The 5 train: all 36 stations from Flatbush Avenue-Brooklyn College to Eastchester-Dyre Avenue

The 5 is an express service that starts at Flatbush Avenue-Brooklyn College. It runs up the Lexington Avenue Line through Manhattan and then out along the IRT Dyre Avenue Line in the Bronx to Eastchester-Dyre Avenue. During rush hours some trips run on the White Plains Road Line toward Nereid Avenue instead.

The stations

Starting at Flatbush Avenue-Brooklyn College, the 5 runs through Newkirk Avenue, Beverly Road, Church Avenue, Winthrop Street, Sterling Street, President Street-Medgar Evers College, Franklin Avenue, Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center, Nevins Street, Borough Hall, Bowling Green, Wall Street, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, 14th Street-Union Square, Grand Central-42nd Street and 59th Street.

The rest of the route is 86th Street, 125th Street, 138th Street-Grand Concourse, 149th Street-Grand Concourse, 3rd Avenue-149th Street, Jackson Avenue, Prospect Avenue, Intervale Avenue, Simpson Street, Freeman Street, 174th Street, West Farms Square-East Tremont Avenue, East 180th Street, Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Gun Hill Road, Baychester Avenue and Eastchester-Dyre Avenue.

The branch you don't type

The rush-hour trips toward Nereid Avenue, which leave the Dyre Avenue route at East 180th Street, are drawn as a dotted branch on our map. The game types the everyday route to Eastchester-Dyre Avenue.

Changing trains, and typing it

Of the 36 stations, 31 are shared with other lines in the game. The biggest are Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center (2, 3, 4, B, D, N, Q, R), Fulton Street (2, 3, 4, A, J, C, Z), 14th Street-Union Square (4, 6, N, Q, R, L, W), 59th Street (4, 6, N, R, W), Franklin Avenue (2, 3, 4) and Nevins Street (2, 3, 4). The whole line takes 650 keystrokes, about 18.1 per station. President Street-Medgar Evers College is the longest at 37, tied with West Farms Square-East Tremont Avenue, and Wall Street, 59th Street and 86th Street are the shortest at 11. Ride the 5.