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"C" train symbol
Eighth Avenue Local
A 168th Street-bound R179 C train at West Fourth Street
Map of the "C" train
Northern end168th Street
Southern endEuclid Avenue
Stations40
Rolling stockR46
R179
R211T[1][2]
(Rolling stock assignments subject to change)
Depot207th Street Yard (R179 only)
Pitkin Yard (R46, R211)
Started serviceSeptember 10, 1932; 92 years ago (1932-09-10)
Route map

Legend
"A" train to Inwood–207th Street via 8th Avenue
 Down arrow  C 
168th Street
163rd Street–Amsterdam Avenue
155th Street
"B" train​"D" train the Bronx via Concourse
 145th Street
135th Street
125th Street
116th Street
Cathedral Parkway–110th Street
103rd Street
96th Street
86th Street
81st Street–Museum of Natural History
72nd Street
59th Street–Columbus Circle
"B" train​"D" train Downtown & Brooklyn via 53rd Street
"E" train East Side & Queens via 53rd Street
 50th Street
(Disabled access southbound)
 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal Port Authority Bus Terminal
34th Street–Penn Station NJ Transit Amtrak
23rd Street
14th Street
West Fourth Street–Washington Square
Spring Street
Canal Street
World Trade Center Port Authority Trans-Hudson | Chambers Street
Up arrow  E 
 Fulton Street
Manhattan
Brooklyn
 High Street
"F" train"F" express train​ Manhattan & Queens via 6th Avenue
 Jay Street–MetroTech
"F" train"F" express train​"G" train Church Avenue & Coney Island via Culver
New York Transit Museum (formerly Court Street)
 Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets
"G" train Queens via Crosstown
Lafayette Avenue
Clinton–Washington Avenues
Franklin Avenue
Nostrand Avenue
Kingston–Throop Avenues
Utica Avenue
Ralph Avenue
Rockaway Avenue
Broadway Junction
Liberty Avenue
Van Siclen Avenue
Shepherd Avenue
Euclid Avenue
Up arrow  C 
"A" train Ozone Park or the Rockaways via Fulton Street
Legend
 Lines used by the "C" train
Other services sharing tracks with the "C" train
Unused lines, connections, or service patterns
 C 
 Termini of services
Cross-platform interchange
Platforms on different levels
This diagram:

The C Eighth Avenue Local[3] is a 19-mile-long (31 km)[4]: 1  rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is blue since it is a part of the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan.[5]

The C operates at all times except late nights between 168th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and Euclid Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, making all stops in-between. During late night hours, the A train, which runs express along the entire C route during daytime hours, makes all stops.

Historically, most C service ran only during rush hours, along the IND Concourse Line to Bedford Park Boulevard in the Bronx and later along the IND Rockaway Line to Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street in Queens. Prior to 1985, the local C service was referred to as the CC, with the C designation reserved for a complementary express service that was discontinued in 1949. The CC was once the only route to serve the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens in a single trip. Outside of rush hour, local service in Manhattan was usually provided by the AA, later relabeled K, which ran between 168th Street and Chambers Street/World Trade Center. In 1988, the K and C were consolidated into one service, and during the 1990s, the C's routing was altered to create the current service pattern. A 2015 study of the route found that the C had a daily ridership of 250,000.[4]: 1 

History

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Brooklyn-bound R46 C train at 168th Street

Original IND service

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The AA and CC services were the predecessors to the current C service. A and AA service began on September 10, 1932, with the opening of the first line of the Independent Subway System (IND), the Eighth Avenue Line. The IND used single letters to refer to express services and double letters for local services. The A ran express and the AA ran local from 168th Street to Chambers Street/World Trade Center, known at the time as Hudson Terminal. The AA ran at all times, and it was extended to 207th Street during nights and on Sundays when the A did not run.[6] On February 1, 1933, the AA was extended to the newly-opened Jay Street–Borough Hall station when the A did not run, continuing to terminate at Chambers Street when the A did run.[7][8][9]

