New York City Subway stations in Manhattan

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 78. Chapters: List of New York City Subway stations in Manhattan, Times Square - 42nd Street, Grand Central - 42nd Street, Canal Street, Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall / Chambers Street, Chambers Street - World Trade Center / Park Place, 14th Street - Union Square, Fulton Street, 59th Street - Columbus Circle, 34th Street - Herald Square, Lexington Avenue / 59th Street, 96th Street, Lexington Avenue / 51st - 53rd Streets, South Ferry - Whitehall Street, 42nd Street - Port Authority Bus Terminal, 14th Street - Eighth Avenue, Delancey Street - Essex Street, 168th Street, Bowling Green, West Fourth Street - Washington Square, 34th Street - Penn Station, 57th Street - Seventh Avenue, Broadway - Lafayette Street, Astor Place, 42nd Street / Fifth Avenue - Bryant Park, Cortlandt Street, Lexington Avenue - 63rd Street, 50th Street, 125th Street, Spring Street, 72nd Street, Second Avenue, 81st Street - Museum of Natural History, 145th Street, 137th Street - City College, 23rd Street, 47th-50th Streets - Rockefeller Center, Broad Street, 181st Street, Cathedral Parkway - 110th Street, Wall Street, Bleecker Street, 49th Street, 86th Street, 190th Street, 66th Street - Lincoln Center, Christopher Street - Sheridan Square, 116th Street - Columbia University, 135th Street, Bowery, Dyckman Street, Fifth Avenue / 53rd Street, Inwood - 207th Street, Grand Street, Fifth Avenue / 59th Street, Sixth Avenue, 155th Street, 191st Street, 33rd Street, Marble Hill - 225th Street, 28th Street, Eighth Street - New York University, Roosevelt Island, Franklin Street, 215th Street, 103rd Street, Prince Street, East Broadway, Harlem - 148th Street, 175th Street, Rector Street, 163rd Street - Amsterdam Avenue, 157th Street, 18th Street, 77th Street, 79th Street, Central Park North - 110th Street, First Avenue, Houston Street, Third Avenue, 68th Street - Hunter College. Excerpt: The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Operated by the New York City Transit Authority under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in the United States and the fourth busiest in the world, with 5.225 million daily riders. The system's 468 stations qualifies it to have the largest number of rapid transit stations in the world. Three rapid transit companies merged in 1940 to create the present New York City Subway system: the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND). All three former systems are present in Manhattan. Although many east-west numbered streets in Manhattan, as well as Houston Street, are prefixed with either "East" or "West, " most subway stations are named without the prefix, i.e. 33rd Street instead of East 33rd Street. The exception is West Fourth Street - Washington Square. The IND had proposed an extension of the Sixth Avenue Line from Second Avenue into Brooklyn. This line would have had a station stop at South Fourth Street in Brooklyn, the station shell was built at the Broadway IND Crosstown Line station and is now sealed up. Thus, West Fourth Street was named to eliminate this confusion should it arose. There are 147 New York City Subway stations in Manhattan, per the official count of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, of these, 32 are e...