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Open Thread: Notes and service advisories

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Benjamin Kabak

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Let’s try a new thing this weekend. For the service advisories, I’m also going to make this an open thread. Feel free to talk about anything. I have a few more notes to go over too.

  • The Boardwalk Empire Nostalgia Train is going to net the MTA “north of $150,000,” according to an MTA spokesman. That’s not a bad haul for something that’s going to attract a crowd.
  • The downtown platform at Cortlandt Street on the R train is going to open on Tuesday. The ribbon cutting is scheduled for 3 p.m., and the station will enter revenue service shortly thereafter. I’ll have photos following the photo op.
  • The Village Voice’s Runnin’ Scared blog offers a primer on subway etiquette.

With that, here are you service advisories. As always, these come to me from the MTA and are subject to change. Trains on Monday will operate on a Sunday schedule. Enjoy the long weekend.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 3 to 5 a.m. Tuesday, September 6, there are no 1 trains between 242nd Street and 168th Street due to station rehab work at Dyckman Street, platform edge and canopy work from 207th to 242nd Streets, and switch renewal work at 238th Street. A train, M3 and free shuttle buses provide alternate service.


From 4 a.m. Saturday, September 3 to 10 p.m. Sunday, September 4, uptown 2 trains run express from 3rd Avenue-149th Street to East 180th Street, due to track panel installation at Freeman Street and 174th Street.


From 12:01 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, September 3, Brooklyn-bound 4 trains run local from Franklin Avenue to Utica Avenue due to conduit installation (for new fiber optic cables) at Utica Avenue.


From 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, September 3 and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday, September 4, there are no 5 trains between East 180th Street and 149th Street-Grand Concourse due to track panel installation at Freeman Street and 174th Street. Note: Shuttle trains operate between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street. For service between East 180th Street and 149th Street-Grand Concourse, customers should take the 2 instead.


From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, September 3 and Sunday, September 4, downtown 6 trains skip Morrison Avenue-Soundview and Whitlock Avenue due to rail work at Elder Avenue. Note: At all times until October 2011, 6 trains skip Elder Avenue and St. Lawrence Avenue in both directions due to station rehabilitation.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 3 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 5, Manhattan-bound D trains run on the N line from Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue to 36th Street (Brooklyn) due to structural repair and station rehabilitation from 71st Street to Bay 50th Street and ADA work at Bay Parkway. Note: At all times until Friday, October 28, the southbound D is bypassing 71st Street due to stair reconstruction.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 3 to 5 a.m. Tuesday, September 6, E trains run on the F line in both directions between 36th Street (Queens) and West 4th Street (Manhattan) due to switch renewal north of Lexington Avenue, track panel and conduit work between Queens Plaza and Court Square-23rd Street and work on the 5th Avenue Interlocking Project.

(Nights)
From 11 p.m. Friday, September 2 to 6 a.m. Saturday, September 3, and from 11 p.m. Saturday, September 3 to 8 a.m. Sunday, September 4, and from 11 p.m. Sunday, September 4 to 8 a.m. Monday, September 5, and from 11 p.m. Monday, September 5 to 5 a.m. Tuesday, September 6, there are no G trains between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts. and Church Avenue due to installation and final inspection of track work north of Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts. G trains operate in two sections:

  • Between Court Square-23rd Street and Bedford-Nostrand Avs and
  • Between Bedford-Nostrand Avs and Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts.

Note: A trains provide connecting service between Jot-Schermerhorn Sts and Jay Street-MetroTech.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 3 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 5, there are no L trains between 8th Avenue and 14th Street-Union Square due to track work between Union Square and 6th Avenue. L trains operate in two sections:

  • Between 14th Street-Union Square and Bedford Avenue every 16 minutes, trains skip 3rd Avenue and
  • Between Bedford Avenue and Rockaway Parkway

M14 buses and free shuttle buses (overnight) provide alternate service.


From 4 a.m. Saturday, September 3 to 10 p.m. Sunday, September 4, southbound N trains run express from Astoria Boulevard to Queensboro Plaza, skipping 30th Avenue, Broadway, 36th Avenue and 39th Avenue due to track panel installation between Astoria Boulevard and 36th Avenue.

Comments

11 responses to “Open Thread: Notes and service advisories”

  1. Bolwerk

    Re The Village Voice etiquette thing: gotta generally agree. I don’t know if I’ve gotten more impatient in my old age, but it seems that I deal with a lot more people nearly running into me than I did even a decade ago. 14th Street and Bedford Avenue are two big culprits, where people seem to try to pile onto subway cars without even giving riders a chance to alight.

    Hmm, well, I’m sorry if this “anything” isn’t exactly transit-related, but it seems nowadays that the message preview on this blog simply strips HTML. Was that a deliberate change? I kind of preferred the old way of previewing with HTML.

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  2. Alex C

    That Village Voice piece should be posted in every subway car and every station. Some people on the subways are insufferable. My faves are the ones who lean on the stanchions and who blast bad music via their phone speaker.

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    1. Anon

      Entering subway stairs — stopping without warning to smoke cigarette or keep cellphone reception…

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      1. SEAN

        People who are sitting on the stairs @ Penn Station while waiting for their train & the anouncement states “for the safety of others, PLEASE DO NOT sit on the stairs!”

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    2. Farro

      Once a guy got upset at me for using my phone on the LIRR. He then proceeded to start smoking a cigarette on the train.

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  3. Steve

    Was on the D train a couple weeks ago and as it was going over the Manhattan Bridge, I smelled cigarette smoke. I walked through the car and nobody was smoking, so I walked up to the front of the door (since I was in the first car) and the smell of smoke was much stronger. I was really angry that the stupid driver was smoking a cigarette because it spread under the door throughout the car and I had no choice to leave (I wish the door in between cars were open, so I could leave) and had to inhale that garbage all because this idiot thought that by driving outside and having his window open that it wouldn’t matter. Plus, that is one long stop.

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  4. Anon

    There should be loitering enforcement on stairwells for those that block entry/exit of stairs—

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    1. petey

      and for people who like to ‘sit’ in turnstiles.

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      1. Anon

        haven’t seen that!

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  6. ajedrez

    It’s the first day of school today. Are you going to do a piece on the increased ridership that comes as a result of students or something student-related, Ben?

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