The C and CC services began operation on July 1, 1933, when the IND Concourse Line opened. The CC provided local service between Bedford Park Boulevard and Hudson Terminal during rush hours, and was extended to 205th Street during non-rush hours. It replaced the AA as Eighth Avenue Local. The C ran express, from 205th Street to Bergen Street in Brooklyn during rush hours, running express on the Concourse Line in the peak direction.[10][11] C trains left Bergen Street between 3:30 p.m. and 6:50 p.m., and left 205th Street between 6:33 a.m. and 11:26 a.m. C trains ran every 4 minutes during rush hours in the peak direction, and every 5 minutes in the reverse-peak direction, and ran with 6- and 7-car trains. During morning rush hours, CC trains operated to 205th Street until 7:30 a.m., and to Tremont Avenue between 7:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.. PM rush hour CC trains terminated at Bedford Park Boulevard, and several other trains terminated and originated at Bedford Park Boulevard. CC trains ran every 4 minutes during rush hours, 5 minutes during middays, every 5 and 6 trains during evenings, and every 12 minutes overnight. Trains ran with 5 cars during rush hours, and with 3 cars other times.[12] On August 17, 1933, CC trains stopped terminating at Tremont Avenue.[13] Beginning August 19, 1933, C service was cut back from Bergen Street, but started operating during non-rush hours. At the same time, CC service was cut back from 205th Street during non-rush hours.[10]

On January 1, 1936, C service was extended to Jay Street–Borough Hall.[10] On April 9, 1936, C service was extended to Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets.[14] After July 1, 1937, a few C trains continued to run to Bergen Street southbound in the morning rush hour and northbound in the evening rush hour. Also on the same date, weekend C service was discontinued, and CC service was extended to 205th Street to compensate.[15]

IND Sixth Avenue Line opens

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An old sign stating "Sixth Avenue Subway Will be Opened to the Public at 12:01 A.M. Sunday, December 15, 1940. There are service announcements for other subway lines as well.
"Sixth Avenue Subway Will Be Opened to the Public at 12:01 A.M. Sunday, Dec. 15, 1940"

On December 15, 1940, the IND Sixth Avenue Line opened. Two new services, the BB (later B) and D, began running. These lines ran on the Eighth Avenue Line in upper Manhattan, switching to the Sixth Avenue Line in Midtown. The BB ran local to 168th Street during rush hours. The D joined the C as the peak direction Concourse Express. CC trains now ran between Hudson Terminal and Bedford Park during rush hours and on Saturdays and during other times, the D made local stops in the Bronx, replacing CC service. On the same date, limited morning rush hour service began between 205th Street, Bronx and Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, making local stops on the IND Fulton Street Line. AA service was reinstated during this time, but only during off-peak hours (non-rush hours, late Saturday afternoons and Sundays) when the BB and CC did not operate.[10][16] The CC would provide Eighth Avenue Line local service during rush hours, with the AA replacing it during off-peak hours, mostly unchanged until 1988.

In the 1940s, C trains ran every 10 minutes during rush hour, CC trains ran every 4 minutes, and D trains ran every 5 minutes.[13]

On October 24, 1949, C express service was discontinued. Additional D service was added to offset this loss. The CC, which only ran during rush hours, began terminating at Broadway–Lafayette Street Mondays to Fridays, and on Saturdays CC service continued to operate to Hudson Terminal.[17] On December 29, 1951, Saturday CC service was discontinued.[18] Weekday CC service returned to its previous terminal at Hudson Terminal on October 30, 1954.[19]


1967–1979 bullets

On August 30, 1976, the CC train replaced the E train as the rush-hour local along the IND Fulton Street Line and IND Rockaway Line, running from Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street in Queens through Brooklyn and Manhattan to Bedford Park Boulevard in the Bronx, making it the only service to run through all four boroughs served by the subway.[20] The Rockaway Park Shuttle HH was renamed CC. This shuttle ran between Broad Channel and Rockaway Park during off-peak hours, except late nights. With this, all daytime service to and from Rockaway Park was named CC. Late nights, the shuttle ran between Euclid Avenue, Rockaway Park and Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue via Hammels Wye, and was labeled A.[10]


1979–1985 bullets

On August 28, 1977, late night AA service was eliminated. The A began making local stops in Manhattan during late nights, when the AA was not running.[7][21]

On May 6, 1985, the IND practice of using double letters to indicate local service was discontinued. The AA was renamed the K and rush hour CC service was renamed C. The off-peak Rockaway Park Shuttle was renamed H.[10][22] This change was not officially reflected in schedules until May 24, 1987.[7]

