IND Crosstown Line

IND Crosstown Line
Services that use the IND Crosstown Line in Brooklyn and Queens have been colored lime green since 1979. The original IND lettering system provided for G on the line.
Overview
Type	Rapid transit
System	New York City Subway
Termini	Court Square Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets
Stations	13
Daily ridership	149,043
Operation
Opened	1933–1937
Owner	City of New York
Operator(s)	New York City Transit Authority
Character	Underground
Technical
Number of tracks	2-4
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification	Direct Current traction

The IND Crosstown Line or Brooklyn–Queens Crosstown Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States. It provides crosstown service between western Brooklyn and northwestern Queens and is the only major line that does not carry trains to/from Manhattan.

The bullets of the services that use the Crosstown Line are colored lime green.

The only service to use the Crosstown Line is the G. No revenue service runs over the line north of Court Square.

The north end of the Crosstown Line is a flying junction with the IND Queens Boulevard Line and 60th Street Tunnel Connection just south of Queens Plaza. The line then travels south as a two-track line, except for a center relay track south of Court Square. At the turn from Marcy Avenue to Lafayette Avenue, two center tracks appear, merging into one after crossovers to the main tracks. These tracks were to be used for a split to another line in a 1931 expansion plan. This center track continues through Bedford–Nostrand Avenues and then ends with crossovers to the main tracks, but space remains in the center through Classon Avenue for the third track.

At Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets, the Crosstown Line passes through the middle of the four-track IND Fulton Street Line. Cross-platform interchange is available between the lines, but no track connections exist. After Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets, the line turns south and ends as a merge into the local tracks of the IND Culver Line, just south of the split of that line into local and express tracks.