5 (New York City Subway service)

	Lexington Avenue Express
	Flatbush Avenue-bound 5 train of R142s at Morris Park
	Note: Dark dashed line indicates weekday rush hour service to Nereid Avenue and weekday service to Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College. Dashed pink line shows limited rush hour service to Utica Avenue or New Lots Avenue
Northern end	Dyre Avenue (All times); Nereid Avenue (weekday rush hour service);
Southern end	East 180th Street (late nights); Bowling Green (weekday evenings and weekends); Flatbush Avenue (Weekdays); Utica Avenue and New Lots Avenue (limited rush hour service);
Stations	45; 53 (limited services)
Rolling stock	340 to 360 R142s (34 to 36 trains)
Depot	East 180th Street Yard
Started service	October 27, 1904; 113 years ago
Route map
	Legend
	The Bronx
	Manhattan
bypassed local section
116th Street
bypassed local section
77th Street
bypassed local section
51st Street
bypassed local section
33rd Street
bypassed local section
Astor Place
	Manhattan
	Brooklyn
	northbound only
	for 4 and 5 services
bypassed local section
Hoyt Street

The 5 Lexington Avenue Express^[2] is a rapid transit service in the A Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored apple green since it uses the IRT Lexington Avenue Line in Manhattan.^[3]

The 5 operates at all times. Weekday rush hour and midday service operates between Dyre Avenue in Eastchester, Bronx and Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College in Midwood, Brooklyn, making local stops in the Bronx and express stops in Manhattan and Brooklyn; during rush hours in the peak direction, 5 trains operate express in the Bronx between East 180th Street and Third Avenue–149th Street; limited peak-direction rush hour service originates and terminates at Nereid Avenue.^[a] in the Bronx instead of Dyre Avenue, as well as either at Utica^[b] or New Lots Avenues^[c] in Brooklyn instead of Flatbush Avenue. The 5 short turns at Bowling Green in Financial District, Manhattan during weekday evenings and weekends, and operates as a shuttle between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street during late nights.

Historically, 5 trains have run to Crown Heights–Utica Avenue or New Lots Avenue. Since 1983, most trains run only to Bowling Green or Flatbush Avenue, although some rush-hour trains still run to Utica or New Lots Avenues.

Service history[edit]

The section from East 180th Street to Dyre Avenue was once part of the mainline of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, a standard gauge electric commuter railroad built by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Upon its closure in 1937, the entire property was put up for sale.

Rush hour service was designated with a diamond bullet until May 27, 2005.

Beginning on April 28, 1930, Saturday 5 service to Crown Heights–Utica Avenue began.

As of 1934, trains normally ran from Wakefield–241st Street or East 180th Street to Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center. During weekday rush hours and weekend afternoons they were extended to Utica Avenue.^[4] Late-night service was not operated.

From July 24, 1938, to September 18, 1938, there was Sunday daytime 5 service to New Lots Avenue. Beginning on July 10, 1939, Sunday afternoon 5 service to New Lots began.^[4]

On December 22, 1946, alternate Sunday morning 5 service to New Lots began.^[4] However, on March 5, 1950, 5 service was cut back to Utica Avenue all day on Sundays.^[4]

Express service on the IRT White Plains Road Line began on April 23, 1953 with alternate 5 trains using the middle track between East 180th Street and 149th Street during the weekday rush in the peak direction.^[5] Starting on October 2, 1953, 5 Thru-Expreses began running express between East 180th Street and Gun Hill Road using the middle track in order to encourage passengers who changed at Gun Hill Road for Third Avenue Elevated service to stay on subway trains.^[6]^[7]^[8] From June 7, 1954 to June 16, 1958, they skipped 138th Street. On June 16, 1958, these 5 trains resumed stopping at 138th, with 4 trains skipping the station during rush hours.

Beginning on May 3, 1957, limited rush hour 5 service ran to Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College replacing the 4 service. Evening, Saturday afternoon, and Sunday trains were cut back to South Ferry.

Beginning on March 1, 1960, evening trains began making all stops in Manhattan.^[4] Beginning on April 8, 1960, weekday evening service was discontinued, as was weekday rush service to Flatbush Avenue.^[4]

Starting on April 18, 1965, most daytime service was rerouted to Dyre Avenue, replacing 2 daytime service to Dyre Avenue except evenings and late nights when shuttle service served Dyre Avenue. Some weekday rush peak-direction service to 241st Street was retained, while Saturday and Sunday evening trains were cut back from 241st Street to East 180th Street. Also, Saturday morning trains were cut back from Atlantic Avenue to South Ferry.^[4]^[9]^[10]^[11] Starting on May 3, 1965, trains to or from 241st Street began making all stops between Gun Hill Road and East 180th Street.^[4]

