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Times Square - 42nd Street

Boro	Manhattan	Lines Served
Year Opened	IRT Shuttle: 1904 IRT 7th Ave: 1917 IRT Flushing: 1927 BMT Bway: 1918	Lines Served
Street Location	Times Square	Transfers
Platform Layout	IRT 7th ave: 2 island platforms IRT Flushing: 1 island platform IRT Shuttle: 2 side platforms, 1 island BMT Bway: 2 island platforms	Right-of-Way	Subway
# of Tracks	IRT 7th Ave: 4 tracks IRT Flushing: 2 tracks IRT Shuttle: 3 tracks BMT Bway: 4 tracks	Former Name(s)
Points of Interest	Theater District, Times Square, Madam Tussads, Hard Rock Cafe, ABC GMA Studios, and lots more. This station complex is probably the largest in the system connecting 3 North/South trunk Lines and 2 cross-town lines.The IND 8th Ave 42nd Str-PABT Station is connected via a long corridor.

This colorful entrance is for Time Square, on 42nd street. The lights are very appropriate. (4/05)	Another Times Square entrance, again note the lighting (4/05).
Next Train indicator at Times Square on the #7 Flushing platform. (6/19/04)
This train is on the curvy Times Square station. The track its on and the platform on the right was originally the express tracks. Times Sq was a local station with the platform on the left. (7/26/02)	Q and a local Broadway train at 42nd St. (9/27/02)
Waiting for passengers at Times Square. (10/29/04)	Looking at Track 4 of the Shuttle train at Times Square. (10/18/06)
Railfan excursion train on the #7 Platform at Times Square. (6/19/04)	Glitzy 42nd St Entrance (10/02/13)
Stairs to the IRT Uptown platform (10/04/13)	7th Ave IRT line platform (10/04/13)
#1 Local arriving (10/04/13)	42nd Street entrance (10/04/13)
BMT train departing (10/04/13)	Elevator on the BMT platform. The sign is outdated showing the "W" and the "9" train which were discontinued a few years ago (10/04/13)
Shuttle on track 3 (10/04/13)	Looking at Track 4 from the pedestrian "bridge" (10/04/13)
#1 Train passing the Shuttle "pedestrian Bridge. This bridge can be removed for the train on Track 4 to go to out for maintenace. (10/04/13)	Platform between tracks 1 & 3 (10/04/13)
Platform between tracks 1 & 3 (10/04/13)	Waiting for the shuttle (10/04/13)
7th Ave IRT station (10/11/14)	7th Ave IRT station (10/11/14)
7th Ave IRT station (10/11/14)	Concourse art (10/11/14)
7th Ave IRT station entrance(10/11/14)	Street entrance (10/11/14)
#2 train arriving (12/4/17)	Concourse art (12/4/17)
Crowd to the platform (12/4/17)	Concourse art (10/24/15)
7th Ave IRT station (10/11/14)	#1 train arrving (12/4/17)
Plaque (12/4/17)	Concourse art (12/4/17)
th Ave IRT station (10/11/14)	Concourse art (12/4/17)
Concourse art (12/4/17)	Shuttle platform (12/4/17)
Shuttle platform (12/4/17)	Shuttle platform (12/4/17)
7th Ave IRT station (12/4/174)	7th Ave IRT station (10/11/14)
7th Ave IRT station (10/11/14)	Concourse art (10/24/15)
Concourse art (10/24/15)	Concourse art (1024/15)
7th Ave IRT station (10/24/15)	7th Ave IRT station (10/24/15)
th Ave IRT station (10/24/15)	Concourse art (5/3/15)
Shuttle departing(10/23/15)	Shuttle platform (12/4/17)
Street Entrance (10/24/15)	Concourse art (10/24/15)
NEXT STOP
To: South Ferry	To: Van Cortlandt Pk/242nd St
34th St/Penn Station	50th Street
To: Flatbush Ave	To: Wakefield-241st St
To: New Lots Ave	To: Harlem-148th St
34th St/Penn Station	72nd Street
To: Hudson Yards/34th St	To: Flushing/Main St
Hudson Yards/34th Street	5th Avenue
To: Times Square	To: Grand Central
End of Line	Grand Central
To: Coney Island	To: Astoria/Ditmars Blvd
To: Bay Ridge/95th Street	To: Forest Hills/71st Ave
To: Whitehall St/South Ferry	To: Astoria/Ditmars Blvd
34th St/Herald Square	49th Street
To: Coney Island	To: 96th Street/2nd Ave
34th St/Herald Square	57th St/7th Avenue

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