MTA releases first-ever Late Night Map

Although the map won't be accessible to everyone--the MTA is releasing it first in a collectible series--here is a Late Night Map, perfect for when you have to find your way back to the Bronx from Brooklyn.

You can download a PDF of the map at the MTA website.

The map shows the scheduled overnight service of the subway system, when three subway lines don’t run, three lines become shuttle trains, six express trains run as locals, and a night-only shuttle appears. The map has a gray background color to prevent confusion with the normal subway map.

The New York City Subway is the only large subway or metro system in the world to maintain service to all its stations around the clock. The overnight service shown in the night map runs generally from midnight to 6 a.m., although certain lines’ overnight service patterns depicted in the map may begin or end slightly earlier or later than these times.

The MTA has printed 25,000 copies of the map in tandem with its normal press run of a million copies of the standard subway and railroad map. The night map is available free of charge while supplies last at the New York Transit Museum, at Boerum Place & Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn, and at the Transit Museum Annex in Grand Central Terminal.

The night map, developed in-house by the MTA, is the same size as the standard map and similarly folds into a handy pocket-sized document. In addition to the folded version, 300 pristine, unfolded press sheets of the night map are available for purchase at the Transit Museum Annex for $20 each.

“The standard subway map depicts morning to evening weekday service,” said MTA Chairman Joseph J. Lhota. “This companion night map will, for the first time, depict service for a particular portion of the day. This is the latest effort we’ve taken to improve the availability of information and detail we provide to our customers.”

The following details the major differences in service shown on the night map, as compared with the standard subway map:

·         Three subway lines (the B, C and Z) and the 42^nd Street Shuttle do not operate overnight and are not shown on the map.

·         Five subway lines offer shorter service than usual:

o   The 3 terminates at Times Square.

o   The 5 runs as a shuttle in the Bronx between E. 180 St and Dyre Av

o   The M runs as a shuttle between Myrtle Av, Brooklyn, and Metropolitan Av, Queens.

o   The Q terminates at 57 St/7 Av in Midtown Manhattan.

o   The R runs as a shuttle in Brooklyn between 36 St and 95 St.

·         Six lines make additional stops they don’t make during the daytime.

o   The 2 makes all local stops in Manhattan.

o   The 4 makes all local stops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and is extended to New Lots Av, Brooklyn.

o   The A makes all local stops in Manhattan and Brooklyn; it runs to Far Rockaway but not Lefferts Blvd or Rockaway Park, which are served by shuttle trains.

o   The D runs local via Fourth Av in Brooklyn.

o   The E runs local via Queens Blvd.

o   The N runs local via the Financial District.

·         There is no skip/stop service on the J, which terminates at Chambers St on weekend overnight periods

·         Six subway lines (the 1, 6, 7, F, G, and L) and Franklin Avenue Shuttle run their normal routes as local trains. (There is no 6 or 7 express service.)