1985–1988 C bullet
1985–1988 K bullet

Modern service consolidations

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On December 10, 1988, the K designation was discontinued and merged into the C, which now ran at all times except late nights.[23]: 17  The C ran from Bedford Park Boulevard to Rockaway Park during rush hours, 145th Street to Euclid Avenue during middays, and from 145th Street to World Trade Center during evenings and weekends. The A now ran express in Brooklyn during middays, and the B was extended to 168th Street during middays and early evenings.[10][24]

In January 1991, a reduction of service along the Central Park West, Eighth Avenue and Fulton Street corridors to remove excess capacity was proposed. Initially, the C designation would be eliminated, being replaced by the A making local stops in Manhattan and Brooklyn between 168th Street and Euclid Avenue. The service change was later amended to retain the C designation but with a new service pattern: service would operate local between 168th Street and Euclid Avenue during weekday rush hours and middays, with weekday evening and weekend daytime service extended beyond 168th Street and originate and terminate at 207th Street, and daily late night service extended beyond Euclid Avenue to operate to and from Mott Avenue in Queens. This service change would have been implemented in October 1991, pending approval from the MTA board.[25]

On October 23, 1992, rush hour C service was cut back from Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street to Euclid Avenue. The 1992 change introduced five A trips in each direction run from 59th Street–Columbus Circle to Rockaway Park during rush hours, with the Rockaway Park Shuttle (renamed from H to S) operating between Broad Channel and Rockaway Park at all times.[26]

On May 29, 1994, weekend service between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. was extended to Washington Heights–168th Street (effectively recreating the old AA) to allow A trains to run express.[27] Beginning April 30, 1995, C service was extended to 168th Street during middays as construction on the Manhattan Bridge cut B service from Manhattan. On November 11, 1995, midday service was cut back to 145th Street after B service to 168th Street was restored.

The B and the C, which both ran local along Central Park West, switched northern terminals on March 1, 1998, ending the connection between the C and the Bronx. Instead of alternating between three different terminals depending on the time of day, all C service now terminated at 168th Street.[10][28] The change was made to reduce crowding on the C and to reduce passenger confusion about the C's route.[29]

Starting on May 1, 1999, C trains were extended to Euclid Avenue on evenings and weekends. The 1999 change had the C run local in Brooklyn and Manhattan and the A run express at all times except late nights.[7] This service change was made due to construction taking place on the Williamsburg Bridge, which prohibited the J, M, and Z from entering Manhattan; as a result, service on the C, as well as the A and L lines were increased. This service change to the C was made permanent after the Williamsburg Bridge reopened to J, M and Z trains.[30]

In the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks, World Trade Center station was temporarily not usable as a terminal for the E. C service was suspended until September 24.[31] Local service along Central Park West was replaced by the A and D, and the E was extended from Canal Street to Euclid Avenue replacing C service in Brooklyn.[32][33]

On January 23, 2005, a fire at the Chambers Street signal room crippled A and C service. C service was suspended until February 2 and was replaced by the A, B, D, E, and V along different parts of its route. Initial assessments suggested that it would take several years to restore normal service, but the damaged equipment was replaced with available spare parts, allowing normal service to resume on April 21.[34]

From March 29, 2020,[35][36] to April 29, 2020,[37] C trains were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, and A trains to Lefferts Boulevard ran local in their place.[38] The cutbacks meant that wait times during rush hours increased from 8 to 12 minutes. In March 2021, TWU 100, the union for subway workers, sued the MTA in order to prevent the reduced frequencies from being permanent.[39] That same month, the MTA decided to bring back full C service; full service was restored in mid-2021.[40][41]

Maintenance and rider issues

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Criticism

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In August 2012, the Straphangers Campaign rated the C train the worst of the city's subway services for the fourth straight year. No other service has ranked worst for more than three years in a row. The group found that the C performed worst in three of the six categories in its annual State of the Subways Report Card: amount of scheduled service, interior cleanliness, and breakdown rate. It also ranked next-to-worst in car announcement quality, after the 7, but performed above average in regularity of service and crowding.[42] The New York Times called the C the "least loved of New York City subway lines", citing its fleet of R32s, which were almost 50 years old at the time the Times reported on the issue.[43] The New York Times has also stated that the C train "rattled and clanked along the deteriorating maze of tracks beneath the city, tin-clad markers of years of neglect."[44] In 2017, the Times referred to the R32s on the C as the world's oldest subway cars "in continuous daily operation".[44] The R32s were initially retired in late April 2020, but were temporarily pressed back into service from July through October 2020 and finally retired in early January 2022.[45]

