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Weekend work impacting 15 subway lines

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Benjamin Kabak

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Good news: Coney Island-bound F and Church Ave.-bound G trains will once again stop at 15th Street-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Parkway starting on Monday morning.

Bad news: The rest of this weekend’s service changes. Subway Weekender has the map.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 31 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 2, 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 207th and 242nd Sts. and track panel installation north of 215th Street.

  • For 181st and 191st Streets, take the uptown 1 to 168th Street and transfer to the M3 or free shuttle buses on St. Nicholas Avenue
  • For Dyckman Street and 207th Street, take the uptown 1 to 168th Street and transfer to the A
  • For stations from 215th to 242nd Street, take the uptown 1 to 168th Street and transfer to the A to 207th Street, free shuttle buses are available on Broadway


From 12:01 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1 and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m., Monday, April 2, downtown 4 trains run express from 14th Street-Union Square to Brooklyn Bridge due to work on the Broadway/Lafayette-to-Bleecker Street connection.


From 12:01 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. Saturday, March 31 and from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday April 1, downtown 4 trains run express from Grand Central-42nd Street to 14th Street-Union Square due to installation of conductor and gap filler lights at 14th Street-Union Square.


From 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Saturday, March 31 and from 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., Sunday, April 1, 5 trains run every 20 minutes between Dyre Avenue and Bowling Green due to work on the Broadway/Lafayette-to-Bleecker Street connection.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 31 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 2, downtown 6 trains run express from 14th Street-Union Square to Brooklyn Bridge due to work on the Broadway/Lafayette-to-Bleecker Street connection.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 31 to 5 a.m. Sunday, April 1, downtown 6 trains run express from Grand Central-42nd Street to 14th Street-Union Square due to the installation of conductor and gap filler lights at 14th Street-Union Square.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 31 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 2, 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. Note: Court Square (7) station is scheduled to reopen 5 a.m. Monday, April 2.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 31 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 2, 207th Street-bound A trains run via the F line from Jay Street-MetroTech to West 4th Street, then local to 59th Street-Columbus Circle due to electrical and substation work at Jay Street-MetroTech.


From 6:30 a.m. to midnight, Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1, there are no C trains between Manhattan and Brooklyn due to the Culver Viaduct Rehabilitation and tunnel lighting installation.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 31 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 2, Manhattan-bound D trains run via the N line from Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue to 36th Street due to station and line structure rehabilitation near 9th Avenue, then local in both directions between 36th Street and Atlantic Av-Pacific St. due to Culver Viaduct Rehabilitation and tunnel lighting installation.


From 11 p.m. Friday, March 30 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 2, Manhattan-bound D trains skip 182nd-183rd Sts. due to track maintenance.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 31 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 2, Jamaica Center-bound E trains run express from Roosevelt Avenue to Forest Hills-71st Avenue due to track maintenance.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 31 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 2, there are no F trains between Jay Street-MetroTech and 18th Avenue due to Culver Viaduct Rehabilitation and tunnel lighting installation. F trains run in two sections:

  • Between 179th Street and Jay Street-MetroTech, then rerouted via the C to Euclid Avenue
  • Between 18th Avenue and Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue

Free shuttle buses operate in three sections:

  • Between Jay Street-MetroTech and 18th Avenue (Limited stop), making stops at Church Avenue and Ditmas Avenue only
  • Between Jay Street-MetroTech and 4th Avenue-9th Street, making stops at Bergen Street, Carroll Street and Smith-9th Sts only
  • Between 4th Avenue-9th Street and Church Avenue, making stops at 7th Avenue, 15th Street-Prospect Park and Ft. Hamilton Parkway only


From 11 p.m. Friday, March 30 to 5 a.m. Monday, April 2, Brooklyn-bound F trains run via the M line after 36th Street in Queens to 47th-50th Sts in Manhattan due to SAS work at Lexington Avenue-63rd Street station.


