page_title: M (New York City Subway service)
section_title: MJ service
hierarchical_section_title: M (New York City Subway service) / History / MJ service
caption_attribution_description: Myrtle and Lewis
context_page_description: The M Queens Boulevard/Sixth Avenue Local 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.
  The M operates at all times. Weekday rush hour and midday service operates between 71st Avenue in Forest Hills, Queens, and Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village, Queens, making local stops along its entire route; weekday evening and weekend daytime service is cut back from 71st Avenue in Queens to Essex Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan; late night service short turns at Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn.
  The M is the only service that travels through the same borough via two different, unconnected lines. Additionally, the M is the only non-shuttle service that has both of its full-run terminals in the same borough. Though the full route length between 71st Avenue and Metropolitan Avenue is about 18.2 miles, the stations are geographically located 2.47 miles apart, marking this as the shortest geographic distance between termini for any New York City Subway service that is not a shuttle service.
context_section_description: On March 5, 1944, 11 trains stopped running over the Brooklyn Bridge, instead ending at Bridge–Jay Streets on the Brooklyn side, and all 11 trains terminated there (with a free transfer to the IND trains at Jay Street–Borough Hall). In 1967, when the Chrystie Street Connection opened, the label MJ was assigned to the 11 service.
  The western half of the Myrtle Avenue Line closed on October 4, 1969, ending MJ service, which was replaced with a free transfer to the B54 bus. Several days before the scheduled closing date, some supports for the elevated structure were hit by a truck, temporarily suspending service. Timber reinforcement was applied to damaged members, allowing service to resume operation until the scheduled closing date.
caption: The MJ formerly served the remainder of the Myrtle Avenue elevated, which was demolished in 1969 except for a small stub (pictured)
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