![207th Street Yard Train of Many Colors](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/207th_Street_Yard_Train_of_Many_Colors.JPG)
The
New York City Transit Authority
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, or simply Transit, and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a New York state public-benefit corporations, public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York (state), New ...
operates a total of 24
rail yard
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or u ...
s for the
New York City Subway system, and one for the
Staten Island Railway.
There are 10 active
A Division yards and 11 active
B Division B Division, Division B, or variant may refer to:
* ''B Division'' (New York City Subway)
* ''B Division'' (Irish League), association football
* ''Division B'' (Scottish Football League)
* ''Divizia B'' (Romanian Football League)
* Moldovan "B ...
yards, two of which are shared between divisions for storage and car washing. In addition, there is one yard for the
Staten Island Railway and three non-revenue (Maintenance of Way, or MoW) Division-independent yards. Many of the system's yards are used for off-peak storage, whereas some have inspection facilities where basic routine maintenance is carried out. Of these yards,
rolling stock
The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars. Passenger vehicles can ...
are assigned to seven A Division yards and seven B Division yards. Within the yards are 14 maintenance facilities, whereas two yards (207th Street and Coney Island) perform major overhaul and car rebuilding work.
A Division yards
The
A Division's yards consist of the 239th Street, 240th Street, Corona, East 180th Street, Jerome, Livonia, and Westchester maintenance yards, plus three other non-maintenance storage yards. A total of 2892 cars are assigned to the seven maintenance yards.
137th Street Yard
The 137th Street Yard is an underground
rail yard
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or u ...
located between
145th Street and
137th Street–City College on the
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (also known as the IRT Seventh Avenue Line or the IRT West Side Line) is a New York City Subway line. It is one of several lines that serves the A Division, stretching from South Ferry in Lower Manhatta ...
, the latter of which is the yard's namesake.
The yard has five tracks surrounding the three mainline tracks, with three tracks located on the west (southbound side) and two tracks located on the east (northbound side).
The yard is used to store some trains outside of rush hours. Each track can hold two full-length trains, so a total of 10 trains can be stored there at any given time. Because the tracks are on a 1% downgrade in the southbound direction, each of the layup tracks are equipped with a derail to protect the main line from a runaway train in the event a train placed on any one the storage tracks is not properly secured.
239th Street Yard
![R110a r62a at 239th street yard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/R110a_r62a_at_239th_street_yard.JPG)
The 239th Street Yard is the northernmost rail yard in the system, located at 4570 Furman Avenue in the
Wakefield
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section of the North Bronx, and is home to the
R142s assigned to the . There is also considerable fleet interoperability with the , as 5 trains are based out of the nearby East 180th Street Yard and share a similarly-sized fleet. 5 trains use the upper portion of the yard for off-peak storage. Opened in 1916, it is one of the oldest yards in the system.
Ten cars are inspected each day as part of preventative scheduled maintenance. A wheel truing machine was installed here to minimize damage to rail cars and tracks caused by flat wheels. This shop was also used as a facility to retrofit all R26s, R28s, R29s, R33s (except single unit Worlds Fair cars) and R36s (both Mainline and Worlds Fair types) married pairs IRT type cars with the installation of new Stone-Safety 10 ton Air Conditioning systems between 1976 and 1981. Also, during this period, all cars assigned to the were inspected and maintained at the East 180th Street Yard shared with the . It re-opened as an inspection and maintenance facility for the in 1982. A car wash operates at this yard facility to serve cars assigned to the 2, in addition to cars assigned to the , , and 5 routes.
The yard consists of a seven-track inspection shop and 38 layup tracks. The layup tracks are arranged on two levels; the only other yard in the system to share this trait is the East New York Yard. Access to the yard is provided to and from
Nereid Avenue only.
On February 3, 1998, two out-of-service trains collided at the yard lead after the motorman of one train passed out at the helm and his train crashed into the one in front of it.
240th Street Yard
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The 240th Street Yard, also known as Van Cortlandt Yard (or VC Yard), is located at 5911 Broadway in the
Riverdale section of
the Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
, serving the
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (also known as the IRT Seventh Avenue Line or the IRT West Side Line) is a New York City Subway line. It is one of several lines that serves the A Division, stretching from South Ferry in Lower Manhatta ...
near the line's northern terminus. The yard consists of six inspection tracks in the shop and 15 additional layup tracks. The yard is home to the
R62A subway cars assigned to the . The shop was built in 1906 to support the
original IRT subway. Work constructing the yard and inspection shed was 60 percent complete in June 1910, and was estimated to be completed by January 1, 1911.
The inspection shed went into service on May 1, 1911.
The yard and shops are entirely on an elevated structure. There is no car washer at this yard; the trains occasionally go to the 239th Street or Westchester Yard to be washed, but they usually go to the nearby 207th Street Yard instead. Ten cars undergo 10,000 mile SMS inspections per day, since their entire fleet has been unitized into five-car sets.
As part of the 2020–2024 Capital Plan, the shop will be rebuilt with more space in between track and the replacement of pits with elevated tracks.
Corona Yard
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Corona Yard serves as the home yard of the
IRT Flushing Line
The IRT Flushing Line is a rapid transit route of the New York City Subway system, named for its eastern terminal in Flushing, Queens. It is operated as part of the A Division. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), a private operator, ...
(). It is located south of
Mets–Willets Point, at
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park near
Citi Field
Citi Field is a baseball stadium located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in New York City, United States. It opened in 2009 and is the home field of Major League Baseball's New York Mets. The stadium was built as a replacement for the adjacent ...
, the
National Tennis Center, and the site of the
1939 and
1964
Events January
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* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
World's Fairs.