Beginning on May 23, 1976, 5 service began starting late on Sunday mornings. As of May 24, 1976, weekday midday 5 service was cut back to Bowling Green from Atlantic Avenue.^[4]^[12] In 1979, with the color coding of subway routes based on their trunk line in Manhattan, the 5 service's color was changed to apple green, as it goes via the Lexington Avenue Line in Manhattan.^[13]^[14] 5 service was re-extended May 15, 1980, to Atlantic Avenue.^[4] On July 10, 1983, all rush hour service ran to Flatbush Avenue, with limited service to/from Utica or New Lots Avenue.^[15] Beginning on January 18, 1988, all midday 5 service was cut back to Bowling Green, to allow 4 service to operate to Utica.^[4]

In 1995, rush hour service to 241st Street was cut back to Nereid Avenue. On May 27, 2005, use of the 5 diamond to indicate peak direction service to Nereid Avenue was discontinued.

On June 29, 2009, 5 trains were extended to Flatbush Avenue during midday hours.^[4]^[16]

From March 29 to September 3, 2010, rush hour peak direction 5 express service was suspended due to rehabilitation of East 180th Street and signal replacements along the IRT White Plains Road Line. PM northbound express service was suspended again on March 28, 2011, to allow for the second phase of the signal replacement project. This time, service was restored on August 8.

Due to repairs to Hurricane Sandy-related damage in the Clark Street Tunnel, which carries the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line into Brooklyn, between June 17, 2017 and June 23, 2018, the 5 was extended to Flatbush Avenue on weekends, running local in Brooklyn. In the Bronx, the 5 ran to 241st Street instead of Dyre Avenue in place of the 2.^[17]^[18]

Dyre Avenue Shuttle[edit]

In 1940, the City of New York purchased the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, and began integrating the line into the system. The railroad north of the city line to White Plains and Port Chester was quickly dismantled. The section below East 180th Street to Greens Farm Junction was once used to interchange with the New Haven (and later Penn Central and Conrail) to bring subway cars and other equipment on and off the system. That section has since been removed, isolating this part of the subway from the interchange.

The East 180th Street–Dyre Avenue Shuttle or Dyre Avenue Shuttle was established as a new subway service and full-time shuttle along this section on May 15, 1941, between the former East 180th Street station of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway and Eastchester–Dyre Avenue, which was the northernmost station on the NYW&B within New York City. Passengers had to make a walking transfer between the Dyre Avenue Line and the IRT White Plains Road Line at East 180th Street as there was no track connection between the lines.

In 1957, a flyover connection opened between the East 180th Street station of the White Plains Road Line and the Dyre Avenue Line, enabling through service by trains from the 2 route from Manhattan to Dyre Avenue. At the same time, the former NYW&B station was closed and the off-hours Dyre Avenue Shuttle rerouted to the White Plains Road Line station. These shuttles were initially labeled 2 like the full-time service but were later signed as 9, a number used decades when skip-stop service on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line was instituted and split between the 1 and 9 services. The off-hours Dyre Avenue Shuttle still operates, but those trains are signed as 5, the same as the through service.

Route[edit]

Service pattern[edit]

The following table shows the lines used by the 5, with shaded boxes indicating the route at the specified times:^[19]

Line	From	To	Tracks	Times
Line	From	To	Tracks	weekdays	eves & weekends	late nights	rush peak
IRT Dyre Avenue Line (full line)	Eastchester–Dyre Avenue	Morris Park	all				Most trains
IRT White Plains Road Line	Nereid Avenue	Bronx Park East	local	N/A	N/A	N/A	Limited service
	East 180th Street		all
	West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue	Jackson Avenue	local
	West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue	Jackson Avenue	express
	Third Avenue–149th Street	149th Street–Grand Concourse	all
IRT Jerome Avenue Line	138th Street–Grand Concourse		local
IRT Lexington Avenue Line (full line)	125th Street	Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall	express
IRT Lexington Avenue Line (full line)	Fulton Street	Bowling Green	all
Joralemon Street Tunnel			all
IRT Eastern Parkway Line	Borough Hall	Franklin Avenue	express
IRT Nostrand Avenue Line (full line)	President Street	Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College	all				Most trains
IRT Eastern Parkway Line	Franklin Avenue	Crown Heights–Utica Avenue	express	N/A	N/A	N/A	Limited service
IRT New Lots Line (full line)	Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road	New Lots Avenue	all	N/A	N/A	N/A	Very limited service

Stations[edit]

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

Station service legend
	Stops all times
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops weekdays only
	Stops daily except rush hours in the peak direction
	Stops rush hours only
	Station closed
	Stops rush hours/weekdays in the peak direction only (including limited service)
Time period details

	Station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act
↑	Station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act in the indicated direction only
↓
	Elevator access to mezzanine only

