Not much to say here on a night when this happened to the Yanks in Kansas City. You get service advisories for the weekend instead, and I’ll have more content later in the morning.
Note the first entry. I can honestly say I’ve never seen a 15-hour train diversion due to a movie filming. I hope someone’s getting some money out of that one. Otherwise, that seems like a pretty flimsy reason to skip a reasonably popular station.
From 5 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday, May 6, downtown 1 trains skip 125th Street due to movie filming.
- To this station, customers may transfer to the M4 bus at 137th Street (free transfers issued) or take the downtown 1 train to 116th Street and transfer to an uptown 1 train.
- From this station, customers may take the M4 or M104 bus to 116th Street (free transfers issued) and transfer to a downtown 1 train.
From 12:01 a.m. Sunday, May 6 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 7, 3 service is extended to New Lots Avenue due to platform edge, mechanical and electrical work at Fulton Street and renewal of switches north of Borough Hall. Note: 3 trains operate express in both directions between Chambers Street and 96th Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Sunday, May 6 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 7, there are no 4 trains between Brooklyn Bridge and New Lots Avenue due to platform edge, mechanical and electrical work at Fulton Street and renewal of switches north of Borough Hall. Customers should take the 3, N, Q or R instead. Note: 4 trains operate local in both directions between 125th Street and Brooklyn Bridge.
From 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Sunday, May 6, there are no 5 trains between Grand Central-42nd Street and Bowling Green due to platform edge, mechanical and electrical work at Fulton Street and renewal of switches north of Borough Hall. Customers should take the 4 (operating between Woodlawn and Brooklyn Bridge.), Q or R trains instead. 5 trains run every 20 minutes between Dyre Avenue and Grand Central-42nd Street.
- For service between Grand Central-42nd Street and Bowling Green, customers may take the 4.
- For service between Brooklyn Bridge and Bowling Green, customer may use the nearby Cortlandt Street, Rector Street and Whitehall Street R stations, served by the uptown Q and Brooklyn-bound R trains during this time.
From 11:30 p.m. Saturday, May 5 to 6 a.m. Sunday, May 6, 207th Street-bound A trains are express from Canal Street to 59th Street-Columbus Circle due to switch replacement north of West 4th Street.
From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6, Manhattan-bound C trains run express from Euclid Avenue to Broadway Junction due to system inspection.
From 12:01 am to 6 a.m., Saturday, May 5 and Sunday May 6 and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m., Monday, May 7, Bronx-bound D trains run express from 36th Street to Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street, skipping DeKalb Avenue due to track work north of Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street.
From 11:30 Saturday, May 5 to 6 a.m. Sunday, May 6, Queens-bound E trains run express from Canal Street to 42nd Street-Port Authority due to switch replacement north of West 4th Street.
From 12:01 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6 and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m., Monday, May 7, Manhattan-bound N trains run express from 36th Street to Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street, then via the Manhattan Bridge, skipping DeKalb Avenue due to track work north of Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 5 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 7, Manhattan-bound Q trains run via the R line between DeKalb Avenue and Canal Street due to track work north of Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street.
From 11:30 p.m. Friday, May 4 to 5 a.m. Monday, May 7, Manhattan-bound Q trains run express from Sheepshead Bay to Prospect Park due to track panel installation south of Kings Highway.
From 6:30 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6, Manhattan-bound R trains run express from 36th Street to Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street, then via the Manhattan Bridge, skipping DeKalb Avenue due to track work north of Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street. Note: Manhattan-bound Q trains replace the N and R, stopping at Jay Street-MetroTech, Court Street, Whitehall Street, Rector Street, Cortlandt Street and City Hall.
From 12:01 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6 and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m., Monday, May 7, there are no R trains between 59th Street and 36th Street in Brooklyn due to track work north of Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street. Customers should use the N instead. R trains operate between 95th Street and 59th Street in Brooklyn.
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s/moving/movie/ And it’s not affecting all 11 routes.
These service advisories are old an incorrect. Someone tell Ben he posted the wrong ones
These are the most recent ones from the MTA press department. What’s incorrect here?
I hate when film crews take over a neighborhood in the city. They don’t give the residents who are inconvenienced a single dime! We should at least get free passes to see the film.
A Chase ad was filmed on my block last year and they acted like I was in the way for trying to get to my own apartment. I don’t understand where they get the entitlement.
The City makes money on them, so no one will tell them to act differently.
I’m assuming they want some sort of shot with the option of having either 125th Street looking east and/or (using a marco lens) the Palisades looking west in the background, since there’s really no other reason to pick that station to shut for 15 hours, instead of some other elevated stop in a lower-volume location if the scene just requires a generic platform shot.
I also wonder if they’re also going to delay/restrict 1 trains passing through the station in both directions during the shoot, annoying not just 125th St. downtown passengers but riders going to/from stations north of there.
Why couldn’t the track work on the Q (southern portion) have been done when the platforms (and therefore track) were closed for rehabbing?!
It’s only skipping in one direction. It’s not that big a deal to overshoot your stop by one station and come back to 125th on the uptown.
That’s fine if you’re going to 125th. It’s less fine if you’re coming from 125th, since you have to pay a second fare to switch directions at 137th.
The advisory recommends taking the M4 or M104 bus to 116th, but buses were bypassing the nearest bus stop due to the filming, and with the bike tour and a few parades and street fairs, today was a pretty bad day to have to rely on any bus in Manhattan.
I noticed that the MTA is ain’t sending out the J shuttles when the 4/5 is not running to Lower Manhattan/Brooklyn. I wonder why they don’t do that anymore?
Money. There is no reason they can’t do it logistically.
I live near the 125th St. stop on the 1. I suspect that one reason it’s shut down is to prevent people from congregating on the downtown platform to watch the action.