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Weekend changes impacting 13 subway lines

by Benjamin Kabak

For your weekend viewing pleasure, here’s another video of the Second Ave. TBM breaking through the wall at 63rd St. It’s subway destructo-porn at its best. Anyway, it’s the weekend. You know the drill. Have fun. Stay dry.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 26, there is no 1 train service between 242nd Street and 168th Street due to Dyckman Street station and structural rehabilitation, platform edge and canopy work at stations between 215th and 242nd Sts. and switch renewal north of 238th Street.

  • For 181st and 191st Sts., take the 1 to 168th Street and transfer to the M3 or free shuttle bus on St. Nicholas Avenue.
  • For Dyckman and 207th Sts., take the 1 to 168th Street and transfer to the A.
  • For stations between 215th and 242nd Sts., take the 1 to 168th Street, transfer to the uptown A to 207th Street and take the free shuttle bus operating along Broadway.


From 1 a.m. Saturday, September 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 26, 4 trains skip Fulton Street in both directions due to work on the Fulton Street Transit Center. For alternate service, take the 2, 3, A, C or J instead. Note: J shuttle train operates between Fulton Street and Chambers Street-Brooklyn Bridge.


From 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Saturday, September 24 and from 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Sunday, September 25, 5 trains skip Fulton Street in both directions due to work on the Fulton Street Transit Center. For alternate service, take the 2, 3, A, C or J instead. Note: J shuttle train operates between Fulton Street and Chambers Street-Brooklyn Bridge.


From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 25, downtown 6 trains run express from Pelham Bay Park to Parkchester due to rail and switch work south of Pelham Bay Park.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 26, Manhattan-bound D trains run on the N line from Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue to 36th Street 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. So, there is no D service at 71st Street this weekend. During the day, Manhattan-bound D trains skip 53rd Street and 45th Street. Customers should use the R instead.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 26, E trains run on the F line in both directions between 36th Street, Queens and West 4th Street due to a concrete pour for switch renewal work north of Lexington Avenue. Platforms at 5th Avenue, Lexington Avenue-53rd Street and Court Square-23rd Street are closed.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 26, Queens-bound F trains run on the A line from Jay Street-MetroTech to West 4th Street due to electrical and substation work at Jay Street-MetroTech and the Broadway/Lafayette-to-Bleecker Street transfer.


From 11 p.m. Friday, September 23 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 26, there is no G train service between Court Square and Bedford-Nostrand Avs due to *deep well rehabilitation north of Bergen Street. Free shuttle buses provide alternate service. (*The deep well facilities pump out ground water, keeping water levels below the subway structure in order to prevent flooding. The wells vary in depth from about 60 ft. to 85 ft. below the sidewalk. This weekend’s work involves upgrading the currently outdated, individual control systems for six deep well facilities in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn along the G line. The installation of fiber optic cables routed to each well will connect them to one another and to the NYCT network to allow for a more efficient ground water control operation in the section of the G line that they serve.)


From 1 a.m. Saturday, September 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 26, J shuttle trains will operate between Fulton Street and Chambers Street-Brooklyn Bridge due to work at the Fulton Street Transit Center. (No 4 or 5 trains at Fulton Street.)


From 6 a.m. Saturday, September 24 to 6 p.m. Sunday, September 25, L trains run in two sections due to fencing installation at the Canarsie Yard:

  • Between 8th Avenue and Broadway Junction and
  • Between Broadway Junction and Rockaway Parkway (every 24 minutes)


From 4 a.m. Saturday, September 24 to 10 p.m. Sunday, September 25, 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.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 26, Coney Island-bound N trains operate on the D line in Brooklyn from 36th Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue due to track panel installation between 59th Street and 86th Street.


From 10 p.m. Friday, September 23 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 26, uptown N trains skip Prince, 8th, 23rd, and 28th Streets due to platform edge rehabilitation at 34th Street.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, September 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, September 26, there is no Q train service between 57th Street-7th Avenue and Prospect Park due to tunnel ceiling inspection and structural repairs. For service between 57th Street-7th Avenue and Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street, customers may take the N or R. For service between Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street and Prospect Park, customer may use the free shuttle bus.


From 6:30 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 25, uptown R trains skip Prince, 8th, 23rd, and 28th Streets due to platform edge rehabilitation at 34th Street.

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6 comments

Anon September 23, 2011 - 8:32 pm

iPod Prior Art Found on NYC Subway in 1950s.

Something called a “chalk board”
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Brian September 23, 2011 - 9:10 pm

“you know the drill” nice pun

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SEAN September 24, 2011 - 9:47 pm

Good one! It took a second or two to registor.

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petey September 25, 2011 - 12:42 am

“uptown N trains skip Prince, 8th, 23rd, and 28th Streets due to platform edge rehabilitation at 34th Street.”

i don’t follow. shouldn’t they be skipping 34th street and not the others?

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Brian September 25, 2011 - 12:47 am

probably means theyre working on the local side at 34 street so the N has to stop at the express tracks

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petey September 25, 2011 - 5:13 pm

right, thanks, got it now

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