C Train · New York

The all-stops local on the Eighth Avenue Line, running from 168th Street in Washington Heights down Eighth Avenue and Central Park West, then along Fulton Street in Brooklyn to Euclid Avenue in East New York. It stops at the stations that the A train, which shares its tracks, runs past.

At a glance

Stations: 40
From: 168th Street
To: Euclid Avenue
Interchanges: 29
Difficulty: Lv 6 of 7
Keystrokes: ~688

C Train runs from 168th Street to Euclid Avenue, 40 stops in the order you type them. Measured in straight lines between the station coordinates, the run is about 29.2 km, an average of 750 m between stops. The longest gap is Fulton Street to High Street, about 1.8 km, and the shortest is Jay Street-MetroTech to Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets, about 480 m. The real track is a little longer than these straight lines.

Typing every station name once takes about 688 keystrokes, which is difficulty level 6 of 7 among New York's lines. The level only compares lines within one city, so use the keystroke count to compare across cities. At the 168th Street end the game shows Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and at the Euclid Avenue end, Blessed Sacrament Church.

You can change to 15 other lines: 1 Train, A Train, B Train, D Train, E Train, F Train, M Train, 2 Train, 3 Train, 4 Train, 5 Train, J Train, R Train, G Train, L Train. The busiest interchange is West 4th Street-Washington Square, where 6 other lines meet this one. The interchange stations are 168th Street, 145th Street, 135th Street, 125th Street, 116th Street, Cathedral Parkway-110th Street, 103rd Street, 96th Street, and 21 more.

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Along the way

The game shows a nearby place at each station. Some of the ones on C Train:

Columbia University Irving Medical Center at 168th Street. Columbia University Irving Medical Center, anchored in Washington Heights since 1928, is one of the nation's foremost academic medical centers. The campus is home to the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and a vast array of cutting-edge research institutes.Photo: Mightychip26 (original); cropped by Beyond My Ken · Public domain
Hamilton Heights Historic District at 145th Street. This National Register district of rowhouses and apartment buildings, roughly bounded by St. Nicholas and Amsterdam Avenues between West 140th and West 145th Streets, sits right above the subway station. Developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a fashionable uptown suburb, it takes its name from Alexander Hamilton's nearby country estate.Photo: Americasroof · CC BY 3.0
115th Street Library at 116th Street. Officially the Harry Belafonte 115th Street Branch of the New York Public Library, this three-story Neo-Italian Renaissance building faced in rusticated gray limestone was designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1908 as one of the city's original Carnegie-funded branches. It remains an active neighborhood library a short walk from the station, renamed in 2022 to honor the Harlem-raised singer and activist.Photo: Epicgenius · CC BY-SA 4.0
The El Dorado at 86th Street. Rising in twin Art Deco towers at 300 Central Park West between 90th and 91st Streets, the El Dorado was built from 1929 to 1931 to designs by Margon & Holder with consulting architect Emery Roth. Its angular bronze entrance archways and sculpted tower finials make it one of the most recognizable silhouettes on the Central Park skyline, a short distance from the 86th Street station.Photo: Hu Totya · CC BY 3.0
Columbus Circle at 59th Street-Columbus Circle. Columbus Circle, at the southwest corner of Central Park, is a major Manhattan landmark anchored by a 70-foot granite column topped with a statue of Christopher Columbus. The circular plaza is surrounded by the Time Warner Center, the Museum of Arts and Design, and Central Park's southern entrance, making it one of Midtown's most iconic public spaces.Photo: TarHeel4793 · CC BY-SA 4.0
New Yorker Hotel at 34th Street-Penn Station. Rising above Eighth Avenue with its giant illuminated rooftop sign, the New Yorker opened in 1930 as one of Manhattan's largest Art Deco hotels. Nikola Tesla spent his final decade living quietly in a suite here, and the building once housed its own private power plant to run independently of the city grid. After decades of decline and a stint as a Unification Church dormitory, it reopened as a hotel and remains a Midtown landmark visible for blocks around Penn Station.Photo: Bramstercate · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spring Street Park at Spring Street. Once called SoHo Square, this triangular plaza took shape when Sixth Avenue was cut through the neighborhood in the 19th century, leaving an awkward leftover parcel of land. A bronze statue of General José Artigas, a national hero of Uruguay and a gift from the Uruguayan people, has stood here since 1997. A renovation completed in 2018 added new seating, custom lighting, and dozens of trees to the plaza.Photo: Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0
St. Paul's Chapel at Fulton Street. Completed in 1766, St. Paul's Chapel is the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan and a rare surviving example of colonial Georgian architecture. George Washington worshipped here on his inauguration day in 1789, and more than two centuries later the chapel served as a round-the-clock refuge for recovery workers after the September 11 attacks, escaping the disaster without even a broken window.Photo: PortableNYCTours · CC BY-SA 4.0
St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral at Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets. This cathedral serves as the seat of the primate of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. Originally established in Lower Manhattan, the congregation relocated to this Boerum Hill building, a short walk from Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets station.Photo: Jim.henderson · CC0
Alhambra Apartments at Nostrand Avenue. Architect Montrose Morris designed this 1890 apartment house as one of the first buildings in the country built specifically to offer large, comfortable apartments to affluent tenants rather than the wealthy-only townhouses of the era. Its six corner towers, arcaded loggias, and terracotta ornament made it a Bedford-Stuyvesant landmark long before the neighborhood carried that name, and it was designated a New York City landmark in 1986.Photo: Jim.henderson · CC0
Hunterfly Road Houses at Ralph Avenue. A few small wooden houses from Weeksville, one of the free Black communities of nineteenth-century Brooklyn. The surviving houses sit on their own lots, set well back from the surrounding streets.Photo: Anonitect · Public domain
Schwartz Community Center and Maxwell High School at Liberty Avenue. The Schwartz Community Center, a former courthouse, and William H. Maxwell High School, facing each other at Pennsylvania Avenue and Liberty Avenue in East New York.Photo: Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0