Home Service Advisories A new subway iPhone app and service advisories

A new subway iPhone app and service advisories

by Benjamin Kabak

This video may just push me to get an iPhone. It’s a video of a yet-to-be-approved iPhone app that calculates a user’s location and shows the nearest subway stations. It will be available from acrossair as soon as Apple approves it, and you can drool over it find out more information right here.

On that brief note, the weekend service advisories. Remember: These are from the MTA and are subject to change without notice. Please check the signs in stations as you travel and be sure to listen to on-board announcements.


From 12:01 a.m. to 7 a.m. Saturday, July 18, from 12:01 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sunday, July 19 and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, Brooklyn-bound 2 and 4 trains skip Bergen Street, Grand Army Plaza and Eastern Parkway due to rail installation and switch renewal.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, Manhattan-bound 2 and 5 trains run express from East 180th Street to 3rd Avenue due to signal cable installation south of East 180th Street.


From 12:01 a.m. Sunday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, downtown 4 trains run local from 125th Street to Brooklyn Bridge due to Broadway-Lafayette Street to Bleecker Street transfer construction.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, uptown 4 trains run express from 14th Street to 125th Street due to Broadway-Lafayette Street to Bleecker Street transfer construction.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, there are no 5 trains between Bowling Green and 42nd Street-Grand Central due to Broadway-Lafayette Street to Bleecker Street transfer construction. Customers may take the 4 instead.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, uptown 6 trains run express from Brooklyn Bridge to 14th Street due to Broadway-Lafayette Street to Bleecker Street transfer construction.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, Manhattan-bound 6 trains run express from Hunts Point Avenue to 3rd Avenue due to platform edge rehabilitation at Cypress Avenue, East 143rd Street, East 149th Street and Longwood Avenue stations.


From 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 18 and Sunday, July 19, free shuttle buses and shuttle train service replace the A between Howard Beach-JFK Airport and the Rockaways due to rail work on South Channel Bridge.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, there is no C service due to Jay Street station rehabilitation and construction of the underground connector. A trains replace the C making local stops between 168th Street and Jay Street and F trains replace the C between Jay Street and Euclid Avenue.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, Coney Island-bound D trains run on the N line from 36th Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue due to repair of retaining wall and viaduct at the Coney Island Yard.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, Brooklyn-bound D trains skip DeKalb Avenue and run express from Pacific Street to 36th Street due to track chip-out at DeKalb Avenue.


From 11:30 p.m. Friday, July 17 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, Manhattan-bound EF trains run local from Forest Hills-71st Avenue to Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue due to track and roadbed replacement at Grand Avenue.


From 12:30 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, Jamaica-bound EF trains run local from Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue to Forest Hills-71st Avenue due to track and roadbed replacement at Grand Avenue.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, Queens-bound E trains run express from Queens Plaza to Jackson-Heights Roosevelt Avenue due to rail work north of Queens Plaza.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, F trains run on the G line from Jay Street to Euclid Avenue and G trains replace the F from Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts. to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue due to Jay Street station rehabilitation and construction of underground connector.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, there is no G train service between Forest Hills-71st Avenue and Court Square. Customers should take the E or R instead.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, N trains run local between 59th Street-4th Avenue and Pacific Street due to a track chip-out at DeKalb Avenue station.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, Brooklyn-bound N and Q trains run on the R line from Canal Street to DeKalb Avenue due to a track chip-out at DeKalb Avenue.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, Queens-bound R trains run express form Queens Plaza to Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue due to rail work north of Queens Plaza.

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11 comments

Working Class July 17, 2009 - 3:26 pm

They already have an app that does the same thing including giving the latest service advisories. It’s a great app called iTransNYC

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rhywun July 17, 2009 - 10:44 pm

I don’t think iTrans does what the video is showing.

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Jonathan July 17, 2009 - 4:08 pm

I was wondering if anyone could figure out exactly where they filmed the video, triangulating from the various listed subway stops.

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rhywun July 19, 2009 - 10:58 am

Broadway on the (G)?

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Adam G July 17, 2009 - 5:18 pm

From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 18 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 20, there is no C service due to Jay Street station rehabilitation and construction of the underground connector. A trains replace the C making local stops between 168th Street and Jay Street and F trains replace the C between Jay Street and Euclid Avenue.

I don’t understand this rerouting. The C doesn’t separate from the A until after Hoyt-Schermerhorn; what does Jay St have to do with it?

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Andrew July 17, 2009 - 7:20 pm

Because of the Jay St. work (presumably on the tracks that the F normally uses), the F is rerouted to Euclid Ave., replacing the C.

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Adam G July 17, 2009 - 10:15 pm

D’oh, missed that part entirely. Thanks!

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Alon Levy July 19, 2009 - 7:44 pm

The stopping pattern I just saw on the 4 is different from this given by your post. Heading downtown, the 4 ran local, at least from 68th, where I got on; heading uptown, it ran express from Brooklyn Bridge to 14th, but then made all local stops. The conductor said that the 5 would provide express service north of 42nd instead.

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Benjamin Kabak July 19, 2009 - 7:48 pm

As it says in the post, these are alerts as I get them from the MTA and are subject to change without notice.

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rhywun July 20, 2009 - 12:11 am

Yeah, weekend travel is pretty much a crap-shoot. You take what you can get.

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Andrew July 20, 2009 - 10:46 pm

Looks like whoever wrote up that alert accidentally substituted “express” for “local.”

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