List of New York City Subway services

• The 6 service has a midday (2a) and rush hour (1a) diamond Bronx express service labeled <6>, in addition to 6 local service.[7]
• The 7 service has a rush hour (1a), and evening (3c) diamond Queens express service labeled <7>, in addition to 7 local service.[8]
• Overnights (5), the A train between 104th Street and Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard is replaced by a shuttle which originates at Euclid Avenue.[10] This service has been labeled on the late-night map as (gray A) and on trains as (blue S).
• The F service has a rush hour (1a), diamond Brooklyn express service labeled <F>, in addition to F local service.[15]

Several services operate shorter routes during lower ridership hours, but these are neither signed differently nor counted as separate services. Although service changes caused by General Orders for construction occur on most days during midday and overnight hours, and throughout most weekends, these changes are not counted as separate services.

Because of some terminal station capacity constraints, numerous services operate to a secondary terminal as well as their usual terminus during peak hours.

• Limited rush hour 2 trains operate to and from a different southern terminal (New Lots Avenue).[3]
• Limited rush hour 4 trains are extended to and from New Lots Avenue.[5]
• Limited rush hour 5 trains operate to and from two different northern terminals (Nereid Avenue and Gun Hill Road) and two different southern terminals (New Lots Avenue and Utica Avenue).[6]
• Limited rush hour E trains operate to and from a different northern terminal (Jamaica–179th Street).[14]
• Limited rush hour N trains operate from a different northern terminal (96th Street).[20][26]
• Limited rush hour Q trains operate along different Brooklyn lines in the northbound direction (BMT Sea Beach and Fourth Avenue Lines).[27]
• One rush hour R train operates to a different northern terminal (96th Street).[22][28]
• Limited rush hour W trains are extended to and from 86th Street.[25]

The "2007 Holiday Shopper's Special", which ran on December Sundays, is a train of museum subway cars. This particular car is displaying the (former) S Special on its rollsign at the 23rd Street (Sixth Avenue) station.

The following lines run in special service or after sporting and other events:

• The 4 train has a downtown-only express from 161st Street–Yankee Stadium to Bowling Green after events at Yankee Stadium.
• The 7 train has a Manhattan-bound "Super Express" from Mets–Willets Point, operating express, and also bypassing Junction Boulevard, Hunters Point Avenue and Vernon Boulevard–Jackson Avenue after New York Mets games weeknights and weekends at Citi Field, as well as after US Open tennis matches.
• The Holiday Nostalgia Train, which is made up of retired subway cars, runs Sunday mornings and mid-days from Thanksgiving until the Sunday before Christmas. For the 2022 holiday season, the train, signed as the 1 train, travels via IRT trackage between 137th Street and Chambers Street.[29] In previous years, this train, marked as S | Special, ran via IND trackage to Second Avenue, with northern terminals at Queens Plaza and 145th Street.[30]

The schedule offers trains every 3 to 5 minutes on the most used sections during rush hours. During other traffic periods, intervals range usually from 4 to 12 minutes or up to 20 minutes on outer sections. During late nights, only selected express services are operated and all late-night services usually run every 20 minutes.

Train headways in minutes as of August 2023
Period	[2]	[3]	[4]	[5]	[6]	[7]	[8]	(42nd St.) [9]	[10]	[11]	[12]	[13]	[14]	[15]	[16]	[17]	[18]	[19]	[20]	[21]	[22]	[25]	(Fkln. Ave.) [23]	(Rock. Park) [24]
Rush hours	3	6-7	6-7	4-5	5-6	2-4	2-3	2-4	4-5	7-9	9-10	6-7	4	4-5	6-9	5-8	4-5	8-10	6-8	6-8	6-8	8-10	10	12-28
Middays	6	7-8	8-9	7-8	8-9	4	5	5	7-10	10	8	10	7-8	7-8	10	10	4-6	10	8	8	8	10	10	13-17
Evenings	10	8-12	12	10	10-12	10-12	5-8	5	10-12	—	12	10-12	6-10	8-10	8-12	12-15	7-12	12-15	10-12	8-12	12	10	12-15	15-20
Weekends	6-8	8-12	12	8-12	12	6-8	4-8	5	10	—	12	10-15	12	12	8	8-10	4-10	8-10	10-12	8-10	12	—	10-15	15-20
Late nights	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	—	20	—	—	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	—	20	20
The 3 train runs late nights Harlem–148th Street ↔ 42nd Street only. Between Crown Heights–Utica Avenue and New Lots Avenue, 4 train operates during this time.[4] The 5 train runs late nights Eastchester-Dyre Avenue ↔ East 180th Street only. During rush hours, 5 train runs express between East 180th Street and Third Avenue–149th Street in the peak direction; this is the reason for the different intervals shown in the table.[6] Every other 6 train runs express between Third Avenue–138th Street and Parkchester from 06:30 until 12:30 only in inbound direction and from 12:30 until 21:00 only in outbound direction. Local trains terminate at Parkchester while express trains continue as locals to Pelham Bay Park during PM rush hours.[7] Every other 7 train runs express from 06:30 until 10:00 only in inbound direction and from 14:30 until 22:00 only in outbound direction.[8] The A train, except overnights, serves both the Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard and Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue termini approximately alternating; five daily trains originate/terminate at Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street during rush hours in the peak direction. Overnights, just the Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue terminus is regularly served, with the Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard terminus served by an A shuttle operating from Euclid Avenue.[10] Two F trains in the AM rush hour, and two in the PM rush hour, operate peak-direction express in Brooklyn between Jay Street and Church Avenue.[15] Every other J train is designated as a Z train during rush hours in the peak direction; both J & Z operate skip-stop between Sutphin Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue during these times.[17] The M train operates as a shuttle between Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue and Myrtle Avenue from 23:00 until 06:30, and on weekends between Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue and Essex Street[19] The R train operates between Whitehall Street and 95th Street during late nights.[22]

This is a list of average train frequencies during different times of the day, measured in trains per hour (tph). This chart shows frequencies as of July 2023 based on the train intervals listed in timetables, with a margin of error of 2 tph.

Trains per hour
Period	[2]	[3]	[4]	[5]	[6]	[7]	[7]	[8]	[8]	(42nd St.) [9]	[10]	[11]	[12]	[13]	[14]	[15]	[15]	[16]	[17]	[17]	[18]	[19]	[20]	[21]	[22]	[25]	(Fkln. Ave.) [23]	(Rock. Pk.) [24]
Rush hours	20	9–10 [note 1]	9–10	14.5 [note 1]	14.5 [note 1] [note 2]	12–15	12–15	10–15	10–15	20	15 [note 3]	8	6–7	10	15 [note 4]	14.5	2 [note 5]	6–8	6	6	12–15	7–8	7.5	7.5	7.5	6-7	6	5
Middays, evenings, and weekends[note 6]	10	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	12	—	12	8 [note 7]	6	6-7.5	6	8	8	—	7.5	6-7.5	—	10	6-7.5	6	6	6	6	6	6
Late nights	3	3	3	3	3	3	—	3	—	—	6 [note 8]	—	—	3	3	3	—	3	3	—	3	3	3	3	3	—	3	3