The A train: all 36 stations from Inwood to Far Rockaway

The A is the longest line in the New York subway. It starts at 207th Street-Inwood at the top of Manhattan, runs down the Eighth Avenue Line, crosses Brooklyn on the Fulton Street Line and continues over Jamaica Bay to the Rockaway peninsula, ending at Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue. HelloSubway types the Far Rockaway route, 36 stations.

The stations

In Manhattan the A stops at 207th Street-Inwood, Dyckman Street, 190th Street, 181st Street, 175th Street, 168th Street, 145th Street, 125th Street, 59th Street-Columbus Circle, 42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal, 34th Street-Penn Station, 14th Street, West 4th Street-Washington Square, Canal Street, Chambers Street and Fulton Street. In Brooklyn it calls at High Street, Jay Street-MetroTech, Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets, Nostrand Avenue, Utica Avenue, Broadway Junction, Euclid Avenue, Grant Avenue, 80th Street and 88th Street. In Queens come Rockaway Boulevard, Aqueduct-North Conduit Avenue, Howard Beach-JFK Airport, Broad Channel, Beach 67th Street, Beach 60th Street, Beach 44th Street, Beach 36th Street, Beach 25th Street and Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue.

The branches you don't type

The A has two other ends. One branch leaves at Rockaway Boulevard for Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard, and another leaves Broad Channel for Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street. Our map draws both dotted, and the game types only the Far Rockaway route. Howard Beach-JFK Airport is where you change for the AirTrain to the airport.

How long the A really is

At more than 31 miles from Inwood to Far Rockaway, the A is the longest single line in the New York subway. It runs express in Manhattan and Brooklyn and local in Queens. Trains to Far Rockaway go by way of Howard Beach-JFK Airport at all times, and a handful of rush-hour trips run to and from Beach 116th Street in Rockaway Park. If you are going to the airport, read the destination on the front of the train, because the Lefferts Boulevard trains do not stop at Howard Beach.

Transfers and typing

Eighteen of the 36 stations are shared with other services in the game, most of them with the C, which runs on the same tracks from 168th Street to Euclid Avenue. The whole route takes 619 keystrokes, about 17 per station. 42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal is the longest at 39, then West 4th Street-Washington Square at 33. High Street, 80th Street and 88th Street need eleven. Start the A.