A (New York City Subway service)

Eighth Avenue Express
An R46 train on the A approaching Beach 60th Street
Note: The dashed line shows rush-hour-only service.
Northern end	Inwood–207th Street
Southern end	Lefferts Boulevard, Far Rockaway, or Rockaway Park (limited rush-hour service)
Stations	40 44 (rush hour services) 62 (late-night services)
Rolling stock	R46 R179 R211A 8 R68As (1 train, p.m. only-used on the B for a.m. service)[1][2] (Rolling stock assignments subject to change)
Depot	Pitkin Yard
Started service	September 10, 1932; 91 years ago (1932-09-10)
Route map Legend  A  Inwood–207th Street Dyckman Street 190th Street 181st Street 175th Street switches to local tracks during late nights  C  168th Street 163rd Street–Amsterdam Avenue 155th Street ​ Uptown & the Bronx via Concourse Line 145th Street 135th Street 125th Street 116th Street Cathedral Parkway–110th Street 103rd Street 96th Street 86th Street 81st Street–Museum of Natural History 72nd Street 59th Street–Columbus Circle ​ Downtown & Brooklyn via 53rd Street East Side & Queens via 53rd Street 50th Street ( southbound) 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal 34th Street–Penn Station 23rd Street 14th Street West Fourth Street–Washington Square Spring Street Canal Street switches to local tracks during late nights World Trade Center | Chambers Street  E  Fulton Street Manhattan Brooklyn High Street ​ Manhattan & Queens via 6th Avenue Jay Street–MetroTech ​ Church Avenue & Coney Island via Culver New York Transit Museum (formerly Court Street) Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets Queens via Crosstown switches to local tracks during late nights Lafayette Avenue Clinton–Washington Avenues Franklin Avenue Nostrand Avenue Kingston–Throop Avenues Utica Avenue Ralph Avenue Rockaway Avenue Broadway Junction Liberty Avenue Van Siclen Avenue Shepherd Avenue Euclid Avenue  C  switches to local tracks during late nights Grant Avenue Brooklyn Queens 80th Street 88th Street Rockaway Boulevard 104th Street 111th Street Ozone Park–Lefferts Boulevard  A  Aqueduct Racetrack (northbound only) Aqueduct–North Conduit Avenue Howard Beach–JFK Airport  S  Broad Channel Beach 67th Street Beach 60th Street Beach 44th Street Beach 36th Street Beach 25th Street Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue  A  Beach 90th Street Beach 98th Street Beach 105th Street Rockaway Park–Beach 116th Street  S  ( A  rush hours) Legend Lines used by the and Other services sharing tracks with the and Unused lines, connections, or service patterns  A  Termini of services Cross-platform interchange Platforms on different levels This diagram: view talk edit

The A Eighth Avenue Express^[3] is a rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored blue since it is a part of the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan.^[4]

The A operates at all times. Daytime service operates between 207th Street in Inwood, Manhattan and Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway, Queens or Lefferts Boulevard in Richmond Hill, Queens, typically alternating between the latter two terminals, while making express stops in both Manhattan and Brooklyn. During rush hours, five scheduled trips in the peak direction operates from Beach 116th Street in Rockaway Park, Queens to Manhattan in the morning and back from Manhattan in the afternoon. Late night service operates only between 207th Street and Far Rockaway, making all stops along its entire route; during this time, a shuttle train (the Lefferts Boulevard Shuttle) operates between Euclid Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard.^[a][5]

The A provides the longest one-seat ride in the system—at 32.39 miles (52.13 km), between Inwood and Far Rockaway—and a 2015 study indicated that it had a weekday ridership of 600,000.^[6]

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