 156 years ago

How to Use the NYC Subway

Navigating the New York subway system can seem daunting to visitors to NYC, especially those who don't use mass transit in their daily lives.

As a New Yorker who has used the subway for decades, I can tell you that once you get the hang of it, you will have no problem!

I hear all the time from guests on my local walking tours that with some advance reading combined with that first ride or two, they have been able to navigate the subway with ease.

This post contains helpful tips on using the NYC subway system so that you will feel like locals in no time!

In this video, my fellow tour guide Katie here at Tours by Foot NYC, goes over some of these tips.

OK. Let's get to the tips!


The New York City public transit system run by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) is one of the most comprehensive metro systems in the world.

You can use it to travel between four of the five boroughs - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

The fifth borough, Staten Island, can be reached by a free ferry and then traversed by a MTA rapid transit trai

New York City Transit Authority

Bus and subway service operator

The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA,[2] or simply Transit,[3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest and largest transit system in North America,[4] the NYCTA has a daily ridership of 8 million trips (over 2.5 billion annually).[5]

The NYCTA operates the following systems:

Name

As part of establishing a common corporate identity, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1994 assigned popular names to each of its subsidiaries and affiliates.[6] The New York City Transit Authority is now known popularly as MTA New York City Transit (NYCT), (or more specifically on the vehicles, MTA New York City Bus and MTA New York City Subway), though the former remains its legal name for documents and contracts. Newer contracts an

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