Addressing SAS downtime and weekend service

Yesterday evening from around 4 p.m. until shortly after 9:30 p.m., Second Ave. Sagas was offline, and I wanted to address that for a brief minute. The cause of the outage was a DDoS attack aimed at my server. SAS piggybacks off of the server we own to power River Ave. Blues, and our host accidentally dropped the firewall. Everything is fine now, and that should be the end of that. Thanks for your patience during the outage and thanks for reading.

Now onto the service advisories. As the holiday season progresses, the weekend work has continued to slow. Just a handful of lines are diverted, and the diversions aren’t major. As always, these come to me via New York City Transit and are subject to change without notice. Listen to on-board announcements and check signs in your local station. Subway Weekender has a map, and his map already features the new Jay St.-MetroTech station. The MTA’s online map doesn’t.

From 4 a.m. Saturday, December 11 to 10 p.m. Sunday, December 12, uptown trains operate express from East 180th Street to Gun Hill Road, skipping Bronx Park East, Pelham Parkway, Allerton Avenue and Burke Avenue stations due to track panel and tie installation north of Pelham Parkway. For service to these stations, customers may take the uptown 2 to Gun Hill Road and transfer to a downtown 2.

From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, December 11 and Sunday, December 12, uptown 4 trains skip 176th Street, Mt. Eden Avenue, 170th, 167th and 161st Streets due to rail replacement at 161st Street-Yankee Stadium.

From 4 a.m. Saturday, December 11 to 11 p.m. Sunday, December 12, Flushing-bound 7 trains skip 82nd, 90th, 103rd, and 111th Streets due to switch renewal work at 111th Street. Customers traveling to these stations may take a Flushing-bound 7 to Junction Blvd. or Mets-Willets Point and transfer to a Manhattan-bound 7.

From 11 p.m. Friday, December 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, December 13, D trains run local between DeKalb Avenue and 36th Street, Brooklyn due to switch renewal north of Pacific Street.

From 4 a.m. Saturday, December 11 to 7 p.m. Sunday, December 12, J trains run every 20 minutes between Jamaica Center and 111th Street due to work at the fan plant north of 121st Street. The last stop for some Jamaica Center-bound J trains is 111th Street.

From 11:30 p.m. Friday, December 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, December 13, M trains are replaced by free shuttle buses between Metropolitan Avenue and Myrtle Avenue due to platform edge rehabilitation.

From 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m. on Saturday, December 11, Sunday, December 12 and Monday, December 13, Manhattan-bound N trains are rerouted over the Manhattan Bridge from DeKalb Avenue to Canal Street due to Lawrence Street station rehabilitation. (No Manhattan-bound trains at Lawrence Street, Court Street, Whitehall Street, Rector Street, Cortlandt Street or City Hall. Customers may take the 4 train at nearby stations.)

From 11 p.m. Friday, December 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, December 13, N trains run local between DeKalb Avenue and 59th Street, Brooklyn due to switch work north of Pacific Street.

(Rockaway Park Shuttle)
From 10:30 p.m. Friday, December 10 to 5 a.m. Monday, December 13, free shuttle buses replace Rockaway Park Shuttle (S) trains making station stops between Rockaway Park and Beach 60th Street.