Intervale Av Station: Ridership & Busiest Hours

1,998riders a day
#354 of 424busiest stations
+10%vs last year so far
7 AMbusiest hour

How busy is Intervale Av?

About 1,998 riders a day enter Intervale Av (Oct 23, 2025 – Oct 22, 2026). It is the #354 busiest of 424 subway stations. Ridership at Intervale Av is up 10% in 2026 so far compared with the same days of 2025 (whole subway: +2.9%).

When is it busiest?

Average riders entering per hour, last 56 days (from Aug 28, 2026).

The busiest hour is 7 AM, with about 236 riders entering on an average day. The quietest hour is 2 AM (about 6).

  • 12 AM10
  • 1 AM7
  • 2 AM6
  • 3 AM11
  • 4 AM21
  • 5 AM85
  • 6 AM153
  • 7 AM236
  • 8 AM196
  • 9 AM123
  • 10 AM99
  • 11 AM91
  • 12 PM92
  • 1 PM113
  • 2 PM145
  • 3 PM171
  • 4 PM151
  • 5 PM123
  • 6 PM82
  • 7 PM51
  • 8 PM39
  • 9 PM33
  • 10 PM32
  • 11 PM21

Station report card

Elevators and escalators: share of hours in service over 24 hours, October 2025 – September 2026 (MTA availability). Entrapments = times riders were stuck inside an elevator. Riders vs 2019 compares the last 12 months with 2019, the last full year before the pandemic.

Accessible (ADA)No
Escalators working (1)98% of the time · all stations: 95.5%
Escalators: unplanned outages41
Riders vs 201975% of the 2019 level (October 2025 – September 2026)

Where do riders from here go?

Share of subway trips starting here that end at each station, September 2026 (MTA origin-destination ridership estimate).

The top 5 destinations take 17% of subway trips that start at Intervale Av.

  1. 1
    Times Sq-42 St/Port Authority Bus Terminal1 2 3 7 A C E N Q R W S · Manhattan4.9%
  2. 2
    34 St-Penn Station1 2 3 · Manhattan3.8%
  3. 3
    3 Av-149 St2 5 · Bronx3.7%
  4. 4
    125 St2 3 · Manhattan2.6%
  5. 5
    Grand Central-42 St4 5 6 7 S · Manhattan2.4%

Lines at this station

On time = share of each line's trips reaching the last stop within 5 minutes of schedule (MTA terminal on-time performance), October 2025 – September 2026. The MTA measures this per line, not per station.

Intervale Av is served by the 2, 5 trains.

2 train · 72.4% on time 5 train · 81.2% on time

Nearby stations

Straight-line distance.

StationLinesRiders a dayDistance
Simpson St2 54,3680.2 mi
Prospect Av2 53,8080.3 mi
Hunts Point Av66,0400.3 mi
Longwood Av61,8100.4 mi
Freeman St2 52,5650.6 mi

Questions

How many people use Intervale Av station?

About 1,998 riders a day enter Intervale Av (Oct 23, 2025 – Oct 22, 2026). It is the #354 busiest of 424 subway stations.

When is Intervale Av station busiest?

The busiest hour is 7 AM, with about 236 riders entering on an average day. The quietest hour is 2 AM (about 6).

Is Intervale Av getting busier?

Ridership at Intervale Av is up 10% in 2026 so far compared with the same days of 2025 (whole subway: +2.9%).

Which trains stop at Intervale Av?

Intervale Av is served by the 2, 5 trains.

Data: MTA Subway Hourly Ridership (data.ny.gov). Riders are entries at the turnstiles and OMNY readers, so transfers inside the station are not counted. Updated Oct 29, 2026. All stations ranked → · All subway ridership →
Source code: github.com/MantieReid/mta-data-analysis · Analysis by Mantie Reid II (CC BY 4.0).

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