From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, March 31 to 5a.m., Monday, April 2, there are no G trains between Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts. and Church Avenue due to Culver Viaduct Rehabilitation and tunnel lighting installation. Free shuttle buses provide alternate service via Jay Street-Metro-Tech (see F entry). G trains operate between Court Square and Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts.


From 4 a.m. Saturday, March 31 to 10 p.m., Sunday, April 1, 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 31 and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, April 1, Q service is extended to Ditmars Blvd. due to work on the 7 line.


From 6:30 a.m. to 12 midnight, Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1, Forest Hills-71st Avenue-bound R trains run express from Roosevelt Avenue to 71st Avenue due to track maintenance.

(42nd Street Shuttle)
From 12:01 a.m. to 6 a.m., Saturday, March 31, Sunday, April 1 and Monday, April 2, the 42nd Street shuttle operates all night, every 10 minutes, due to the 7 line suspension between Queens and Manhattan.

Comments

11 responses to “Weekend work impacting 15 subway lines”

  1. Alek

    Why is the D is running local in brooklyn? Since the N is express im not sure why

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    1. Benjamin Kabak

      Culver Viaduct work. Gives IND riders going to and from Manhattan an option that isn’t a shuttle bus if they’re close enough.

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  2. Steve

    Happy to see that service is being restored for Coney Island bound F trains and Church Avenue bound G trains at Ft Hamilton Pkway! Going to enjoy having that regular service back!

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  3. Jerrold

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04…..038;st=nyt

    Isn’t that Times piece badly written? Anybody reading that who is NOT a transit buff like us here, would be left with the impression that there will be a new station at Second Ave. and 63rd St. (OK, so they are are adding a Third Ave. entrance to the 63rd/Lex station. That IS a good idea, but it does not make it “count” as a new station.) ALSO, notice how they are still sticking to the date of December 2016.

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  4. Alek

    I am wondering what they are doing at the 63rd street station when the F is rerouted are they using the F platform or they are using the big blue wall. I would love pictures of what they are doing. It is tempting to sneak in and see the work zone.

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  5. The Cobalt Devil

    Kind of off topic, but here goes: Track work on Lex IRT suspended all 4 trains below B’klyn Bridge at 12:01am Tues-Fri the past few weeks. Well, that meant all 4 trains ran local only to B’klyn Bridge beginning much earlier (around 11:30). OK, i get that. So the alternate is the N train to get to Cortlandt, Rector and Whitehall streets. I grabbed a Lex Local at Grand Central at 11:53, got to Union Sq to transfer to the N and just missed one at midnight exactly. The next downtown N came at 12:25. That’s right, a 25 min wait for a local to Whitehall, which got me and a bunch of SI Ferry riders to South Ferry just 5 mins after the ferry left at 12:30.

    So using the MTA’s alternate, it took 45 mins to get from Grand Central to Battery Park, which is normally a 12 min ride. After missing the ferry, I waited until 1am, and got home to St. George at 1:40am, slightly less than 2 hours after I left work in Midtown. Two hours to go 9 miles. If anyone wonders why folks drive into midtown from the outer boros, here you have it. I wont even go into the filthy, urine covered homeless dude who took up half the car on the N portion of the ride. Every time I give the subway the benefit of the doubt, something like this happens. Never again.

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    1. The Cobalt Devil

      And to all those who say “then why don’t you move off Staten Island” i’m way ahead of you. Getting the heck out of the city altogether, lock, stock and job this June. Will not miss the subway, the grime, the rats, the pee smell, and a subway system that is slowly heading back to its 1970s and ’80s low point. I’m done kids. G’bye.

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      1. Jerrold

        Well, good luck! But remember: You know what they say about the job market being so bad these days. If you move somewhere else in order to take a specific job that exists there, what if you wind up getting fired or laid off, or if the job turns out to be so intolerable that you quit?

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        1. Alex C

          That and the suburbs turning to slums these days.

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      2. Alon Levy

        Where are you moving to?

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        1. Jerrold

          THAT’S the question that I forgot to ask in my reply to Cobalt.

          Reply

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