9 (New York City Subway service)

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For the former BMT service, see BMT 9.

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

[edit] Dyre Avenue Line

9

DYRE AVE

The 9 designation was originally used for the IRT Dyre Avenue Line until it was converted to through service in 1957, though the equipment on the line did not bear numbers; it may have been used for the Dyre Avenue Shuttle, which ran nights and other times when through service did not run, after 1957. The Dyre Avenue Shuttle still runs during late night hours daily, but now carries the same number as the through service on the line, 5.

[edit] Skip-stop service

The 1/9 skip-stop service was introduced on August 26, 1989 to meet demands for more frequent service. At first, almost every station between 242nd Street–Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and 137th Street–City College in Manhattan was skipped. However, as time passed, many skipped stations became more utilized and were no longer skipped. Popularity and use rose to where the skip-stop service saved little or no time at all. By 1995, 1 trains only skipped three stops while 9 trains only skipped four. In early 2005, it was announced that the skip-stop service would be discontinued, and the 9 train made its final run on May 27.

May 31, 2005 was the first weekday the 9 did not run (the Monday before was Memorial Day)

At the end of the 9, skip-stop service assigned the following stations to the 1 only:

238th Street
215th Street
Dyckman Street
157th Street

and the following stations to the 9 only:

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

[edit] Former service information

Station service legend
	Stops rush hours only
	Station closed
Time period details

	Station	Subway transfers	Connections
The Bronx
	Van Cortlandt Park-242nd Street	1
	231st Street	1
Manhattan
	Marble Hill–225th Street		Metro-North Railroad Hudson Line at Marble Hill
	207th Street
	191st Street	1
	181st Street	1
	168th Street	1 A C
	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 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
	86th Street	1
	79th Street	1
	72nd Street	1 2 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
	66th Street–Lincoln Center	1
	59th Street–Columbus Circle	1 A B C D
	50th Street	1
	Times Square–42nd Street	1 2 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 7 N Q R ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ S W ^(123a) (A C E at 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal)	Port Authority Bus Terminal
	34th Street–Penn Station	1 2 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾	Amtrak, LIRR, and NJ Transit at Pennsylvania Station
	28th Street	1
	23rd Street	1
	18th Street	1
	14th Street	1 2 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ (F V at 14th Street, L at Sixth Avenue)	PATH at 14th Street
	Christopher Street–Sheridan Square	1	PATH at Christopher Street
	Houston Street	1
	Canal Street	1
	Franklin Street	1
	Chambers Street	1 2 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾
	Cortlandt Street	1
	Rector Street	1
	South Ferry	1	Staten Island Ferry at South Ferry

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