Corona Yard opened in 1928 and maintains the
R188s used on the . It is adjacent to the
Casey Stengel Bus Depot
MTA Regional Bus Operations operates local and express buses serving New York City in the United States out of 29 bus depots. These depots are located in all five boroughs of the city, with the exception of one located in nearby Yonkers in Westc ...
. Because the Flushing Line is isolated from the rest of the A Division and its only track connection to the rest of the system is via the B Division, cars that need to undergo or are returning from heavy maintenance are escorted on and off the line by suitably-equipped lead cars via the sole connection to the rest of the system just east (railroad north) of the upper level
Queensboro Plaza station.
On August 16, 2006, the original 1928 shop building was demolished and replaced by a new, modern shop. With more track mileage to cover and tighter spacing between trains as part of CBTC implementation on the Flushing Line, the MTA announced plans to expand the yard with a second loop and six layup tracks, which would be located on the former right of way of the Long Island Rail Road's Whitestone Branch. Plans for this expansion are on an indefinite hold, however.
East 180th Street Yard
![IRT E180-UnionP Yard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/IRT_E180-UnionP_Yard.JPG)
The East 180th Street Yard is situated at 1145 East 180th Street in the
West Farms neighborhood of
the Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
, just east of the
Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo (also historically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York. It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in ...
. The yard consists of eight storage tracks and an adjacent 12-track shop building with a connection to the nearby 19-track Unionport Yard, which lies to the northeast of East 180th Street Yard.
The yard is the home of the
R142s for the . There is considerable fleet interchange with the . All new car engineering's acceptance testing for newly delivered IRT type cars are performed from here. A new shop building replacing the original 1918 vintage shop building opened in 1999, just in time for acceptance testing of new R142s, which Bombardier started delivering to this facility on November 16, 1999. On October 11, 1923, additional tracks in the yard went into service.
Jerome Yard
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The Jerome Yard, or Mosholu Yard, is located at 3191 Jerome Avenue in the
Jerome Park neighborhood of
the Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
. The yard was built in 1925. Five tracks went into service in the yard on February 7, 1923.
This yard is home to the
R142s and
R142As for the . It is one of the three yards in the system to be under a housing complex (Pitkin Yard and Lenox Yard are the others). Rail access to the yard is by a pair of tracks that branch off of the elevated
IRT Jerome Avenue Line
The IRT Jerome Avenue Line, also unofficially known as IRT Woodlawn Line and IRT Burnside Avenue Line is an A Division New York City Subway line mostly along Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. Originally an Interborough Rapid Transit Company-operated r ...
just north of
Bedford Park Boulevard–Lehman College station. The riveted steel pylons that support the elevated branch tracks give way to stone pylons just north of 205th Street before they enter the yard. The yard is surrounded by a wall and covered by a parking deck used by residents of the Tracey Towers housing complex. The yard has four inspection tracks, one utility track and 18 layup tracks. Trains are washed at the nearby Concourse Yard.
Lenox Yard
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Lenox Yard, formerly the Lenox Avenue Shops, is located near 148th Street and Lenox Avenue in
Harlem
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and Central Park North on the south. The greater Ha ...
. This 22 track yard is only used for storage of the
R62s that operate on the service, and has no maintenance facility, although the yard had been the first overhaul shop for the
IRT when it opened with the rest of the
new subway in 1904.
The original IRT subway cars were lowered from the street via inclines into the yard, where they continued into the
West Side Main Line.
The inspection shed was lengthened to fit ten-car trains in Fiscal Year 1910.
On September 9, 1958 the Transit Authority announced that it was planning to abandon the Lenox Avenue Shops. All IRT and IND repairs would then be done at the 207th Street Shops by June 1959. The TA estimated that this would result in a saving of $1 million a year. Formerly extending between 147th and 150th Streets, in the 1960s the yard was downsized from 26 acres to seven acres, which eliminated the repair shops and NYCT offices. The land was sold to a developer.
Around that time, a public school building (currently housing
Frederick Douglass Academy
Frederick Douglass Academy (also known as FDA), is a co-educational public school for grades 6-12 located in West Harlem, New York City. The school offers an SAT prep course program and a variety of Advance Placement (AP) college courses that you ...
) and the Esplanade Gardens apartment complex were constructed on
pilotis
Pilotis, or piers, are supports such as columns, pillars, or stilts that lift a building above ground or water. They are traditionally found in stilt and pole dwellings such as fishermen's huts in Asia and Scandinavia using wood, and in elev ...
above the formerly open-air yard.
Two tracks were taken from the yard for the
Harlem–148th Street station, which opened in 1968 as the current northern terminal for the 3.
Livonia Yard
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The Livonia Yard is located at 900 Hegeman Avenue in
East New York, Brooklyn on an entirely elevated structure at the east end of the
IRT New Lots Line
The IRT New Lots Line or Livonia Avenue Line is a rapid transit line in the A Division of the New York City Subway. Located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the line runs from the Crown Heights–Utica Avenue station in Crown Heights ...
. Located between Elton and Linwood Streets, the yard extends from Hegeman Avenue south to Stanley Avenue, passing over
Linden Boulevard
Linden Boulevard is a boulevard in New York City. It starts off at Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn as a one-way street to Caton Avenue, where it becomes a two-way boulevard, and stretches through both Brooklyn and Queens. This boulevard, esp ...
. One of the smallest maintenance yards in the system, it is where the
R62s on the and the
R62As on the 42nd Street shuttle are inspected and maintained.
The yard, built in 1922 and opened in 1923, Livonia Yard is the only
IRT yard in
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
. Livonia Yard consists of 4 inspection tracks inside the Livonia shop and 15 layup tracks.
