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The 2 Seventh Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway . It is colored red, since it uses the Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line through midtown. Trains of the service run all the time. The usual pattern is express through Manhattan and local elsewhere; at late nights it is local everywhere. Some rush hour trips run to New Lots Avenue . Also during rush hours, some trains run over the IRT Lexington Avenue Line to free up congestion.

The 2 was one of the last strongholds of the Redbird cars. Introduced in the mid- 1950s to early 1960s , they ran on the line until 2001 - 2002 and were replaced by the Bombardier -built R142s .

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SERVICE HISTORY

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