https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_(New_York_City_Subway_service)
Not from the area but I suspect that it has to do with the major stops that it has (Nain Street, Times Square). I don't know much about mass transit though as we don't really have subways on the West Coast.
Where are you based?
There are a lot of folks who go out to Times Square and Hudson Yards. And on the other side the 7 stops at many busy stations in Queens, too.
And during peak times remember there are 7 and 7x running at the same time, so they probably keep all those trains in non peak but running local.
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