S (NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY SERVICE)

R1 end rollsign for IND specials

R12 end rollsigns for the IRT

R27 end rollsign for BMT shuttles	1968-1979 bullet for all shuttles (in a circle)

Three services in the New York Subway are designated as 'S' (shuttle). These are short services that serve mainly to connect passengers to longer services.

★ 42nd Street Shuttle (also called Grand Central/Times Square Shuttle)

★ Rockaway Park Shuttle (also called Rockaway Shuttle)

★ Franklin Avenue Shuttle
The following services run as shuttles during off hours, but are not designated 'S':

★ early Sunday morning (Lenox Shuttle), originally 'SS'

★ late nights (Dyre Avenue Shuttle), originally 'SS'

★ late nights (Lefferts Boulevard Shuttle), sometimes uses a yellow 'S'[1]

★ evenings, weekends and late nights (Myrtle Avenue Shuttle), originally 'SS'

★ late nights (Bay Ridge Shuttle)

Contents

Former uses

Lenox Terminal Shuttle (1905?-ca. 1970)

Myrtle Avenue Shuttle (1969-ca. 1972)

Nassau Street Shuttle (1999)

References

Former uses

Other lines have in the past been designated 'S'; the label has also been used for temporary shuttles due to construction. Before 1986, all shuttles had the label 'SS', and 'S' was reserved for 'special' services, including IND trains to Aqueduct Racetrack. The 'SS' label was first applied in 1967, when all services were labeled due to the completion of the Chrystie Street Connection.
See the articles about the old Court Street Shuttle and the later Rockaway Shuttle. See for the old Third Avenue Shuttle in the Bronx (shown as SHUTTLE on rollsigns).[2]
Former uses of the 'S' or 'SS' designation are as follows:

★ Bowling Green-South Ferry Shuttle (1909-1977)

★ Culver Shuttle (1954-1975)

★ 63rd Street Shuttle (1997-2001)

★ Grand Street Shuttle (?-2001)

Lenox Terminal Shuttle (1905?-ca. 1970)

Bowling Green Shuttle	Lenox Shuttle
1967-1968 bullets (in a circle)

The 'Lenox Terminal Shuttle' (also 'Lenox Shuttle' and 'Lenox Avenue Shuttle') ran between 148th Street and 135th Street when the didn't run. Prior to May 13, 1968 it was the '145th Street Shuttle', running only to 145th Street, and only from 21:00 to 01:00. It was in place by 1918, and may have been started in 1905, when the IRT White Plains Road Line opened to the IRT Lenox Avenue Line.
When the extension to 148th Street opened, the hours were extended to run all the time that the '3' didn't run (late evenings and late nights). Then between 1969 and 1972 it was folded into the '3', but continued to run as simply a shuttle at those times. Late night service last ran on the morning of September 10, 1995.
The '3' now runs at all times but late nights, but the shuttle survives Sunday mornings from 06:00 to 08:30, when the only runs north of 135th Street.

Myrtle Avenue Shuttle (1969-ca. 1972)

This was only around for a few years from 1969, picking up the slack from , before it was merged into the .

Nassau Street Shuttle (1999)

This ran only in 1999 during Williamsburg Bridge rehabilitation, providing Manhattan service for the , and . The shuttle ran from 06:00 to 22:00 daily from Essex Street to Broad Street (Chambers Street on weekends).

References

★ nycsubway.org

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★ New York City Subway Historical Maps

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★ FAQ: The Letter, Number and Color Codes of the New York Subways

★ Line By Line History

★ Subway Bullets

★ "One Dies in Wreck of Subway Train," ''The New York Times'', December 9, 1918, p. 13

★ "Coming Transit Reductions: What They Mean for You," ''The New York Times'', August 20, 1995, p. CY10

★ "A Subway Station is Shuttered, the First in 33 Years," ''The New York Times'', September 11, 1995 (the article is about Dean Street on the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, and the headline refers to the 1962 closing of Worth Street; several old-style elevated railways were closed since then, as well as the Culver Shuttle which hosted both elevated and subway service at one time)