H (New York City Subway service)
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H was the last of the letters assigned to original routes of the
Independent Subway System of the
New York City Subway in the
1930s. It was designated as the dedicated service letter of the
IND Fulton Street Line in
Brooklyn.
The letter was intended to be used for a Fulton Street local, to run from
Court Street, an isolated stub-end station in downtown Brooklyn, to the future
Euclid Avenue station near the border with
Queens. The service, to be designated
HH (the double letter denoting a local train) was to provide local service on the Fulton Street Line, with express service on the 4-track line provided by express train through routed from
Manhattan. When service on the Fulton Street Line began, the Manhattan trains provided the local service, and the
HH ran only as a one-stop shuttle to connect Court Street with
Hoyt Street-Schermerhorn Street, where connections with other lines could be made.
During the mid-1980s and early 1990s, the
Rockaway Park Shuttle train between
Euclid Avenue and
Broad Channel was denoted as the
H and featured a white "H" on a blue background, similar to that of the , or . Today, the
H designation is not in external use, but is used internally when the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority refers to the Rockaway Park Shuttle.
