5 (New York City Subway service)
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The 5 Lexington Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored green on station signs, the New York City Subway map and on most IRT rolling stock equipment since it uses the Lexington Avenue Line through Manhattan. During rush hours 5 trains operate between Eastchester–Dyre Avenue or Nereid Avenue, the Bronx and Brooklyn College–Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn and operates express in the Bronx (in the peak direction), Manhattan and Brooklyn, with limited rush hour service to Utica or New Lots Avenues due to space limitations along the Nostrand Avenue segment south of Franklin Avenue. Limited rush hour service also operates on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line to clear congestion. During middays, evenings and weekdays, 5 trains operates between Eastchester–Dyre Avenue, the Bronx and Bowling Green, Manhattan and operates express in Manhattan and local in the Bronx. During late nights, 5 trains operates local between Eastchester–Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street, the Bronx; 2 trains replaces the 5 between East 180th Street and 149th Street–Grand Concourse in the Bronx and between Franklin and Flatbush Avenues in Brooklyn, and the 4 replaces the 5 between 149th Street–Grand Concourse, the Bronx and Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn.
The 5 was one of the last strongholds of the Redbird cars. Introduced in the mid-1950s to early 1960s, they ran on the line until 2001–2002 and were replaced by the Bombardier-built R142s. A few R142A sets have run on the 5 as well.
The following lines are used by the 5 service:
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| IRT White Plains Road Line from Nereid Avenue–238th Street to East 180th Street | local | rush hours in the peak direction |
| IRT Dyre Avenue Line (full line) | N/A | always |
| IRT White Plains Road Line from East 180th Street to 149th Street–Grand Concourse | local (express rush hours in the peak direction) | all but late nights |
| IRT Jerome Avenue Line south of 149th Street–Grand Concourse | local | all but late nights |
| IRT Lexington Avenue Line (full line) | express | all but late nights |
| IRT Joralemon Street Tunnel | N/A | rush hours only |
| IRT Eastern Parkway Line north of Franklin Avenue | express | rush hours only |
| IRT Nostrand Avenue Line (full line) | N/A | rush hours only |
| IRT Eastern Parkway Line south of Franklin Avenue | express | some rush-hour trips |
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[edit] Dyre Avenue Shuttle
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1967-1968 bullet (in a circle)
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The East 180th Street-Dyre Avenue Shuttle or Dyre Avenue Shuttle was established as a new subway service and full-time shuttle in 1941 between the former East 180th Street station of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway and Dyre Avenue, which was the last station of the NYW&B within New York City. Passengers had to make a walking transfer between the Dyre Avenue Line and the IRT White Plains Road Line at East 180th Street as the two lines did not share a common station and there was no track connection between the lines.
In 1957 a flyover connection opened between the East 180th Street station of the White Plains Road Line and the Dyre Avenue Line, enabling through service by trains of the 2 from Manhattan to Dyre Avenue. At the same time, the former NYW&B station was closed and off-hours Dyre Avenue Shuttles rerouted to the White Plains Road Line station. These shuttles were initially labeled 2 like the full-time service but were later signed 9, a number used for IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line skip-stop service.
The off-hours Dyre Avenue shuttle still operates, but trains on the line are signed 5, the same as the through service that now serves the line.
[edit] Background
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The section from East 180th Street to Dyre Avenue was once the mainline of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, a standard gauge electric commuter railroad built by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Upon its closure in 1937, the entire property was put up for sale.
In 1940, the City of New York purchased the section and began integrating the line into the system. The railroad north of the city line to White Plains and Port Chester was quickly dismantled. The section below East 180th Street to Greens Farm Junction was once used to interchange with the New Haven (and later Penn Central and Conrail) to bring subway cars and other equipment on and off the system. This section has since been removed, isolating this part of the subway from interchange.
Until the early 2000s, much of the 5 service's car fleet was made up of Redbird cars built in the mid 1950s and very early 1960s; these cars were retired by 2002. The trains included rollsigns with the numbers 8, 10 and 12, possibly to replace the diamond <5> express route. Today, the entire fleet is composed of the Bombardier-built R142s which feature digital signs, though space for only one digit is possible. However, there are no plans to change the line's nomenclature.
In 1995, rush hour service to 241st Street was cut back to Nereid Avenue-238th Street.
[edit] Stations
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Stops all times |
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Stops all times except late nights |
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Stops all times except rush hours in the peak direction |
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Stops rush hours only |
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Stops rush hours in the peak direction only |
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* Borough Hall is accessible in the northbound direction only. Atlantic Avenue is accessible only from two doors nearest to conductor.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- MTA NYC Transit - 5 Lexington Avenue Express (normal circle service)
- MTA NYC Transit - 5 Eastern Parkway/Lexington Avenue/Bronx Thru Express (rush-hour diamond service)
- MTA NYC Transit - 5 schedule PDF (286 KiB)
- New York, Westchester & Boston Railway history
