Anthony Fox

November 2026

Key points

5:00 am

Trains running at once, minute by minute through the day.

Where the city empties and where it fills

Every station on a weekday in October 2024. A circle's size is the riders starting or ending a trip there in that hour. Rust means more are leaving than arriving, teal means more are arriving.

8 am

Where one station's riders go

Click any station to see the twenty places its riders travel to most.

Who is on the train, hour by hour

For each kind of fare, the share of its weekday riders who enter in each hour.

The ten busiest trips

Station to station, on an average weekday in October 2024.

Riders: MTA Subway Origin-Destination Ridership Estimate 2024, averaged over Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in October, and MTA Subway Hourly Ridership for October 2024 weekdays, both from New York State open data. Trips are the MTA's estimates from OMNY taps and MetroCard swipes, so destinations are inferred, and each trip is counted in the hour it starts.