A signal tower is located at the northwest corner of the yard. Many trains are stored in the Lenox Yard in
Upper Manhattan
Upper Manhattan is the most northern region of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its southern boundary has been variously defined, but some of the most common usages are 96th Street, the northern boundary of Central Park (110th Street), ...
, as Livonia is not very large.
Livonia, along with 240th Street Yard, are on entirely elevated structures and are in need of rehabilitation due to not meeting the configuration standards for "current industry practices".
An extension of the New Lots Line has been proposed up to the end of the yard, or through the yard right-of-way to
Flatlands Avenue, to serve the developing
Spring Creek
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Additionally, a large amount of space within Livonia is used for the storage of some
R142s and
R142As for the , and trains.
Unionport Yard
Unionport Yard is associated with the nearby
East 180th Street Yard
The New York City Transit Authority operates a total of 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system, and one for the Staten Island Railway. There are 10 active A Division yards and 11 active B Division yards, two of which are shared betw ...
, and is used primarily as a lay-up facility for and trains.
It is named after Unionport Road, which lies just east of the yard. There are no shop or wash facilities at this yard, which was expanded in the 1990s from five tracks to its present 19. All but one track ends at bumper blocks. The newly expanded yard became fully operational in 1997. The yard connects to the
IRT White Plains Road Line
The White Plains Road Line is a rapid transit line of the A Division of the New York City Subway serving the central Bronx. It is mostly elevated and served both subway and elevated trains until 1952. The original part of the line, the part op ...
to the south and the
IRT Dyre Avenue Line
The IRT Dyre Avenue Line (formerly the IND Dyre Avenue–East 174th Street Line) is a New York City Subway rapid transit line, part of the A Division. It is a branch of the IRT White Plains Road Line in the northeastern section of the Bronx, n ...
to the north.
West Farms Yard
The West Farms Yard was an elevated
rail yard
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or u ...
that was located adjacently to the
West Farms Square–East Tremont Avenue station, at the time called 177th Street. It had eight storage tracks and five inspection barn tracks. It was demolished in 1950; the redundant
180th Street–Bronx Park station was closed down and demolished two years later.
In addition to serving
Manhattan Elevated Railway cars, it also used to service cars assigned to the and routes.
Westchester Yard
The Westchester Yard, also known as the Pelham Yard, is located in the
Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
and has 45 layup tracks. The yard maintains and stores the
R62As used on the , as well as
Maintenance of Way
Maintenance of way (commonly abbreviated to MOW) refers to the maintenance, construction, and improvement of rail infrastructure, including tracks, ballast, grade, and lineside infrastructure such as signals and signs.
Track
The most fundamen ...
diesel trains for both the
A Division and
B Division B Division, Division B, or variant may refer to:
* ''B Division'' (New York City Subway)
* ''B Division'' (Irish League), association football
* ''Division B'' (Scottish Football League)
* ''Divizia B'' (Romanian Football League)
* Moldovan "B ...
. It is connected to the
IRT Pelham Line
The IRT Pelham Line is a rapid transit line on the New York City Subway, operated as part of the A Division and served by the 6 and <6> trains. It was built as part of the Dual Contracts expansion and opened between 1918 and 1920. It is ...
in both directions between
Westchester Square–East Tremont Avenue and
Middletown Road stations.
There is a four-track inspection shed for electric trains and a two-track diesel repair shop. Pelham Yard also has a car wash used by the entire A Division.
The Westchester Yard was expanded between 1946 and 1949 and the scope of the project included a new signal tower, signal installations, and the elimination of the grade crossings between the yard and the Pelham Line north of the Westchester Square station. All of these projects would allow for sped up main line service and train movements in and out of the yard. The grade separation allowed trains to enter Westchester Yard without crossing the express track or the downtown local track and it allowed for the possibility of the extension of express service to
Pelham Bay Park
Pelham Bay Park is a municipal park located in the northeast corner of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It is, at , the largest public park in New York City. The park is more than three times the size of Manhattan's Central Park. The pa ...
, which would save four more minutes. The increased capacity of the yard allowed the yard to store 358 additional subway cars. With the additional storage space, it would no longer be required to lay up trains on the middle track of the line between East 177th Street and Pelham Bay Park, and it would allow for full day express service. The construction of substations would improve voltage conditions and allow for longer trains to be operated on the line. The work was projected to cost $6,387,000 and be completed in 1950.
B Division yards
The
B Division B Division, Division B, or variant may refer to:
* ''B Division'' (New York City Subway)
* ''B Division'' (Irish League), association football
* ''Division B'' (Scottish Football League)
* ''Divizia B'' (Romanian Football League)
* Moldovan "B ...
's yards are the 207th Street, Concourse, Coney Island, East New York, Jamaica and Pitkin maintenance yards, plus five other non-maintenance storage yards. The six maintenance shops are responsible for performing daily subway car maintenance and inspection of 3,523 subway cars.
The 207th Street and Concourse yards are shared with the A Division and are listed in Yards in both divisions.
174th Street Yard
The 174th Street Yard is an underground rail yard on the
IND Eighth Avenue Line
The IND Eighth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line in New York City, United States, and is part of the B Division of the New York City Subway. Opened in 1932, it was the first line of the Independent Subway System (IND), and the ''Eighth Avenu ...
that is used to store trains. The yard has five tracks to the east of the two mainline passenger service tracks. The yard is located six blocks north of
168th Street and adjacent to
175th Street. The inner tracks at 168th Street lead towards the yard and are used by terminating C trains.
