The Q train: all 29 stations from 96th Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue

The Q starts at 96th Street on the Second Avenue Subway, which opened on the Upper East Side in 2017. It runs through the 63rd Street tunnel, express along the BMT Broadway Line through Midtown, across the Manhattan Bridge and down Brooklyn's Brighton Line to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue. On the Brighton Line it is the local, stopping at every station that the B runs past.

The stations in order

From 96th Street, the Q calls at 86th Street, 72nd Street, Lexington Avenue-63rd Street, 57th Street-7th Avenue, Times Square-42nd Street, 34th Street-Herald Square, 14th Street-Union Square, Canal Street, DeKalb Avenue, Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center, 7th Avenue, Prospect Park, Parkside Avenue and Church Avenue.

After that come Beverley Road, Cortelyou Road, Newkirk Plaza, Avenue H, Avenue J, Avenue M, Kings Highway, Avenue U, Neck Road, Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, Ocean Parkway, West 8th Street-New York Aquarium and Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue.

Transfers and typing

Of the 29 stations, 17 are shared with other lines in the game. The biggest are Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center (2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, R), Times Square-42nd Street (1, 2, 3, 7, N, R, W), 34th Street-Herald Square (B, D, F, M, N, R, W), 14th Street-Union Square (4, 5, 6, N, R, L, W), 57th Street-7th Avenue (N, R, W) and Canal Street (N, R, W). Typing every station once takes 460 keystrokes, about 15.9 per station. West 8th Street-New York Aquarium is the longest at 33, then Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center at 31, and Avenue H, Avenue J and Avenue M are the shortest at 8. Start the Q.