This Presidents’ Day weekend (late tonight to early Tuesday morning, February 21) there will be no service at the Court Street-Borough Hall N/R station or at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech, as N and R trains will be re-routed to the Q line in both directions between DeKalb Avenue and Canal Street. Service on […]
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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend the only planned service change directly affecting local stations is that on Saturday, February 11 and Sunday, February 12 N and R trains will be running every fifteen minutes, so expect to wait longer at Court Street and at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech. The following work week — Early morning Monday, […]
Subway Service Alerts, Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
I’m calling this weekend — late night Friday, February 3 to early morning Monday, February 6 — a green light weekend, as, barring the unforeseen (which can never be discounted), all trains serving all local stations should be running to and from those stations. The only departure from the normal is that 2 trains will […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend (Late Friday evening, January 27 to early Monday morning, January 30) there will be no 3 train service in either direction at Borough Hall or at Clark Street. 2 trains will be making all 3 stops between 34th Street-Penn Station and Franklin Avenue-Medgar Evers College and 4 trains will make all 3 stops […]
Community Board 2 Seeks Comments on Funding Priorities
This coming Monday, January 30 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., Brooklyn Community Board 2, which includes Brooklyn Heights, will have a public Zoom meeting to invite comments on CB 2’s “Community District Needs Statement” and city agencies’ responses to those needs. CB 2’s needs, and the agency responses, can be seen here at pages 24-50. […]
Meet The New Elevators, Same As The Old Elevators
On the evening of Friday, Jan. 20, the entrance to the center elevator at the Clark St. station was barricaded by a yellow folding gate, and a nearby sign informed riders that the elevator would be out of service for the next several days. If you’re feeling a little déjà vû all over again…you’re not […]
MTA Gives Low Priority to Upgrade of York Street Station Called a “disaster waiting to happen”
As reported by Mary Frost in The Eagle, the MTA has made upgrading the York Street subway station in DUMBO, which serves the F line (and during what seem to be frequent route diversions, the A and C lines as well), “low on its list of priorities”. Asked why, at a Zoom town hall sponsored […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend — Friday evening, January 13 to Monday morning (Martin Luther King Day, January 16) — there are no planned cancellations or or route diversions directly affecting service at any local stations. The following week — late nights Monday, January 16 to Friday, January 20 — there will be no Brooklyn bound service at […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The only planned service change directly affecting any local stations this weekend — late evening Friday, January 6 through early Monday morning, January 9 — is that 4 trains will not be serving Brooklyn in either direction. This means there will be no service at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, as 5 trains do […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This New Year’s weekend and the following work week: Friday evening, December 30 through Friday evening, January 5, there are no planned route changes or cancellations directly affecting service at any local stations. Those planning to join the festivities at Times Square should know that the Times Square-42nd Street street exits for the 1, 2, […]
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