This yard can hold only four ten-car 60-foot trains/eight-car 75-foot trains and one four-car 60-foot train among the five tracks. The northern end of the yard is against a concrete wall and a cinder-block wall adjacent to the
Trans-Manhattan Expressway
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, as the line was originally intended to go over the
George Washington Bridge
The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting Fort Lee, New Jersey, with Manhattan in New York City. The bridge is named after George Washington, the first president of the United S ...
's lower level as a part of a possible extension to Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Canarsie Yard
![Canarsie yard jeh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Canarsie_yard_jeh.JPG)
The Canarsie Yard (also known as AY or Atlantic Yard from its
telegraph
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas p ...
y letters) is located on the south end of the
BMT Canarsie Line
The BMT Canarsie Line (sometimes referred to as the 14th Street–Eastern Line) is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway system, named after its terminus in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is served by the ...
adjacent to
Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway. Opened on October 26, 1917,
it is the primary layup yard for the R160s and R143s on the train and hosts the only car wash for the BMT Eastern Division.
New signals were installed in 2003 in conjunction with the
BMT Canarsie Line automation project.
Church Avenue Yard
The Church Avenue Yard is an underground rail yard on the
IND Culver Line
The IND Culver Line (formerly BMT Culver Line) is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway, extending from Downtown Brooklyn south to Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. The local tracks of the C ...
that is used to store trains for service. It is composed of four tracks directly under the four main line tracks above. This yard is directly connected through the line's
Church Avenue station which is the southern terminus for G service. At least one of the yard's four tracks is in continuous use to reverse equipment to the opposite direction. There are two ramps between each local and express track south of Church Avenue station for access. Each track can hold one full-length train between the
bumper blocks and the crossovers.
Coney Island Complex
![Coney Island Complex Workshop](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Coney_Island_Complex_Workshop.JPG)
The Coney Island Rapid Transit Car Overhaul Shop, often shortened to Coney Island Complex, is the largest
rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be ...
yard in the state of New York, and one of the largest in North America.
Located in
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
,
New York, it covers and operates
24/7
In commerce and industry, 24/7 or 24-7 service (usually pronounced "twenty-four seven") is service that is available at any time and usually, every day. An alternate orthography for the numerical part includes 24×7 (usually pronounced "twenty ...
.
The complex was built in 1926 on former
marshland
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found at ...
s that, along with
Coney Island Creek, used to separate
Coney Island from the main body of Brooklyn.
Much of this land had originally been proposed for use as a
ship canal
A ship canal is a canal especially intended to accommodate ships used on the oceans, seas, or lakes to which it is connected.
Definition
Ship canals can be distinguished from barge canals, which are intended to carry barges and other vessel ...
and
port
A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as H ...
facility.
A car washing machine was installed in the yard at the end of 1964.
Regular scheduled maintenance is performed here for a fleet of nearly 800 cars of
R46s,
R68s,
R68As, serving the , , , , and
Franklin Avenue Shuttle
The Franklin Avenue Shuttle is a New York City Subway shuttle service operating in Brooklyn. The shuttle service uses the BMT Franklin Avenue Line exclusively. The north terminus is Franklin Avenue, with a transfer available to the IND Fulton ...
. R68s on the , and
R160s on the and routes, are stored at the yard but are not maintained or inspected here. The shop facility, along with the 207th Street Shops, performs inspections, heavy maintenance and overhaul for every one of the approximately 6,000 cars in the subway system, including the
Staten Island Railway, and also contains car washing and painting facilities.
In addition to heavy maintenance facilities and track facilities for cars undergoing maintenance and overhaul, the complex includes three related railroad storage yards.
The main yard facility, known as Coney Island Yard, includes direct connections to the adjacent
BMT Sea Beach Line
The BMT Sea Beach Line is a rapid transit line of the BMT division of the New York City Subway, connecting the BMT Fourth Avenue Line at 59th Street via a four-track wide open cut to Coney Island in Brooklyn. It has at times hosted the fastest ...
() and a two-track elevated structure to the
BMT West End Line (). The main yard also serves trains on the
BMT Brighton Line
The BMT Brighton Line, also known as the Brighton Beach Line, is a rapid transit line in the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Local service is provided at all times by the Q train, but is joined ...
() via tracks C & D (also known as 3 & 4, respectively) of
Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue
Coney may refer to:
Places
* Côney, a river in eastern France
* Coney, Georgia, an unincorporated community in the United States
* Coney Island (disambiguation)
People
* Dean Coney (born 1963), English footballer
* Hykiem Coney (1982–200 ...
station. The adjacent but separate Culver Yard (also called City Yard or Avenue X Yard) connects to the
IND Culver Line
The IND Culver Line (formerly BMT Culver Line) is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway, extending from Downtown Brooklyn south to Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. The local tracks of the C ...
() at the eastern border of the yard complex, holding cars for the F service. Another yard, the Stillwell Yard, used mainly for off-peak train storage, is located across the Sea Beach Line from the main yard complex in a
wye between the divergent Sea Beach and West End Lines.
In addition to the maintenance shop and yards, there is a Health Center (gym) and medical center for Transit Authority employees, a firing range for the
New York City Police Department
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, the largest and one of the oldest in ...
(NYPD)'s Transit Division, and a firefighting training school.
The range was originally built for the
New York City Transit Police
The New York City Transit Police Department was a law enforcement agency in New York City that existed from 1953 (with the creation of the New York City Transit Authority) to 1995, and is currently part of the NYPD. The roots of this organizat ...
Department, which was merged with the NYPD in 1995.
The
Coney Island Yard Electric Motor Repair Shop and
Coney Island Yard Gatehouse were listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2006.
Gatehouse
Coney Island Yard Gatehouse is a historic
gatehouse
A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance. Gatehouses are typically the mo ...
located at the Coney Island Complex. It was built about 1929 and is a small masonry building with prominent clay tile roof with deep overhanging eaves.
