E (New York City Subway service)

	Queens Boulevard Express/; Eighth Avenue Local
	Queens bound E train of R160As enters 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal
	Note: This map represents normal service. Dashed line shows late night only service; Dashed pink line shows weekday rush hour, midday and early evening service to 179th Street
Northern end	Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (all times); Jamaica–179th Street (weekday rush hour and early evenings)
Southern end	World Trade Center
Stations	20 (weekday rush hour, midday and early evening service to/from Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer); 21 (weekday rush hour, early evening service to/from 179th Street); 22 (early evening and weekends); 32 (late nights)
Rolling stock	R160; (Rolling stock assignments subject to change)
Depot	Jamaica Yard
Started service	August 19, 1933
Route map
	switches to local tracks
	during evenings and weekends
	switches to local tracks
	during late nights
	switches to local tracks
	during late nights
	southbound
	only
	Queens
	Manhattan

The E Queens Boulevard Express/
Eighth Avenue Local is a rapid transit service in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is blue since it uses the IND Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan.

The E operates at all times between Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer in Jamaica, Queens, and the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. During rush hours, limited service originates and terminates at Jamaica–179th Street instead of Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer. Daytime service operates express in Queens and local in Manhattan; late night service serves all stops along its entire route.

E service, which is one of the most heavily used services in the subway system, started in 1933 with the opening of the IND Queens Boulevard Line. In its early years, the E train ran along the Rutgers Street Tunnel and South Brooklyn Line to Brooklyn, though this service pattern stopped by 1940. Until 1976, the E train ran to Brooklyn and Queens via the IND Fulton Street Line and IND Rockaway Line during rush hours and to the World Trade Center at other times. The E's northern terminal was switched from 179th Street to Jamaica Center with the opening of the IND Archer Avenue Line in 1988.

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