D.	N.	Stations		Subway transfers	Connections
The Bronx
Dyre Avenue Line
	N/A	Eastchester–Dyre Avenue
		Baychester Avenue
		Gun Hill Road/Seymour Avenue
		Pelham Parkway/Esplanade			Bx12 Select Bus Service
		Morris Park

White Plains Road Line (peak-direction rush hour trips only)
N/A		Nereid Avenue		2	Northern terminal for most rush hour peak direction trips to/from Manhattan and Brooklyn
		233rd Street		2	Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line at Woodlawn
		225th Street		2
		219th Street		2
		Gun Hill Road/White Plains Road		2	Bx41 Select Bus Service
		Burke Avenue		2
		Allerton Avenue		2
		Pelham Parkway/White Plains Road		2	Bx12 Select Bus Service
		Bronx Park East		2

		East 180th Street		2	Some southbound rush hour trips begin at this station Some northbound a.m. rush hour trips terminate at this station Southern terminal for late night service
		West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue		2	Q44 Select Bus Service
		174th Street		2
		Freeman Street		2
		Simpson Street		2
		Intervale Avenue		2	Bx6 Select Bus Service
		Prospect Avenue		2	Bx6 Select Bus Service
		Jackson Avenue		2
		Third Avenue–149th Street		2	Bx41 Select Bus Service
		149th Street–Grand Concourse		2 4 (IRT Jerome Avenue Line)
Jerome Avenue Line
		138th Street–Grand Concourse		4
Manhattan
Lexington Avenue Line
		125th Street		4 6 <6>	Metro-North Railroad at Harlem–125th Street M60 Select Bus Service to LaGuardia Airport
		86th Street		4 6 <6>	M86 Select Bus Service
		59th Street		4 6 <6> N R W (BMT Broadway Line) Out-of-system transfer with MetroCard: F N Q R (63rd Street Lines at Lexington Avenue–63rd Street)	Roosevelt Island Tramway
		Grand Central–42nd Street		4 6 <6> 7 <7> (IRT Flushing Line) S (42nd Street Shuttle)	Metro-North Railroad at Grand Central Terminal
		14th Street–Union Square		4 6 <6> L (BMT Canarsie Line) N Q R W (BMT Broadway Line)
		Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall		4 6 <6> J Z (BMT Nassau Street Line at Chambers Street)
		Fulton Street		4 2 3 (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) A C (IND Eighth Avenue Line) J Z (BMT Nassau Street Line) Connection to N R W (BMT Broadway Line) at Cortlandt Street via Dey Street Passageway
		Wall Street		4
		Bowling Green		4	Staten Island Ferry at Whitehall Terminal Southern terminal for evening and weekend service, as well as some rush hour service
Brooklyn
Eastern Parkway Line
		Borough Hall	↑	4 2 3 (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) R W (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)	Station is ADA-accessible in the northbound direction only
		Nevins Street		2 3 4
		Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center		2 3 4 B Q (BMT Brighton Line) D N R W (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)	LIRR Atlantic Branch at Atlantic Terminal
		Franklin Avenue		2 3 4 S (BMT Franklin Avenue Line)

Nostrand Avenue Line
		President Street		2
		Sterling Street		2	B44 Select Bus Service
		Winthrop Street		2	B44 Select Bus Service
		Church Avenue		2	B44 Select Bus Service
		Beverly Road		2
		Newkirk Avenue		2	B44 Select Bus Service
		Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College		2	B44 Select Bus Service

Eastern Parkway Line (limited rush hour service only)
↑		Nostrand Avenue		2 3 4	One rush-hour train to the Bronx stops here
↑		Kingston Avenue		2 3 4	One rush-hour train to the Bronx stops here
		Crown Heights–Utica Avenue		2 3 4	B46 Select Bus Service Southern terminal for some rush hour service
New Lots Line (limited rush hour service only)
		Sutter Avenue–Rutland Road		2 3 4	B15 bus to JFK Airport
		Saratoga Avenue		2 3 4
		Rockaway Avenue		2 3 4
		Junius Street		2 3 4
		Pennsylvania Avenue		2 3 4
		Van Siclen Avenue		2 3 4
		New Lots Avenue		2 3 4	B15 bus to JFK Airport Southern terminal for some northbound a.m. rush hour service

Notes[edit]

^ Limited rush hour service to Manhattan and Brooklyn originates at Nereid Avenue during a.m. rush hours; service from Brooklyn and Manhattan terminates at Nereid Avenue during p.m. rush hours.
^ A handful of rush hour trains also originate and terminate at Crown Heights–Utica Avenue, operating between the Bronx and Brooklyn.
^ Limited a.m. rush hour service to Manhattan and the Bronx originates at New Lots Avenue only.