[ See also: ]
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 2006.
Electric Motor Repair Shop
The Coney Island Yard Electric Motor Repair Shop is a historic motor
repair shop for subway trains located at the Coney Island Complex. It was built between 1925 and 1927 and is a simple two-story, box-shaped brick-clad building lit by multiple banks of large, multi-paned windows and a massive
sawtooth skylight.
[ See also: ]
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 2006.
East New York Yard
![East New York Yard from Broadway Junction, December 2017](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/East_New_York_Yard_from_Broadway_Junction%2C_December_2017.JPG)
East New York Yard (also known as DO (District Office) Yard from its
telegraph
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas p ...
y letters) is primarily used to store the
R143s used on the and sometimes the
J and Z,
R160s used on the , , , and , and
R179
The R179 is a class of 318 New Technology Train subway cars built by Bombardier Transportation for the New York City Subway's B Division. Entering service between 2017 and 2020, the cars replaced all remaining R32s and R42s.
The R179 order ...
s used on the
J and Z. Subway equipment is inspected and maintained here on a regular basis.
It is located at the junction of the
Canarsie and
Jamaica Lines near the intersection of Broadway and Jamaica Avenue in
East New York, Brooklyn. A separate part of the facility houses the
East New York Bus Depot
MTA Regional Bus Operations operates local and express buses serving New York City in the United States out of 29 bus depots. These depots are located in all five boroughs of the city, with the exception of one located in nearby Yonkers in Westc ...
, formerly a
trolley depot.
The yard is entirely equipped with hand-operated switches. Only the Fresh Pond Yard and 36th–38th Street Yard share this characteristic.
Portions of the yard date back to 1885 and the
Lexington Avenue Elevated and the yard predates the rebuilding of nearby
Broadway Junction, which used to be known as Manhattan Junction or
East New York Loop
The East New York Loop was a short rapid transit structure in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, connecting the Fulton Street Elevated and Broadway Elevated, and its associated service patterns. The changes were unpopular ...
.
This yard's layup tracks are situated on 2 different levels, just like 239th Street Yard.
The yard and its main lead configuration remained the same before and after the extensive elevated line rebuilding nearby, but additional track and structure was built, so that, at its peak, East New York Yard had direct connections to the Broadway Elevated going west, Jamaica Line going east, Canarsie Line going east, and
Fulton Street Elevated
The Fulton Street Line, also called the Fulton Street Elevated or Kings County Line, was an elevated rail line mostly in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It ran above Fulton Street from Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn in Downtown Brooklyn east t ...
both east and west.
Fresh Pond Yard
The Fresh Pond Yard in
Ridgewood, Queens
Ridgewood is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It borders the neighborhoods of Maspeth, Middle Village and Glendale, as well as the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick and East Williamsburg. Historically, the neighborhood st ...
is located to the back of the
Fresh Pond Bus Depot
MTA Regional Bus Operations operates local and express buses serving New York City in the United States out of 29 bus depots. These depots are located in all five boroughs of the city, with the exception of one located in nearby Yonkers in Westch ...
, which was formerly a
trolley depot.
Opened with an extension of the
BMT Myrtle Avenue Line
The Myrtle Avenue Line, also called the Myrtle Avenue Elevated, is a fully elevated line of the New York City Subway as part of the BMT division. The line is the last surviving remnant of one of the original Brooklyn elevated railroads. The rem ...
in 1906,
it is normally used for storing the
R160As that run on the . General maintenance of the cars is performed at East New York Yard. It is located between
Fresh Pond Road and
Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue on the
BMT Myrtle Avenue Line
The Myrtle Avenue Line, also called the Myrtle Avenue Elevated, is a fully elevated line of the New York City Subway as part of the BMT division. The line is the last surviving remnant of one of the original Brooklyn elevated railroads. The rem ...
, but it is only accessible from the latter station. Trains must first platform there and then reverse into the yard. The yard is entirely equipped with hand-operated switches. Only East New York Yard and 36th–38th Street Yard share this characteristic.
Jamaica Yard
![Jamaica Yard, view of R160 and R46, Mar 2013](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Jamaica_Yard%2C_view_of_R160_and_R46%2C_Mar_2013.jpg)
Jamaica Yard is located in
Forest Hills, Queens at the southern end of
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park near the
Kew Gardens Interchange
The Kew Gardens Interchange is a complex junction in Kew Gardens, in the center of the New York City borough of Queens serving nearly 600,000 vehicles daily.
Description
The Kew Gardens Interchange is located roughly midway between LaGuardia A ...
. It has served as the primary storage yard for the
IND Queens Boulevard Line since its opening in 1936. The yard connects to the Queens Boulevard Line at a three-way
flying junction
A flying junction or flyover is a railway junction at which one or more diverging or converging tracks in a multiple-track route cross other tracks on the route by bridge to avoid conflict with other train movements. A more technical term is " g ...
just geographically north of the
Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike station. The yard is at surface level, and the four-track approach includes a bridge over the
Grand Central Parkway
The Grand Central Parkway (GCP) is a 14.61-mile (23.51 km) long parkway that stretches from the Triborough Bridge in New York City to Nassau County on Long Island. At the Queens–Nassau border, it becomes the Northern State Parkway, ...
; though the Queens Boulevard Line is underground, the yard lies at a lower elevation than the subway.
The property on which the yard sits used to belong to the Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity, and it was transferred to the
New York City Board of Transportation
The New York City Board of Transportation or the Board of Transportation of the City of New York (NYCBOT or BOT) was a city transit commission and operator in New York City, consisting of three members appointed by the mayor. It was created in ...
on April 2, 1930. The property was used as a pumping station, and once the Board of Transportation acquired the property, wells that were abandoned on the property were disturbed. These wells were connected to the water mains serving Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, and part of Flushing. $50,000 was appropriated to replace these water wells and mains by the
Board of Estimate
A board of estimate is a governing body, particularly in the United States.
