The Explorer
Everything he knows
26 train lines and 445 stations across all 5 boroughs — every subway line, the whole Staten Island Railway, and the bus he knows cold. Pick a line to go through it.
Broadway Local
96 St ↔ Bay Ridge-95 St
- Stops
- 52
- Antoine’s notes
- 0
- Accessible
- 22 of 52
- Boroughs
- Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn
Every stop, in order
96 St
ManhattanStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
86 St
ManhattanStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
72 St
ManhattanStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
Lexington Av/63 St
ManhattanStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
Forest Hills-71 Av
QueensStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
67 Av
Queens◷ Not every R stops here
63 Dr-Rego Park
Queens◷ Not every R stops here
Woodhaven Blvd
Queens◷ Not every R stops here
Grand Av-Newtown
Queens◷ Not every R stops here
Elmhurst Av
Queens◷ Not every R stops here
Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av
QueensStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
Jackson Heights — Among the most linguistically diverse neighborhoods on earth — more than 160 languages are spoken in this part of Queens. Little India runs along 74th Street.
65 St
Queens◷ Not every R stops here
Northern Blvd
QueensStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
46 St
Queens◷ Not every R stops here
Steinway St
Queens◷ Not every R stops here
Museum of the Moving Image — Attached to Kaufman Astoria Studios, where films have been made since 1920 and Sesame Street is still shot. Steinway Street north of here is the heart of Little Egypt.
36 St
Queens◷ Not every R stops here
Queens Plaza
QueensStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
Lexington Av/59 St
Manhattan◷ Not every R stops here
5 Av/59 St
Manhattan◷ Not every R stops here
57 St-7 Av
ManhattanStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
49 St
ManhattanStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
Times Sq-42 St
ManhattanStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
Times Square — The Theater District, and the busiest station in the system by a distance. The ball has dropped here on New Year's Eve since 1907.
34 St-Herald Sq
ManhattanStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
Herald Square — Macy's flagship store has stood on Herald Square since 1902 and still ends the Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Empire State Building is two blocks east on 34th.
28 St
Manhattan◷ Not every R stops here
23 St
Manhattan◷ Not every R stops here
The Flatiron Building — Finished in 1902 on the wedge where Broadway crosses Fifth. Madison Square Park is across the street, and the original Shake Shack is in it.
14 St-Union Sq
ManhattanStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
8 St-NYU
Manhattan◷ Not every R stops here
Prince St
Manhattan◷ Not every R stops here
Canal St
Manhattan◷ Not every R stops here
Chinatown and Little Italy — Canal Street is the seam between them, and one of the great street markets of the city.
City Hall
Manhattan◷ Not every R stops here
Cortlandt St
ManhattanStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
Rector St
Manhattan◷ Not every R stops here
Whitehall St-South Ferry
Manhattan
Court St
Brooklyn
Jay St-MetroTech
BrooklynStep-free station
Downtown Brooklyn — Borough Hall, the courts, and Junior's on Flatbush — making the cheesecake since 1950.
DeKalb Av
BrooklynStep-free station
Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
BrooklynStep-free station
Barclays Center — Home of the Brooklyn Nets, and the busiest interchange in Brooklyn — eleven subway lines and the Long Island Rail Road meet under it.
Union St
Brooklyn
4 Av-9 St
Brooklyn
Prospect Av
Brooklyn
25 St
Brooklyn
36 St
Brooklyn
9 Av
Brooklyn◷ Not every R stops here
62 St
BrooklynStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
Bay Pkwy
BrooklynStep-free station◷ Not every R stops here
45 St
Brooklyn
53 St
Brooklyn
59 St
BrooklynStep-free station
Bay Ridge Av
Brooklyn
77 St
Brooklyn
86 St
BrooklynStep-free station
Bay Ridge-95 St
BrooklynStep-free station
The Rsplits into branches, so it doesn’t really run as one straight line. Every station it serves is listed here in order along the trunk, with the branches shown one after the other — a real trip takes one branch or the other, not both.
Lines and stations come from the MTA’s official GTFS feed and subway stations dataset, current through 09/07/2026. Rush-hour express variants (6X, 7X, FX) are folded into the local line they share, which already stops at every station on that trunk.