Improvements

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168th Street-bound R211T C train at 59th Street–Columbus Circle

In 2011, problems with the R32s were at a peak as the fleet's failure rate was rising steadily. In 2012, money was directed to replace the R32 with the R179. Bombardier Transportation won the $600 million contract to build 300 new cars.[44] The R179s were expected to replace the R32s with some being allocated to the C. However, delivery of the R179s was delayed until 2017 and the R32s momentarily remained in service after the order was completed, so stopgap measures were implemented.[46]

In the 2010s, all trains on the C were only 480 feet (146 m) long, partially due to lower ridership levels on the route, according to NYC Transit's Rapid Transit Loading Guideline. This contrasted with trains on the rest of the mainline B Division (except for the Eastern Division and the G train), which are 600 feet (183 m) long.[4] During summer 2010, some 600-foot-long R44 trains ran on the C, displacing some R32s, whose air conditioning units were repaired.[47] In the summers of 2011 and 2012, some 600-foot-long R46 trains were used on the C, while the R32s were used on the A, which had significant outdoor sections where the air conditioning units did not have to be used.[48][4] In the summers of 2013 and 2014 as well as from May 2015 to February 2019, some 480-foot-long R160As ran on the C, covering half of its fleet, because of the R32s' continuously aging air compressors caused by the entirely underground C route.[4] Concurrently, some R32s in exchange were transferred to East New York Yard, where they were used on the mostly outdoor J/Z. In late 2017, after several failed proposals to permanently lengthen C trains as ridership increased,[4] some 600-foot-long R46 trains were reassigned to the C, displacing some more R32s to the A.[49]

On November 6, 2018, some 480-foot-long R179 trains started running on the C,[50] gradually displacing the R160As back to East New York Yard by February 6, 2019.[51] The R179s periodically experienced major mechanical and technical issues, forcing the MTA to remove them from service.[52][53][54][55] The R211 fleet, which is being delivered as of 2023, also runs on the C;[56] two 600-foot-long R211T trains with open gangways began running on the C in February 2024.[57]

Service frequencies on the C were increased after the New York state government provided funding for the changes in mid-2023.[58][59] On August 7 of that year, midday service was increased to run every eight minutes instead of every ten minutes.[58][60] There was supposed to be another service increase during the evening starting in December 2023, but as of February 2024, this service increase has not happened.[58][61]

Route

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Service pattern

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The following table shows the lines used by the C:[62]

Line From To Tracks
IND Eighth Avenue Line 168th Street Canal Street local
Chambers Street High Street all
IND Fulton Street Line Jay Street–MetroTech Euclid Avenue local

Stations

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For a more detailed station listing, see the articles on the lines listed above.[3]

