It runs under Sixth Avenue and Central Park, turning east under 63rd Street and running through the 63rd Street Tunnel under the East River, with stations at Main Street on Roosevelt Island and at 21st Street under 41st Avenue in Queens. The IND line begins as a northward continuation of the IND Sixth Avenue Line at 57th Street station. One is chained as part of the Independent Subway System (IND), and the other is chained as part of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT). The 63rd Street Lines comprise two physical pairs of trackage each track pair's mileage is measured via different subway chaining schemes. Sea Beach Local/ Fourth Avenue Express, Broadway Express, Second Avenue Local ( )įourth Avenue Local, Broadway Local, Second Avenue Local ( ) The following services use the 63rd Street Lines: Service informationĬulver Local, Sixth Avenue Local, Queens Boulevard Expressīrighton Local, Broadway Express, Second Avenue Local The BMT 63rd Street Line in Manhattan was only used for regular service starting in 2017, when the Second Avenue Subway's first phase opened. The IND 63rd Street Line between Queens and Manhattan opened on October 29, 1989, and was connected to the Queens Boulevard Line on December 16, 2001. The 63rd Street Tunnel lay unused for over a decade, and its lower level, intended for future Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) service, was completed solely to support the subway line above it. After these plans were abandoned in the mid-1970s, it was commonly referred to as a "subway to nowhere" because it ended one stop into Queens, without any infrastructure connecting to other subway lines in Queens.
The IND 63rd Street Line was originally planned to be extended further east into Queens as a super-express bypass of the IND Queens Boulevard Line. These lines were conceived as part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 1968 expansion plans, and along with the Archer Avenue lines and a small section of the Second Avenue Subway, they were the only portions of the plan to be completed before it was scaled back due to fiscal issues. The crossover between the lines has been used in the past during service disruptions as well as during the Manhattan Bridge closures in the late 1990s. Also known as the Second Avenue Connection, : 128 it links the BMT Broadway Line to the Second Avenue Subway, both in Manhattan. The northern, BMT, line is served by the Q train at all times, although a limited number of N and R trains also serve the line during rush hours. It uses the upper level of the bi-level 63rd Street Tunnel to travel under the East River between Manhattan and Queens. The IND line, the southern of the two lines, is served by F trains at all times it connects the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan to the IND Queens Boulevard Line in Queens. Crossover connections between each line's respective tracks are located just to the west of the Lexington Avenue station. The two lines run under 63rd Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, with a cross-platform interchange at the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station.Įach line consists of two tracks in a stacked configuration, with the southbound tracks of each line parallel to each other on the upper level, while the northbound tracks are parallel on the lower level.
The IND 63rd Street Line and BMT 63rd Street Line, also referred to as the 63rd Street Crosstown, Crosstown Route, or Route 131-A, are two rapid transit lines of the B Division of the New York City Subway system.
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