The R train is the New York City Subway service that runs between Forest Hills–71st Avenue and Bay Ridge–95th Street.
The R operates on the IND Queens Boulevard Line, the BMT Broadway Line, and the BMT Fourth Avenue Line. Its route connects central Queens with Midtown Manhattan, Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn Heights, and Bay Ridge.
The service is known as a local route, making many station stops along the Broadway and Fourth Avenue corridors. At different times in its history, the R has had several route patterns and terminal arrangements, especially during service changes and construction.
It is easy to confuse the R with the N, W, or M because those services share portions of the Queens and Manhattan network. The R’s distinctive full route links Forest Hills in Queens with Bay Ridge in Brooklyn.