M subway line (New York City)

6th Avenue Local
Geographical plan of New York with the M
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Middle Village - Metropolitan Ave Fresh Pond Ave Forest Ave Seneca Ave Wyckoff Avenue BMT Canarsie Line Knickerbocker Ave Central Ave BMT Jamaica Line Myrtle Ave BMT Myrtle Avenue Line Jamaica Express Flushing Ave Lorimer St. IND Crosstown Line Hewes Street Jamaica Express Marcy Ave former ferry feeder Driggs Avenue Broadway Ferry tram Williamsburg Bridge East River tram tram Essex St IND Sixth Avenue Line BMT Nassau Street Line Direction Brighton and Fourth Avenue Line IND Sixth Avenue Line Direction Culver Line IND Sixth Avenue Line IRT Lexington Avenue Line Broadway - Lafayette St (transition to Bleecker St ) IND Eighth Avenue Line West 4th Street IND Eighth Avenue Line PATH IND Sixth Avenue Line (Express) 9th Street PATH 14th Street crossing 6th Avenue , , PATH 23rd Street transition PATH 33rd Street PATH terminus 34th Street - Herald Sq Crossing IRT Sixth Avenue Line (Express) 42nd St - Bryant Park 47th-50th St - Rockefeller Center IND Queens Boulevard Line E. 5th Ave-53rd Street Lexington Ave-53rd Street 23rd St-Ely Ave R. Queens Plaza F. E and F (Express) 36th Street E and F (Express) - abbreviation Steinway St 46th Street Northern Boulevard E and F (Express) - abbreviation 65th Street Jackson Heights - Roosevelt Ave transition 74th St - Broadway , 7 Elmhurst Ave Grand Ave - Newtown Woodhaven Blvd. 63rd Drive - Rego Park 67th Ave Forest Hills - 71st Ave. E and F
Explanation
The M line runs from “Williamsburg Bridge” underground and as a local on the IND 6th Avenue Line .

The line M is a line of New York City Subway and runs from Middle Village Metropolitan Ave by Forest Hills - 71st Ave . At night, she goes only from Middle Village Metropolitan Ave by Myrtle Ave .

history

Train at Myrtle Avenue station

Train pulls into Hewes Street station

Line M was until recently a sister line to lines J and Z and operated on the Nassau Street Line, which was built between 1908 and 1916 by BMT, Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation . It ran from Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue to Broad Street in south Manhattan until 2010. At times it drove from Broad Street on a connection route, which is no longer used by regular services, to the Montague Street Tunnel (line R) and on to Brooklyn and on one of the three possible routes to Coney Island, most recently on the route of the line D.

Line V was introduced in 2001 as a replacement for Line F, which was no longer running under 53rd Street due to a new line. Line V ran consistently as a local from Forest Hills - 71st Avenue in Queens to 2nd Avenue, South Manhattan.

Due to financial problems of the operating company MTA, it was decided to connect line M with V, which also happened on June 28, 2010. For this purpose, the new combination line M uses a connecting curve that turns northward from the Nassau Street Line between Essex St and Bowery and meets the lines B and D shortly thereafter. This connecting curve was built on the occasion of a major renovation project in the area of ​​the Manhattan Bridge in the 1960s and was only used briefly by a K line.

Line MJ

The MJ line was an elevated railway between Middle Village Metropolitan Ave and Jay Street in Brooklyn, it used parts of today's M.

Before 1937, the MJ's forerunner trains ran over Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan, then they were pulled back to the Sands Street junction. On March 5, 1944, the Myrtle Avenue line west of Bridge-Jay Streets was closed, and a new terminal with a connection to the IND subway was opened there. In 1967, the Myrtle Avenue line was assigned the MJ sign . The MJ was only so named on maps and signs, the wagons on this route never had any signs.

After a fire, the western section of the Myrtle Avenue line was closed on October 4, 1969, the rest was left to the M line .

Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
see above BMT Jamaica Line Myrtle Ave M , J and Z Summer Av Tompkins Av Nostrand Av Franklin Av Washington Av Vanderbilt Av Navy St Bridge-Jay Streets Adams Street BMT Fulton Street Line Sands Street Brooklyn Bridge Park Row

Web links

Commons : M Subway Line (New York City)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Website of the MTA
• Very informative site about the New York Subway
• Timetable (PDF)