Home Service Advisories A light load of weekend work for St. Patrick’s Day

A light load of weekend work for St. Patrick’s Day

by Benjamin Kabak

Friday already, huh? These weeks just fly by sometimes. Subway Weekender has the map and notes that the light work schedule is likely due to St. Patrick’s Day. Transit has to keep the subways running for the drunk hoards of folks roaming around the city. Personally, I subscribe to Chris’ take on the holiday, and I’ll be out celebrating my dad’s birthday anyway.

In other news, I’m hearing that the Smith/9th St. station along the F and G trains will not be reopening until the fall. Original estimates had the station returning to service some time this spring. I’ll try to confirm this development next week.

Anyway, here are the service changes. You know what to do.


From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday, March 18, Woodlawn-bound 4 trains skip 138th Street-Grand Concourse due to platform edge survey at 149th Street-Grand Concourse.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 17 to 5 a.m. Monday, March 19, there are no 7 trains between Times Square-42nd Street and Queensboro Plaza due to track panel installation and CBTC work south of Queensboro Plaza, ADA work at Court Square and station renewal at Hunters Point Avenue. Customers should take the N, R, E or F between Manhattan and Queens. Free shuttle buses operate between Vernon Blvd-Jackson Avenue and Queensboro Plaza. In Manhattan, the 42nd Street shuttle (S) operates overnight. (Repeats next two weekends through March 31-Apr 2.)


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 17 to 5 a.m. Monday, March 19, A trains run local in both directions between 145th Street and 168th Street and from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, March 17, and Sunday, March 18, there is no C train service between 145th Street and 168th Street due to track maintenance. Customers should take the A instead.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 17 to 5 a.m. Monday, March 19, Coney Island-bound D trains run via the N line from 36th Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue due to station and line structure rehabilitation near 9th Avenue.


From 4 a.m. Saturday, March 17 to 10 p.m., Sunday, March 18, Jamaica Center-bound J trains skip Kosciuszko Street, Gates Avenue, Halsey Street and Chauncey Street due to track panel installation at Halsey Street and Gates Avenue.


From 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, March 17 and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 18, Q service is extended to Ditmars Blvd. due to work on the 7 line.


From 4 a.m. Saturday, March 17 to 10 p.m. Sunday, March 18, Coney Island-bound Q trains skip Avenue U and Neck road due to track tie insertion.

(42nd Street Shuttle)
From 12:01 a.m. to 6 a.m., Saturday, March 17, Sunday, March 18 and Monday, March 19, 42nd Street operates all night, every 10 minutes, due to the 7 line suspension between Queens and Manhattan.

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7 comments

meera March 17, 2012 - 12:31 am

Any word on when the Coney Island-bound F will be hitting its usual stops again?

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Benjamin Kabak March 17, 2012 - 12:33 am

Probably not until the Smith/9th Sts. station reopens. So, the fall? I’ll find out next week.

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Jerrold March 17, 2012 - 10:27 am

Wait a minute, didn’t they say all along that ONE side of the Smith-9th Sts. station will reopen in the spring, and the other side will reopen in the fall?

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Lance March 17, 2012 - 6:22 pm

15 St-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Pkwy will reopen on the 2nd of April. Smith-9 Sts will remain closed until the Fall.

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meera March 22, 2012 - 1:07 am

Thank you!

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Jerrold March 17, 2012 - 4:43 pm

In the part of the MTA website pertaining to the Fulton St. Transit Center it says “New free transfer between E and R stations”. Does Ben or anybody else know if that statement is STILL true, or only something that was predicted at the time it was written? After all, the Dey St. Passage will be “out-of-system”, so then won’t the connection between the E and R simply be a kind of 90-degree bending of the Dey St. Passage?

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Adam March 18, 2012 - 9:18 am

Ben: It is confirmed. I checked the other day:

http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/Smith9Sts.htm

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