Chemistry - 6 (New York City Subway service)

For the former service, see BMT 6.


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The 6 Lexington Avenue Local is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored green, since it uses the Lexington Avenue Line through midtown. Trains of the service run all the time; the usual pattern is local service on the whole route. Some midday and rush hour trips (6 Lexington Avenue Local / Pelham Express) run express in the peak direction in the Bronx, and are designated with a diamond rather than the standard circle. During those times, normal local 6 trains stop short at Parkchester-East 177th Street, and the express trains switch to the local tracks north of there.

The 6 was the train in the 1974 film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, about hijackers holding hostages inside a subway car. The 6 was also the train Jennifer Lopez rode in her early days to school; her 1999 album is called "On the 6 ", a reference to the train.

The following lines are used by the 6:

Line	Tracks	When
Pelham Line (full line)	local (some rush hour trains run express south of Parkchester-East 177th Street in the peak direction)	always
IRT Lexington Avenue Line north of Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall	local	always

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Service history

R12 end rollsign

1967-1979 bullet (in a circle)

Station listing

For a more detailed station listing, see the lines in the table above.

Station	When	Services
The Bronx
Pelham Bay Park	always
Buhre Avenue	always
Middletown Road	always	6 ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Westchester Square-East Tremont Avenue	always	6 ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Zerega Avenue	always	6 ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Castle Hill Avenue	always	6 ⁽³⁴⁵⁾ <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Parkchester-East 177th Street	always
St. Lawrence Avenue	always
Morrison-Sound View Avenues	always	6
Elder Avenue	always	6
Whitlock Avenue	always	6
Hunts Point Avenue	always	6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Longwood Avenue	always	6
East 149th Street	always	6
East 143rd Street-St. Mary's Street	always	6
Cypress Avenue	always	6
Brook Avenue	always	6
Third Avenue-138th Street	always	6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
	always
116th Street	always
110th Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
103rd Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
96th Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
86th Street	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
77th Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
68th Street-Hunter College	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
59th Street	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾ (MetroCard) Roosevelt Island Tramway
51st Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
42nd Street-Grand Central	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾ Metro-North
33rd Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
28th Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
23rd Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
14th Street-Union Square	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Astor Place-Eighth Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Bleecker Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾ (from southbound platform only)
Spring Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Canal Street	always	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾ J M ⁽¹²⁾ Z ^(1a)

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References

Line By Line History

Categories: New York City Subway services