The L train: all 24 stations from 8th Avenue to Canarsie

The L is the grey line on the New York subway map. It runs from 8th Avenue in Manhattan along the 14th Street (Canarsie) Line, under the East River into Williamsburg and Bushwick, and through East New York to Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway. It has no fork: one route, 24 stations, all day and night.

A short history

The Brooklyn end is the oldest part. Trains began running there in 1906, between Canarsie and Williamsburg. The subway under 14th Street opened in 1924 and ran under the river to Montrose and Bushwick Avenues, and four years later the line reached Broadway Junction. On February 24, 2009 the L became the first New York subway service run by communications-based train control. The Canarsie Tunnel under the East River was repaired between April 2019 and April 27, 2020, on nights and weekends instead of the full shutdown first planned.

The stations

In Manhattan the L stops at 8th Avenue, 6th Avenue, 14th Street-Union Square, 3rd Avenue and 1st Avenue. In Brooklyn it calls at Bedford Avenue, Lorimer Street-Metropolitan Avenue, Graham Avenue, Grand Street, Montrose Avenue, Morgan Avenue, Jefferson Street, DeKalb Avenue, Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues, Halsey Street, Wilson Avenue, Bushwick Avenue-Aberdeen Street, Broadway Junction, Atlantic Avenue, Sutter Avenue, Livonia Avenue, New Lots Avenue, East 105th Street and Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway.

Transfers and typing

Four L stations connect to other services in the game: 14th Street-Union Square (4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, W), Lorimer Street-Metropolitan Avenue (G), Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues (M) and Broadway Junction (A, C, J, Z). Typing every stop once takes 389 keystrokes, about 16 per station. Lorimer Street-Metropolitan Avenue is the longest at 34 and Bushwick Avenue-Aberdeen Street follows at 31, while 6th Avenue, 3rd Avenue and 1st Avenue take ten each. For the neighbourhoods along the way, see the L train in photos, or start the L.