- B (New York City Subway service)
infobox NYCS service
service=B
name=Sixth Avenue Express
north term=Bedford Park Boulevard Or 145th Street
south term=Brighton Beach
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note=note: dashed line shows rush hour only serviceThe B Sixth Avenue Express is a rapid transit service of the New York City Subway. It is colored orange on route signs, station signs, and the official subway map, since it runs over the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan.
The B service operates on weekdays only from approximately 6:00 to 23:00 (6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.). Normal service operates between 145th Street in Harlem, Manhattan to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn via Central Park West, Sixth Avenue, and the Manhattan Bridge to and from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, the B operates along the BMT Brighton Line.
During rush hours, the northern terminus for the B is extended to/from Bedford Park Boulevard in the Bronx. The B runs local in the Bronx and along Central Park West, and express along Sixth Avenue and in Brooklyn.
The NYCS|B is one of only two New York City Subway services that have two or more stations with the same name (the other being the NYCS|R train): It has two "Seventh Avenue" stations, one in Brooklyn (on Flatbush Avenue) and the other in Manhattan (on 53rd Street).
The following lines are used by the NYCS|B service:
*The designation NYCS|B was originally intended to designate express trains originating in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan and operating in Midtown Manhattan on the IND Sixth Avenue Line. However, the original NYCS|B service, beginning with the opening of the Sixth Avenue Line in 1940 and continuing until opening of the IND Chrystie Street Connection in 1967, ran only as a rush-hour local between 168th Street–Washington Heights and 34th Street–Herald Square. This service was designated BB in conformance with Independent Subway System protocol of using double letters to indicate local services.*Subsequent to the opening of the Chrystie Street Connection the former BB trains were combined with the former NYCS|T service of the BMT West End Line, creating a through service from Washington Heights to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue. This service was initially to have been signed BT but was simply signed NYCS|B instead.
*The partial closure of the Manhattan Bridge to subway service between 1986 and 2004 affected NYCS|B service by severing the connection between the northern and southern portions of the route. Beginning on April 26, 1986, the northern NYCS|B (via Sixth Avenue, informally called "Orange NYCS|B") and the southern NYCS|B (via the BMT Broadway Line, informally called "Yellow B") operated as two different services. The Orange NYCS|B more or less duplicated the former BB service, and the Yellow NYCS|B imitated the old NYCS|T service.
*The former NYCS|B service resumed December 11, 1988. On October 29, 1989, the IND 63rd Street Line opened, extending service to 21st Street–Queensbridge. NYCS|B service ran through this new line on weekends. A year later, it would also run here on weekday evenings.
*On April 30, 1995, the north side of the Manhattan Bridge was closed on midday and weekends until the following November. During this time, NYCS|B trains ran only between Atlantic Avenue–Pacific Street and Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue, running local on the BMT West End Line and express on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line.
*On February 22, 1998, NYCS|B service was cut to 57th Street/Sixth Avenue on evenings and weekends as a result of the reconstruction of the IND 63rd Street Line. Service on that line was replaced by a shuttle to the BMT Broadway Line.
*On March 1, 1998, the NYCS|B and the NYCS|C switched northern terminals, ending the connection between the NYCS|B and Washington Heights. The NYCS|B was now routed onto the IND Concourse Line during rush hours.
*In 2000, NYCS|B service was taken out of the IND 63rd Street Line for signal and track work. It now ran along Central Park West to 145th Street (Bedford Park Boulevard during rush hours) at all times except late nights.
*On July 22, 2001, NYCS|B service over the Manhattan Bridge was again interrupted and service recast similarly to the 1986 changes. However, this time the West End Line portion of the run was redesignated as the NYCS|W. NYCS|B service ran weekdays only, to Bedford Park Boulevard during rush hours and 145th Street during middays and evenings.
*On February 22, 2004, the Manhattan Bridge was fully reopened to subway service. NYCS|B trains were extended through Grand Street station and over the north tracks of the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn, replacing the NYCS|Q Diamond as the Brighton Express to Brighton Beach.
tations
For a more detailed station listing, see the articles on the lines listed above.
NYCS service legend
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References
* [http://members.aol.com/bdmnqr2/linehistory.html Line By Line History]
External links
* [http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/bline.htm MTA NYC Transit — B Sixth Avenue Express]
*PDFlink| [http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/pdf/tbcur.pdf MTA NYC Transit — B schedule] |156 KB
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