Mar
30
You can’t take the A train if you want to leave Brooklyn
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If you’re on the A or C line in Brooklyn, everything is messed up this weekend. The MTA has to replace a 71-year-old piece of railbed, and that means major service disruptions.
First, there is no C service at all, and the A trains are running local. Except Jay St.-Borough Hall and Utica Ave where shuttle buses will operate. Take the L, says the MTA. For more on that, check out the MTA’s site.
Meanwhile, the rest of your subway service advisories are much the same as they have been. No 7 service; weird West and East Side service on the IRT; yadda, yadda, yadda.
But to get you through your weekend subway blues, Second Ave. Sagas presents yet another trip down memory lane. In this classic clip from 1970s TV staple The Electric Company, Morgan Freeman – yes, The Morgan Freeman – bemoans that “nobody loves the subway.” It’s brilliant.
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Most excellent. I love that it’s Morgan Freeman as the mayor! I expected the action to freeze and hear his voice as a narration. “In my younger years as Mayor Thayer…”