Typically, the board's membership will consist of a combination of elected officials from the executive branch (e.g., the mayor or county executive) and the legislative br ...
. Originally, the yard was intended to be built in the vicinity of South Elmhurst and Rego Park at Grand Street and Queens Boulevard. Once the location near Union Turnpike was decided, the communities of Forest Hills and Kew Gardens objected to it, arguing that the values of their properties would go down and the growth of the communities would end. Chairman of the Board of Transportation, John H. Delaney, overruled them, as the yard's location was not near any homes.
The yard was built for the
Independent Subway System
The Independent Subway System (IND or ISS), formerly known as the Independent City-Owned Subway System (ICOSS) or the Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (ICORTR), was a rapid transit rail system in New York City that is now part of th ...
in the 1930s.
Work was half finished on Jamaica Yard in April 1935, and the total cost of Jamaica Yard and storage sheds was approximately $560,000. Jamaica Yard served as the south end of the
IND World's Fair Line which served the
1939 New York World's Fair from 1939 to 1940.
In August 1964 it was planned that Jamaica Yard have car-washing machines installed in May 1965. The yard is home to the 5-car sets of
R160s, assigned to the , , , and , whose carwash, interior cleaning, grease and minor repair services are provided by the yard.
Some R160As for the are stored here as well during weekdays, but are not maintained here, as the M uses shorter, four-car sets maintained at East New York Yard.
There are more subway cars assigned to Jamaica Yard than to any other rapid transit yard in the city. As a result, there is chronic overcrowding at the existing facility. The
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York. The MTA is the largest public transit authority in th ...
plans to enlarge this yard due to this overcrowding; many trains are stored on the IND Queens Boulevard mainline express tracks east of
71st Avenue and the
179th Street station's relay yard during off-peak periods. This expansion will double the storage capacity of the facility.
The expansion project has been planned since the 1982–1986 MTA Capital Program.
The four yard leads will also be equipped with
communications-based train control
Communications-based train control (CBTC) is a railway signaling system that uses telecommunications between the train and track equipment for traffic management and infrastructure control. CBTC allows a train's position to be known more accurat ...
(CBTC) as part of the
installation of CBTC on the Queens Boulevard Line.
Pitkin Yard
![Pitkin Av Yard jeh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Pitkin_Av_Yard_jeh.JPG)
The Pitkin Yard is located in
East New York, Brooklyn. It holds the Pitkin Shops, which maintain the
R46s used on the , , and
Rockaway Park Shuttle and the
R179s used on the and
Rockaway Park Shuttle.
Track connections from the yard connect both railroad north to
Euclid Avenue and railroad south past
Grant Avenue
Grant Avenue in San Francisco, California, is one of the oldest streets in the city's Chinatown district. It runs in a north–south direction starting at Market Street in the heart of downtown and dead-ending past Francisco Street in the North ...
on the
IND Fulton Street Line. This allows trains to be added or removed from service in either direction.
The site for Pitkin Yard was approved by the Board of Estimate on February 8, 1940 in order to serve the extension of the Fulton Street Line. The total cost for the acquiring the property for the yard was estimated to be $773,000 for 30 acres. The yard opened on November 28, 1948 along with the extension of the IND Fulton Street Line to Euclid Avenue.
Previously an open-air yard,
from 1972 to 1973 the Linden Plaza & Towers Apartment Complex, consisting of several 15-to-17-story apartment buildings, was constructed on a concrete deck on top of this yard.
Rockaway Park Yard
![Rockaway Yard east jeh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Rockaway_Yard_east_jeh.jpg)
Rockaway Park Yard is located in
Rockaway Park, Queens
Rockaway Park is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. The area is on the Rockaway Peninsula, nestled between Jamaica Bay to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. The neighborhood of Rockaway Beach lies on its eastern b ...
. It is an eight-track layup yard for the
R46s and
R179
The R179 is a class of 318 New Technology Train subway cars built by Bombardier Transportation for the New York City Subway's B Division. Entering service between 2017 and 2020, the cars replaced all remaining R32s and R42s.
The R179 order ...
on the
A and the
Rockaway Park Shuttle, although they are primarily maintained at the
Pitkin Yard
The New York City Transit Authority operates a total of 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system, and one for the Staten Island Railway. There are 10 active A Division yards and 11 active B Division yards, two of which are shared betwe ...
in
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
. Seven tracks lie geographically north of the station platform, while another lies geographically south.
![Rockway Yard west jeh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Rockway_Yard_west_jeh.jpg)
This yard is adjacent to
Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street. Like the
IND Rockaway Line
The IND Rockaway Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, operating in Queens. It branches from the IND Fulton Street Line at Rockaway Boulevard, extending over the Jamaica Bay, into the Rockaways. The ...
itself, the Rockaway Yard was originally a yard for the
Rockaway Beach Branch
The Rockaway Beach Branch was a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in Queens, New York City, United States. The line left the Main Line at Whitepot Junction in Rego Park heading south via Ozone Park and across Jamaica ...
of the
Long Island Rail Road. It included a water tower, and a roundhouse.
Yards in both divisions
207th Street Yard
![NYCS 207th St Yard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/NYCS_207th_St_Yard.jpg)
The 207th Street Yard is located in
Inwood in Upper Manhattan between
Tenth Avenue and the
Harlem River
The Harlem River is an tidal strait in New York, United States, flowing between the Hudson River and the East River and separating the island of Manhattan from the Bronx on the New York mainland.
