9 (New York City Subway service)

9 was a designation given to several services of the New York City Subway.

Flushing Line (BMT; 1917–48)

From 1917, Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) services on the IRT Flushing Line were assigned the number 9, used on maps but not on trains; IRT services used the designation 7 instead. When the joint BMT-IRT operation on the Flushing Line, provided for under the Dual Contracts, was discontinued, the BMT designation 9 was also canceled.

Dyre Avenue Line (1941–66)

9 DYRE AVE

The 9 designation was originally used for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT)'s Dyre Avenue Line upon its opening in 1941 between Dyre Avenue and the East 180th Street platforms of the former New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, connecting to the IRT White Plains Road Line at the latter station. When a connection between the Dyre Avenue Line and the White Plains Road Line opened in 1957, daytime shuttle service was replaced with through service as the 2. From 1957 till 1966, the nighttime Dyre Avenue Shuttle continued to use the number 9. Since 1967, the Dyre Avenue Shuttle runs during late night hours, but now carries the number 5, the same as the through service on the line.

Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line skip-stop service (1989–2005)

Broadway-Seventh Avenue Local
A train made of R62A cars in 9 service at South Ferry in 2004.
Northern end	Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street
Southern end	South Ferry
Stations	32
Started service	August 21, 1989
Discontinued	May 27, 2005

History

The second and most recent usage of the 9 designation was a skip-stop service to complement the 1 local train on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line as the 9 Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line Local. Beginning at 6:30 AM on Monday, August 21, 1989,^[1] the services were coordinated as the 1/9 and both ran between Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street and South Ferry. The skip-stop operation was north of 137th Street.

Midday skip-stop service was discontinued in 1994, but remained during peak hours.^[2] By this time, skip-stop service assigned the following stations to the 1 train only:

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

and the following stations to the 9 train only:

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

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, 1 trains had to be rerouted since the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line ran directly under the World Trade Center site and was heavily damaged in the collapse of the Twin Towers. The 1 ran only between Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street and 14th Street, running local north of 96th Street and express south of there. It later ran to New Lots Avenue via the IRT Eastern Parkway Line, running local on that line, as well as south of 96th Street, replacing the 3 train, which ran between Harlem–148th Street and 14th Street; the 9 service and skip-stop service were suspended at this time. 1 trains returned to South Ferry, and skip-stop service was restored on September 15, 2002.^[3]

As a result of a decrease in the number of riders benefiting from the 9 and skip-stop services, the MTA announced their elimination in mid-2004 and approved it in early 2005. The last 9 train ran on May 27, 2005 and the 1 now makes all stops on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.^[2][4][5]

Route

Service pattern

The 9 service used the following lines during the rush hours only.

Line	From	To	Tracks
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line	Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street	South Ferry	local

Stations

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

	Stations		Subway transfers	Connections and notes
The Bronx
	Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street		1
	231st Street		1
Manhattan
	Marble Hill–225th Street			Metro-North Hudson Line at Marble Hill
	207th Street
	191st Street		1
	181st Street		1	George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal
	168th Street		1  A  C  (IND Eighth Avenue Line)
	145th Street
	137th Street–City College		1
	125th Street		1
	116th Street–Columbia University		1	M60 bus to LaGuardia Airport
	Cathedral Parkway–110th Street		1	M60 bus to LaGuardia Airport
	103rd Street		1
	96th Street		1  2  3
	86th Street		1
	79th Street		1
	72nd Street		1  2  3
	66th Street–Lincoln Center		1
	59th Street–Columbus Circle		1  A  B  C  D  (IND Eighth Avenue Line)
	50th Street		1
	Times Square–42nd Street		1  2  3  7  <7> (IRT Flushing Line) A  C  E  (IND Eighth Avenue Line at 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal) N  Q  R  W  (BMT Broadway Line) S  (42nd Street Shuttle)	Port Authority Bus Terminal
	34th Street–Penn Station		1  2  3	Amtrak, LIRR, and NJ Transit at Pennsylvania Station
	28th Street		1
	23rd Street		1
	18th Street		1
	14th Street		1  2  3  F  V (IND Sixth Avenue Line at 14th Street) L  (BMT Canarsie Line at Sixth Avenue)	PATH at 14th Street Note: V service discontinued
	Christopher Street–Sheridan Square		1	PATH at Christopher Street
	Houston Street		1
	Canal Street		1
	Franklin Street		1
	Chambers Street		1  2  3
	Cortlandt Street			Closed since September 11, 2001
	Rector Street		1
	South Ferry		1	Staten Island Ferry at Whitehall Terminal

References

1. Feinman, Mark S. "The New York City Transit Authority in the 1980s".
2. Chan, Sewell (January 12, 2005). "MTA Proposes Dropping No. 9 Train". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
3. Lueck, Thomas J. (September 15, 2002). "Old Service, Old Stops Restored on West Side". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
4. Chan, Sewell (May 25, 2005). "On Its Last Wheels, No. 9 Line Is Vanishing on Signs". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-30.
5. "Noteworthy - 9 discontinued". 2005-05-07. Archived from the original on 2005-05-07. Retrieved 2016-09-18.

External links

• 9 Train Timetable (2003)