The Ultimate 4 (New York City Subway service) - American History Information Guide and Reference

For the former service, see BMT 4.

The 4 Lexington Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored green, since it uses the Lexington Avenue Line through midtown. Trains of the service run all the time. The usual pattern is express through Manhattan and Brooklyn and local elsewhere; at late nights it is local everywhere. Some rush hour trips in the peak direction run to New Lots Avenue; it also extends there late nights, when the doesn't run.

The 4 is the official train of the New York Yankees, having a stop at Yankee Stadium, located at in the Bronx. Several R62 and R142 cars running on this line are decorated with Yankee logos and colors.

The following lines are used by the 4:

Line	Tracks	When
Jerome Avenue Line (full line)	local (skips 138th Street-Grand Concourse rush hours in peak direction)	always
IRT Lexington Avenue Line (full line)	express (local late nights)	always
IRT Joralemon Street Tunnel	N/A	always
IRT Eastern Parkway Line north of Utica Avenue	express (local late nights)	always
IRT Eastern Parkway Line south of Utica Avenue	N/A	late night and some rush-hour trips in peak direction

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R12 end rollsign

1967-1979 bullet
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Station listing

For a more detailed station listing, see the lines in the table above.

Station	When	Services
The Bronx
Woodlawn	always
Mosholu Parkway	always	4
Bedford Park Boulevard-Lehman College	always	4
Kingsbridge Road	always	4
Fordham Road	always	4
183rd Street	always	4
Burnside Avenue	always	4
176th Street	always	4
Mt. Eden Avenue	always	4
170th Street	always	4
167th Street	always	4
161st Street-Yankee Stadium	always	4
149th Street-Grand Concourse	always	4
138th Street-Grand Concourse	all but rush hours in peak direction
125th Street	always
116th Street	late nights only
110th Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
103rd Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
96th Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
86th Street	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
77th Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
68th Street-Hunter College	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
59th Street	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾ (MetroCard) Roosevelt Island Tramway
51st Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
42nd Street-Grand Central	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾ Metro-North
33rd Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
28th Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
23rd Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
14th Street-Union Square	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Astor Place-Eighth Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Bleecker Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾ (from southbound platform only)
Spring Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Canal Street	late nights only	4 ⁽⁵⁾ 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a) 6 <6> ⁽¹²⁾ J M ⁽¹²⁾ Z ^(1a)
Fulton Street	always
Wall Street	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a)
Bowling Green	always	4 5 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ <5> ^(1a)
Brooklyn
Borough Hall	always
Nevins Street	always
Atlantic Avenue	always	2 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 5 ⁽¹⁾ <5> ^(1a)
Bergen Street	late nights only
Grand Army Plaza	late nights only	2 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 ⁽⁵⁾
Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum	late nights only	2 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 ⁽⁵⁾
Franklin Avenue	always	2 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 5 ⁽¹⁾ <5> ^(1a)
Nostrand Avenue	late nights only
Kingston Avenue	late nights only	2 ⁽¹⁾ 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 ⁽⁵⁾
Utica Avenue	always
Sutter Avenue-Rutland Road	rush hours in peak direction and late nights only
Saratoga Avenue	rush hours in peak direction and late nights only	2 ⁽¹⁾ 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 ^(1a5) 5 ⁽¹⁾ <5> ^(1a)
Rockaway Avenue	rush hours in peak direction and late nights only	2 ⁽¹⁾ 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 ^(1a5) 5 ⁽¹⁾ <5> ^(1a)
Junius Street	rush hours in peak direction and late nights only	2 ⁽¹⁾ 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 ^(1a5) 5 ⁽¹⁾ <5> ^(1a)
Pennsylvania Avenue	rush hours in peak direction and late nights only	2 ⁽¹⁾ 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 ^(1a5) 5 ⁽¹⁾ <5> ^(1a)
Van Siclen Avenue	rush hours in peak direction and late nights only	2 ⁽¹⁾ 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 ^(1a5) 5 ⁽¹⁾ <5> ^(1a)
New Lots Avenue	rush hours in peak direction and late nights only	2 ⁽¹⁾ 3 ⁽¹²³⁴⁾ 4 ^(1a5) 5 ⁽¹⁾ <5> ^(1a)

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