Best Mashup of the Week: Top 50 Subway Stations

Our favorite Google map mashup of the week comes from Mignon-Media-- they put together a very cool map showing the top 50 subway stations by average daily ridership. Some of the figures aren't that surprising, like Times Square 42nd Street doing 166k per day, or Grand Central doing 139k per day. Others are a little more surprising-- who knew that Canal Street did 45k commuters per day, or 14th Street on the A Line does almost 30,000? Fun stuff! Does anyone know where this data is coming from? We'd love to know the top 50 subway stations outside of Manhattan!

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By Jake Dobkin in Arts & Entertainment on November 15, 2005 1:20 PM

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Patrick

Let's do some math. Add up all the riders at 42nd Street and Grand Central. Multiply that by 5 (work) days then multiply that by 52 weeks. Here's the kicker, multiply that by 2 (dollars) for each ride. That's how much the MTA makes each year from just two stations! And they cry poor?

mssp

Canal and 14th are not surprising in the least... all the largest hubs are at points where large numbers of people come into the city (PA at 42nd, Metro North at GC, and LIRR at PS). So it follows logically that the PATH at 14th and the Fung Wah (and a million other) busses into Chinatown have similar effects on the local subway stations.

austin

I would think that the only accurate measure of that would be from turnstile data, but I'd be very surprised if the MTA published those numbers.

dirtgirl

it seems to also think that Flushing Main Street and Forest Hills are in Brooklyn.

nice idea but i hate it when people equate nyc with one borough and then proceed to demonstrate their ignorance of the others.