
The R was originally the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation's 2 service, running along the BMT Fourth Avenue Line in Brooklyn then traveling through the Montague Street Tunnel to Manhattan, then running local on the BMT Broadway Line. rush hour trip terminates at 96th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan instead of 71st Avenue in Queens. The R runs via Queens Boulevard in Queens, Broadway in Manhattan, and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn. The R operates local between 71st Avenue in Forest Hills, Queens and 95th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn at all times except nights, when it short turns at Whitehall Street–South Ferry in Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn.



Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored yellow since it uses the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan. The R Broadway/Fourth Avenue Local is a rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway.