The northern stretch, also called the Spuyt ...
north of the
University Heights Bridge
The University Heights Bridge is a steel-truss revolving swing bridge across the Harlem River in New York City. It connects West 207th Street in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan with West Fordham Road in the University Heights neighbor ...
. The outdoor yard, which was originally constructed for the B Division, extends north from 207th Street to 215th Street.
It serves as the home yard for the
R179s that are used on the . There is a car wash here.
The 207th Street Shop is one of two heavy overhaul shops in the New York City Subway system (the other being the Coney Island Yard in Brooklyn) and it provides for the overhaul and rebuilding of some
A Division cars as well as most
B Division B Division, Division B, or variant may refer to:
* ''B Division'' (New York City Subway)
* ''B Division'' (Irish League), association football
* ''Division B'' (Scottish Football League)
* ''Divizia B'' (Romanian Football League)
* Moldovan "B ...
rolling stock.
The yard stores cars that are being retired or awaiting scrapping, and it also restores cars designated for the
New York Transit Museum
The New York Transit Museum (also called the NYC Transit Museum) is a museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, and commuter rail systems in the greater New York City metropolitan region. The main museum is lo ...
.
It also contains a garbage transfer station.
Formerly, the retired cars that were stored at the yard were stripped of usable parts such as seats and doors, historic memorabilia such as
rollsign
A destination sign (North American English) or destination indicator/destination blind (British English) is a sign mounted on the front, side or rear of a public transport vehicle, such as a bus, tram/streetcar or light rail vehicle, that di ...
s, and toxic materials such as lubricants and
asbestos, after which the cars were scrapped or sunk into
artificial reef
An artificial reef is a human-created underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life in areas with a generally featureless bottom, to control erosion, block ship passage, block the use of trawling nets, or improve surfing.
Many ...
s.
South of the yard, connecting tracks lead to the
IND Eighth Avenue Line
The IND Eighth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line in New York City, United States, and is part of the B Division of the New York City Subway. Opened in 1932, it was the first line of the Independent Subway System (IND), and the ''Eighth Avenu ...
. A separate connecting track and flyover leads to the
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (also known as the IRT Seventh Avenue Line or the IRT West Side Line) is a New York City Subway line. It is one of several lines that serves the A Division, stretching from South Ferry in Lower Manhatta ...
.
A major rehabilitation project for the yard took place in 2016.
Concourse Yard
The Concourse Yard is located in the northern
Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
near the intersection of 205th Street and Jerome Avenue.
The yard was built on the old site of the
Jerome Park Reservoir
The Jerome Park Reservoir is a reservoir located in Jerome Park, a neighborhood in the North Bronx, New York City. The reservoir is surrounded by DeWitt Clinton High School, the Bronx High School of Science, Lehman College, and Walton High Scho ...
. The Reservoir was planned to have two basins, an eastern basin and a western basin. The western basin opened in 1906. The two basins are divided by Goulden Avenue, and land for the eastern basin was cleared and partially excavated in anticipation of construction. The two-basin plan was abandoned in 1912, and the excavated area for the eastern basin was filled and graded. In addition to the building of the subway yard on that site,
Lehman College, three high schools, a park, and several public housing developments were also built there. The yard was built at a depressed grade, 18 feet below grade, to allow for the yard to be roofed over to allow for the construction of buildings. The tracks were spaced apart to permit the placing of stable foundations and columns to support buildings that can could be erected atop the proposed roof of the yard. The yard was originally bounded by Navy Avenue (now Paul Avenue), Jerome Avenue, 205th Street, and Bedford Park Boulevard. Provisions were made to extend the yard south to 198th Street.
In the 1960s, the City University of New York planned to build a new campus for
Bronx Community College by constructing a deck over the yard. In 1970, ground was broken for the $61 million, 13-acre campus, which was going to rest on 800 columns between the yard tracks. The platform over the yard was expected to be completed in July 1971. The project was abandoned after the City discovered that the pillars were built slightly too short, which would have prevented subway cars from entering and leaving the yard had the project been finished. The possibility of building atop the yard was brought back by Bronx
Borough President Ruben Diaz Junior in 2015. In a report, the yard was found to have great potential for development, allowing for the building of mixed-income housing, retail space, and an expansion of Lehman College. The low-end cost for the construction of the deck is projected to cost between $350 and $500 million.
![Concourseydjeh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Concourseydjeh.jpg)
This yard is home to the
R68s assigned to the service. Some
R68s and
R68As assigned to the are also washed and stored here, but not maintained or inspected here. The
R142s and
R142As assigned to the are washed and stored here as well. The yard contains three tracks for maintenance, and 36 storage tracks. The yard itself can store 255 cars, and the inspection shed can accommodate 30 cars.
The yard also contains a car wash, which also washes cars from the nearby Jerome Yard. Connecting tracks lead north from the yard to the
IND Concourse Line
The Concourse Line is an IND rapid transit line of the New York City Subway system. It runs from 205th Street in Norwood, Bronx, primarily under the Grand Concourse, to 145th Street in Harlem, Manhattan. It is the only B Division line, and a ...
and south to the
IRT Jerome Avenue Line
The IRT Jerome Avenue Line, also unofficially known as IRT Woodlawn Line and IRT Burnside Avenue Line is an A Division New York City Subway line mostly along Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. Originally an Interborough Rapid Transit Company-operated r ...
. Concourse Yard is spanned across its middle by Bedford Park Boulevard West, and at its northern end by a 205th Street viaduct.
The Jerome Yard used by the IRT Jerome Avenue Line lies to the north of 205th Street.
