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BMT Canarsie Line facts for kids

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The BMT Canarsie Line is a line of the New York City Subway, and over 565,000 people ride it every day. Services using the line are colored light gray, not to be confused with the dark gray Shuttles.

Only one service uses the line, and that is the L service. It runs from 8th Avenue to Rockaway Parkway.

Services
Lines in
operation
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Stations
By borough
The Bronx
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens
By type
Closed
Terminals
Transfer
Accessible
Divisions
Other lists
  • Lines
  • Yards
  • Rolling stock
  • R-type contracts
Expansion
  • Capital projects
    • 7 Subway Extension
    • Second Avenue Subway
  • Other proposals
History
  • Early history
    • IRT
    • BMT
    • BRT (defunct)
    • Dual Contracts
  • Crashes
    • Ninth Avenue derailment
    • Malbone Street Wreck
    • 1928 Times Square derailment
    • 1991 Union Square derailment
  • Miss Subways
  • Strikes
    • 1966
    • 1980
    • 2005
  • 2000 lawsuit against NYCTA
Infrastructure
  • 58 Joralemon Street
  • Fulton Center
    • Corbin Building
    • Dey Street Passageway
  • Substations
    • 7
    • 18
    • 219
    • 401
    • IRT
    • Dyckman-Hillside
Arts and culture
  • Tiles
  • MTA Arts & Design
  • Music Under New York
  • Showtime (busking)
  • In popular culture
  • Subway Series
  • Mass Transit Super Bowl
Miscellaneous
  • Map
  • Nomenclature
  • Automation and signals
  • Chaining
  • Fares
    • MetroCard
    • Pizza Principle
  • Subway Challenge
Other rapid
transit in NYC
  • AirTrain JFK
  • Port Authority Trans-Hudson
  • Staten Island Railway
    • Stations
Historical
Beach Pneumatic Transit

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Images for kids

  • Linea L metropolitana di New York

    Overview of the BMT Canarsie Line

  • Livonia Canarsie junction jeh

    Junction with New Lots Line

  • Canarsie N7 St Billyburg fan plant jeh

    Fan house for tunnel

  • NYCSubway8253 on the L line

    The automation of the Canarsie Line required the purchase of the R143 orders on the L route, which runs on the Canarsie Line

  • 14th Street Tunnel after Hurricane Sandy vc

    Tunnels flooded by Hurricane Sandy

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