Station service legend
Stops all times Stops all times
Stops all times except late nights Stops all times except late nights
Stops weekdays during the day Stops weekdays during the day
Station closed Station closed
Stops rush hours only Stops rush hours only (limited service)
Stops rush hours in the peak direction only Stops rush hours/weekdays in the peak direction only
Time period details
Disabled access Station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act
Disabled access ↑ Station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act
in the indicated direction only
Disabled access ↓
Elevator access to mezzanine only
C service Stations Disabled access Subway transfers Connections
Manhattan
Eighth Avenue Line
Stops all times except late nights 168th Street Disabled access A all times
1 all times (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
Stops all times except late nights 163rd Street–Amsterdam Avenue
Stops all times except late nights 155th Street Bx6 Select Bus Service
Stops all times except late nights 145th Street A all times
B weekdays during the day ​D all times (IND Concourse Line)
Stops all times except late nights 135th Street B weekdays during the day
Stops all times except late nights 125th Street Disabled access A all times ​B weekdays during the day ​​D all times M60 Select Bus Service to LaGuardia Airport
Stops all times except late nights 116th Street B weekdays during the day
Stops all times except late nights Cathedral Parkway–110th Street B weekdays during the day
Stops all times except late nights 103rd Street B weekdays during the day
Stops all times except late nights 96th Street B weekdays during the day
Stops all times except late nights 86th Street B weekdays during the day M86 Select Bus Service
Stops all times except late nights 81st Street–Museum of Natural History B weekdays during the day M79 Select Bus Service
Stops all times except late nights 72nd Street B weekdays during the day
Stops all times except late nights 59th Street–Columbus Circle Disabled access A all times ​B weekdays during the day ​​D all times
1 all times (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
Stops all times except late nights 50th Street Disabled access ↓ E all times (IND Queens Boulevard Line) Station is ADA-accessible in the southbound direction only.
Stops all times except late nights 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal Disabled access A all times ​​E all times
1 all times ​2 all times ​3 all times (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
7 all times <7> rush hours until 9:30 p.m., peak direction​ (IRT Flushing Line)
N all times ​Q all times ​R all except late nights ​W weekdays only (BMT Broadway Line)
S all except late nights (42nd Street Shuttle)
at Times Square
B weekdays during the day ​D all times ​F all times <F> two rush hour trains, peak direction ​M weekdays during the day (IND Sixth Avenue Line at 42nd Street–Bryant Park, daytime only) 		Port Authority Bus Terminal
M34A Select Bus Service
Stops all times except late nights 34th Street–Penn Station Disabled access A all times ​​E all times M34 / M34A Select Bus Service
Amtrak, LIRR, NJ Transit at Pennsylvania Station
Stops all times except late nights 23rd Street E all times M23 Select Bus Service
Stops all times except late nights 14th Street Disabled access A all times ​​E all times
L all times (BMT Canarsie Line at Eighth Avenue) 		M14A/D Select Bus Service
Stops all times except late nights West Fourth Street–Washington Square Disabled access A all times ​​E all times
B weekdays during the day ​D all times ​F all times <F> two rush hour trains, peak direction ​M weekdays during the day (IND Sixth Avenue Line) 		PATH at Ninth Street
Stops all times except late nights Spring Street E all times
Stops all times except late nights Canal Street A all times ​​E all times
Stops all times except late nights Chambers Street Elevator access to mezzanine only A all times
E all times (at World Trade Center)[a]
2 all times ​3 all except late nights (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line at Park Place)
R all except late nights ​W weekdays only (BMT Broadway Line at Cortlandt Street) 		PATH at World Trade Center
Stops all times except late nights Fulton Street Disabled access A all times
2 all times ​3 all except late nights (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
4 all times ​5 all except late nights (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
J all times ​Z rush hours, peak direction (BMT Nassau Street Line) 		PATH at World Trade Center
Brooklyn
Stops all times except late nights High Street A all times Ferry transport NYC Ferry: East River and South Brooklyn routes (at Old Fulton Street and Furman Street)
Fulton Street Line
Stops all times except late nights Jay Street–MetroTech Disabled access A all times F all times <F> two rush hour trains, peak direction​
R all times ​W limited rush hour service only (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)
Stops all times except late nights Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets Elevator access to mezzanine only A all times
G all times (IND Crosstown Line)
Stops all times except late nights Lafayette Avenue
Stops all times except late nights Clinton–Washington Avenues
Stops all times except late nights Franklin Avenue Disabled access S all times (BMT Franklin Avenue Line)
Stops all times except late nights Nostrand Avenue A all times B44 Select Bus Service, LIRR Atlantic Branch at Nostrand Avenue
Stops all times except late nights Kingston–Throop Avenues B15 bus to JFK Int'l Airport
Stops all times except late nights Utica Avenue Disabled access A all times B46 Select Bus Service
Stops all times except late nights Ralph Avenue
Stops all times except late nights Rockaway Avenue
Stops all times except late nights Broadway Junction A all times
J all times ​Z rush hours, peak direction (BMT Jamaica Line)
L all times (BMT Canarsie Line)
Stops all times except late nights Liberty Avenue
Stops all times except late nights Van Siclen Avenue
Stops all times except late nights Shepherd Avenue
Stops all times except late nights Euclid Avenue Disabled access A all times

Notes

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  1. ^ Chambers Street–World Trade Center are actually counted as two separate stations by the MTA. E trains terminate at World Trade Center while A and ​C trains have through service at Chambers Street.[63]

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