![NYCS Concourse yard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/NYCS_Concourse_yard.jpg)
The Concourse Yard Entry Buildings and Concourse Yard Substation were listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 2006.
The former consists of two, three-story brick buildings with only the top story visible from the street that are built next to one another to form a
gateway to the Concourse Yard. They feature ornamental
limestone
Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...
columns and
aluminum
Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. It ha ...
doors. The buildings are connected by an iron bridge that retains its original Art Deco
balustrade.
[ See also: ] The latter is a one-story brick building measuring 50 feet by 100 feet and featuring a brick
parapet
A parapet is a barrier that is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately from the Italian ''parapetto'' (''parare'' 'to cover/defend' and ''petto'' 'chest/breast'). ...
with ornamental
limestone
Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...
and
aluminum
Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. It ha ...
doors.
[ See also: ]
Other yards
36th–38th Street Yard
![Work Equipment Snow Preparations (11716060543)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Work_Equipment_Snow_Preparations_%2811716060543%29.jpg)
The 36th–38th Street Yard, sometimes referred to as simply the 38th Street Yard,
is located between Fifth and Seventh Avenues in
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and Upper New York Bay to the ...
, adjacent to the
Jackie Gleason Bus Depot
MTA Regional Bus Operations operates local and express buses serving New York City in the United States out of 29 bus depots. These depots are located in all five boroughs of the city, with the exception of one located in nearby Yonkers in Westch ...
and the
Ninth Avenue station of the
BMT West End Line.
Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery is a cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery is located between South Slope/ Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park, and lies several blo ...
lies to the north of the yard.
This yard is not normally used for revenue-service train maintenance.
Its primary function is to store diesel and electrically powered maintenance-of-way and other non-revenue service rolling stock. It is also used to transfer trash from garbage collector trains to trucks via platforms inside the yard just south of 37th Street.
There is a control tower for the West End Line at the south end of the yard.
The yard is entirely equipped with hand-operated switches.
Only Fresh Pond Yard and East New York Yard share this characteristic.
The
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York. The MTA is the largest public transit authority in th ...
plans to enlarge, and modernize this yard to accommodate, inspect and maintain additional revenue service trains here, due to chronic overcrowding at their other existing main facilities,
as many trains are stored on the
BMT Fourth Avenue Line
The BMT Fourth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the New York City Subway, mainly running under Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn. The line is served by the D, N, and R at all times; the R typically runs local, while the D and N run express duri ...
's mainline express tracks during off-peak periods.
The expanded yard will also provide much-needed storage space for future
Second Avenue Subway
The Second Avenue Subway (internally referred to as the IND Second Avenue Line by the MTA and abbreviated to SAS) is a New York City Subway line that runs under Second Avenue on the East Side of Manhattan. The first phase of this new line, ...
trains.
Up to twelve storage tracks would be added along with power switches, with some non-revenue trains relocated to other areas.
Plans to expand the yard for revenue service trains have existed since the late 1980s.
This southern part of the yard used to be the center of the
South Brooklyn Railway
The South Brooklyn Railway is a railroad in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is owned by the City of New York and operated by the New York City Transit Authority. Its original main line ran parallel to 38th Street from the Upper New Y ...
(owned by the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) was a public transit holding company formed in 1896 to acquire and consolidate railway lines in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States. It was a prominent corporation and industry leader using ...
), which extended from
Bush Terminal
Industry City (also Bush Terminal) is a historic intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex on the Upper New York Bay waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The northern portion, commonly cal ...
through the north part of the yard, then down Gravesend Avenue and into the Coney Island Yard.
What is now the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot was formerly the site of a train inspection shed.
Linden Shops
![Junius Street switch](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Junius_Street_switch.jpg)
Linden Shops is a track shop, where track switches and other components are assembled. It has track connections to the
IRT New Lots Line
The IRT New Lots Line or Livonia Avenue Line is a rapid transit line in the A Division of the New York City Subway. Located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the line runs from the Crown Heights–Utica Avenue station in Crown Heights ...
and the
BMT Canarsie Line
The BMT Canarsie Line (sometimes referred to as the 14th Street–Eastern Line) is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway system, named after its terminus in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is served by the ...
, but no
third rail
A third rail, also known as a live rail, electric rail or conductor rail, is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway ...
, restricting the facility to diesel-powered trains only. There is also a track connection to the
Long Island Rail Road's
Bay Ridge Branch
The Bay Ridge Branch is a rail line owned by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway in New York City. It is the longest freight-only line of the LIRR, connecting the Montauk Branch and CSX Transporta ...
. This connection is one of two from the subway to the mainline United States rail network (the connection between the
BMT West End Line and the
South Brooklyn Railway
The South Brooklyn Railway is a railroad in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is owned by the City of New York and operated by the New York City Transit Authority. Its original main line ran parallel to 38th Street from the Upper New Y ...
is the other).
Clifton Yard
![Clifton Yard SIRT jeh](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Clifton_Yard_SIRT_jeh.jpg)
The Clifton Yard is the sole yard on the
Staten Island Railway, and is located next to the
Clifton station. Heavy maintenance of equipment is performed at the Clifton Yard.
As there is no connection from the passenger portion of the Staten Island Railway to the mainline U.S. railroad network or the subway, the only remaining
R44 subway cars on the Staten Island Railway
must be trucked over the
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge ( ) is a suspension bridge connecting the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and t ...
to
Coney Island Yard if they need maintenance that Clifton Yard cannot perform.
Additional storage for revenue trains is located adjacent to the
Tottenville station at the south end of the line, while maintenance of non-revenue trains is performed at a Maintenance of Way shop near the
Tompkinsville station.
References
External links
*nycsubway.orgâ
Subway Yards*
{{National Register of Historic Places in New York
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