D (New York City Subway service)

Sixth Avenue Express
Coney Island-bound D train of R68s leaves 18th Avenue.
Northern end	Norwood–205th Street
Southern end	Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue
Stations	36 30 (rush hour service) 41 (late night service)
Rolling stock	R68[1][2] (Rolling stock assignments subject to change)
Depot	Concourse Yard
Started service	December 15, 1940; 83 years ago (1940-12-15)
Route map Legend  D  Norwood–205th Street  B  (rush hours) Bedford Park Boulevard switches to express tracks during rush peak Kingsbridge Road Fordham Road 182nd–183rd Streets Tremont Avenue 174th–175th Streets 170th Street 167th Street 161st Street–Yankee Stadium The Bronx Manhattan 155th Street ​ 168th Street or Inwood–207th Street via 8th Avenue  B  (weekdays) 145th Street switches to express tracks during rush peak bypassed local section 135th Street 125th Street bypassed local section 116th Street Cathedral Parkway–110th Street 103rd Street 96th Street 86th Street 81st Street–Museum of Natural History 72nd Street 59th Street–Columbus Circle ​​ Downtown & Brooklyn via 8th Avenue Seventh Avenue ​ East Side & Queens via 53rd Street Uptown & Queens via 63rd Street 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center 42nd Street–Bryant Park 34th Street–Herald Square bypassed local section 23rd Street 14th Street West Fourth Street–Washington Square Broadway–Lafayette Street ​ Downtown & Brooklyn via 6th Avenue Grand Street ​ Uptown & Queens via Broadway Manhattan Brooklyn Manhattan & Queens via Broadway switches to local tracks during late nights Myrtle Avenue DeKalb Avenue ​ Brighton Beach & Coney Island via Brighton Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center Union Street Ninth Street Prospect Avenue 25th Street 36th Street switches to local tracks during late nights ​​ Bay Ridge & Coney Island via 4th Avenue Ninth Avenue Fort Hamilton Parkway 50th Street 55th Street 62nd Street 71st Street 79th Street 18th Avenue 20th Avenue Bay Parkway 25th Avenue Bay 50th Street Manhattan & Queens via Sea Beach ​​ Manhattan & Queens via Culver & Brighton Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue  D   F   <F>   N   Q  Legend Lines used by the Other services sharing tracks with the Unused lines, connections, or service patterns  D  Termini of services Cross-platform interchange Platforms on different levels This diagram: view talk edit

The D Sixth Avenue Express^[3] is a rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored orange, since it uses the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan.^[4]

The D operates at all times between 205th Street in Norwood, Bronx, and Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn via Grand Concourse in the Bronx, Central Park West and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, the north side of the Manhattan Bridge, and Fourth Avenue and West End in Brooklyn.

During daytime hours, the D runs express between 145th Street in Manhattan and 36th Street–Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn and local elsewhere. During rush hours in the peak direction, the D also runs express between Fordham Road in the Bronx and 145th Street in Manhattan. Overnight D service is only express in Manhattan and local elsewhere.

In its early years, the D ran to Chambers Street/Hudson Terminal in Lower Manhattan via the lower IND Eighth Avenue Line south of West 4th Street. From 1954 to 1967, the D ran via the IND Culver Line to Coney Island. With the completion of the Chrystie Street Connection, service was rerouted via the BMT Brighton Line, running there from 1967 to 2001. As part of the multi-year rebuilding of the Manhattan Bridge, a short-lived yellow D service ran via the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan to the Brighton Line in Brooklyn, while orange D service used the Sixth Avenue, Central Park West, and Concourse Lines in Manhattan and the Bronx.