Route 1 (New York City Subway)

For the former BMT services, see BMT 1.

The 1 Broadway – Seventh Avenue Local is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored red on station signs and the NYC Subway map because it represents service provided on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line, which it follows for its entire route. For more information on the line, including history, see that article. Trains of the 1 service run 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

Service history

1 BROADWAY	9 DYRE AVE
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1967-1979 bullet (in a circle)

The original line that opened on October 27, 1904 from 145th Street to City Hall, via Broadway, 42nd Street, Park Avenue South, and Lafayette Street. There was express service, which used switches at 96th Street, as well as local service.

On November 1, 1904, the line was extended to 157th Street.

On January 16, 1905, Fulton Street opened.

On June 12, 1905, Wall Street opened, followed by Bowling Green and South Ferry loop the next month.

On March 12, 1906, the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line is extended to 215th Street; followed by 225th Street on January 14, 1907, and finally, to 242nd Street on August 8, 1908.

On April 15, 1919, the Clark Street Tunnel to Borough Hall, Brooklyn is completed. West Side trains no longer crossed Manhattan on the 42nd Street segment, which became the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle.

In December, trains began operating to Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn.

On August 23, 1920, trains began alternating between Flatbush Avenue and Utica Avenue.

Three months later, the line is extended to Junius Street. Shuttle service began between that station and Utica Avenue.

On January 3, 1921, non-rush service terminates at Atlantic Avenue. Shuttle service began operating from Borough Hall to Flatbush Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, but this ended a month later.

A year later, the entire IRT Eastern Parkway Line is completed. Single track shuttles operated between Pennsylvania Avenue and New Lots Avenue.

Beginning on April 9, 1923, express service ran from 242nd Street to Pennsylvania Avenue and from 215th Street to Flatbush Avenue.

On October 31, 1924, service ran to New Lots Avenue.

Beginning on December 1, 1924, rush hour trains alternated to Utica Avenue and Flatbush Avenue. Over the decades, the route switched back and forth between Utica Avenue, New Lots Avenue and Flatbush Avenue at different times, (from 1934–37, trains separated at Brooklyn Museum, with one half going to Flatbush Avenue, and the other to New Lots Avenue) until February 6, 1959, when all trains were locals to South Ferry only.

After September 11, 2001, 1 trains had to be rerouted since the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line ran directly under the World Trade Center and was heavily damaged in the collapse of the South Tower. It ran only between 242nd Street and 14th Street, running local north of and express south of 96th Street; the 9 and skip-stop service were suspended at this time. On September 19, after a few switching delays at 96th Street, service was changed. 1 trains made all local stops from 242nd Street to New Lots Avenue via the Clark Street Tunnel and IRT Eastern Parkway Line, to replace 3 service, which terminated at 14th Street. On September 15, 2002, 1 trains returned to South Ferry and the skip-stop service was restored.

Skip-stop service

9  The 1/9 skip-stop service was introduced on August 26, 1989 to meet demands for more frequent service. At first, almost every station between 242nd Street–Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and 137th Street–City College in Manhattan was skipped. However, as time passed, many skipped stations became more utilized and were no longer skipped. Popularity and use rose to where the skip-stop service saved little or no time at all. By 1995, 1 trains only skipped three stops while 9 trains only skipped four. In early 2005, it was announced that the skip-stop service would be discontinued due to low ridership, and the 9 train made its final run on May 27. 1 trains then started to make all stops at all times.

During skip-stop service, the following stations were assigned to the 1 only:

• 238th Street
• 215th Street
• Dyckman Street
• 157th Street

and the following stations to the 9 only:

• 225th Street–Marble Hill
• 207th Street
• 145th Street

Route

Route 1 service uses the following lines with the same service pattern at all times.

Line	Starting terminal	Ending terminal	Tracks
IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line	Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street	South Ferry	local

Station service legend
	Stops all times
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops late nights only
	Stops weekdays only
	Stops rush hours in the peak direction only
	Station closed

			Stations		Transfer	Connections and notes
			Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street
			238th Street			242nd Street-bound platform is exit-only
			231st Street
			Marble Hill – 225th Street			Metro-North: Hudson Line @ Marble Hill
			215th Street
			207th Street			Bx12 SBS
			Dyckman Street			Station is ADA-accessible in the southbound direction only.
			191st Street
			181st Street			George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal
			168th Street
			157th Street
			145th Street
			137th Street – City College
			125th Street			M60 SBS to LaGuardia Airport
			116th Street – Columbia University
			Cathedral Parkway – 110th Street
			103rd Street
			96th Street
			86th Street
			79th Street
			72nd Street
			66th Street – Lincoln Center
			59th Street – Columbus Circle
			50th Street
			Times Square – 42nd Street		(42nd Street Shuttle)	Port Authority Bus Terminal
			34th Street – Penn Station			M34 / M34A SBS, Amtrak, LIRR, NJ Transit @ Pennsylvania Station
			28th Street
			23rd Street
			18th Street
			14th Street			PATH @ 14th Street
			Christopher Street – Sheridan Square			PATH @ Christopher Street
			Houston Street
			Canal Street
			Franklin Street
			Chambers Street
			Cortlandt Street
			Rector Street
			South Ferry			M15 SBS Staten Island Ferry @ South Ferry
			South Ferry			closed since Hurricane Sandy

External links

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Wikinews has news related to:

New York City Subway's skip-stop 9 service to make its last run May 27

• MTA NYC Transit - 1 Broadway-Seventh Avenue Local
• MTA NYC Transit - 1 schedulePDF (140 KiB)
• MTA NYC Transit - 9 Broadway-Seventh Avenue Local (on the Internet Archive)

References

• Line By Line History