If the circumstances are right, it’s always tempting to jump the turnstiles underground. No one’s around; it’s late at night; and the turnstiles are giving back one of those annoying “Just Used” messages on a card that wasn’t used.
That, at least, is what my friend Sam thought when he and his buddy tried to navigate their way into the subway this week. He found out the hard way — much like Andy Van Slyke did in the fall — that police officers assigned to the MTA beats are pretty serious about catching fare jumpers. Sam and his friend each got $60 tickets and a New York City subway fare education.
Sam tells his tale o’ woe below, video style. Weekend service changes follow.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 12, uptown 1and 2 trains skip 79th and 86th Streets due to station rehabilitation at 96th Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 12, 1 trains will skip 28th, 23rd, and 18th Streets in both directions due to work at Cortlandt Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 12, there are no 1 trains between 14th Street and South Ferry due to work at Cortlandt Street. Customers should take the 23 to travel between 14th Street and Chambers Street. Free shuttle buses are available between Chambers Street and South Ferry.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 12, 2 and 3 trains run local between 96th Street and Chambers Street due to work at Cortlandt Street.
From 4 a.m. Saturday, May 10 to 10 p.m. Sunday, May 11, Bronx-bound 4 trains skip 161st, 167th, 170th Streets, Mt. Eden Avenue, and 176th Street due to track panel installation between 149th Street-Grand Concourse and Burnside Avenue.
From 11 p.m. Friday, May 9 to 10 p.m. Sunday, May 11, downtown 4 and 6 trains run express from 125th Street to Grand Central due to a track dig-out at 86th and 96th Street stations.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 12, Manhattan-bound A and C trains run on the F line from Jay Street to West 4th Street due to Chambers Street signal modernization.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 12, downtown A and C trains skip 50th, 23rd, and Spring Streets due to station rehabilitation at 59th Street-Columbus Circle.
From 4 a.m. Saturday, May 10 to 10 p.m. Sunday, May 11, Coney Island-bound D trains run on the N line from 36th Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue due to conduit and cable work. The last stop for some Coney Island-bound N trains will be Kings Highway.
From 12:01 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, May 10, Manhattan-bound E, F and R trains run express from Union Turnpike to Roosevelt Avenue due to track cable work between 75th Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue.
From 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 9 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 12, there are no G trains between Forest Hills-71st Avenue and Court Square due to a track chip-out north of Queens Plaza. Customers should take the E or R trains instead.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 12 (and the following weekend May 17-19), downtown N trains skip 28th, 23rd, 8th, and Prince Streets due to rail repair south of 34th Street-Herald Square.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 12, Manhattan-bound NR trains are rerouted over the Manhattan Bridge from DeKalb Avenue to Canal Street due to subway tunnel lighting between Whitehall and DeKalb Avenue.
4 comments
Um, pay-per-ride MetroCards don’t show “Just Used.”
True, though in that case it hardly matters if he swiped or not as far as the MTA’s wallet is concerned. Either way it was a ride he was entitled to. I always go to the counter in those cases and they always have just let me through. I just wish there was a term for it so you didn’t have to explain what happened to a confused MTA worker who is acting like this is the first time in the history of the world this has happened.
manhattan bound e, f and r trains ran local on sunday
Well, if it’s not on the MTA’s website, I don’t get the alert. Sorry.
And the R’s running local is just standard operating procedure.