The M train: all 36 stations from Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue

The M starts at Forest Hills-71st Avenue in Queens and runs local along the Queens Boulevard Line, then through the 63rd Street tunnel into Manhattan and down the Sixth Avenue Line local. It crosses to Brooklyn over the Chrystie Street Connection and the Williamsburg Bridge on the Jamaica Line, which it shares with the J, and ends on the elevated Myrtle Avenue Line at Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue, back in Queens.

The route

Starting at Forest Hills-71st Avenue, the M runs through 67th Avenue, 63rd Drive-Rego Park, Woodhaven Boulevard, Grand Avenue-Newtown, Elmhurst Avenue, Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue, 65th Street, Northern Boulevard, 46th Street, Steinway Street, 36th Street, 21st Street-Queensbridge, Roosevelt Island, Lexington Avenue-63rd Street, 57th Street, 47th-50th Streets-Rockefeller Center and 42nd Street-Bryant Park.

The rest of the route is 34th Street-Herald Square, 23rd Street, 14th Street, West 4th Street-Washington Square, Broadway-Lafayette Street, Delancey Street-Essex Street, Marcy Avenue, Hewes Street, Lorimer Street, Flushing Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, Central Avenue, Knickerbocker Avenue, Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues, Seneca Avenue, Forest Avenue, Fresh Pond Road and Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue.

Changing trains, and typing it

Of the 36 stations, 27 are shared with other lines in the game. The biggest are 34th Street-Herald Square (B, D, F, N, Q, R, W), West 4th Street-Washington Square (A, B, D, E, F, C), Forest Hills-71st Avenue (E, F, R), Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue (E, F, R), 47th-50th Streets-Rockefeller Center (B, D, F) and 42nd Street-Bryant Park (B, D, F). The whole line takes 675 keystrokes, about 18.8 per station. 47th-50th Streets-Rockefeller Center is the longest at 36, then Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue at 34, and 67th Avenue, 65th Street and 46th Street are the shortest at 11. Ride the M.