The MTA has a present for users of local subway stations. There are no planned route changes or cancellations directly affecting service at any local stations this Christmas weekend or the following week, through Friday evening, December 30. Always check MTA Info for unplanned service changes that may affect local service or service on other […]
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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This will be another “green light weekend” for service at local stations, as there are no planned re-routings or cancellations directly affecting service at those stations. However, late nights and early mornings the following week — Monday, December 19 to Friday, December 23 — there will be two changes affecting local service. There will be […]
Possible BQE Designs Revealed
Mary Frost, in the Eagle reports on yesterday evening’s meeting, in which DOT officials revealed three possible plans for the Central portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, which sits below Brooklyn Heights and the Promenade, between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Street. Renderings of these plans, dubbed “The Stoop”, “The Terraces”, and “The Lookout”, can be seen […]
BHA Raises BQE Alarm; Public Invited to Meetings Next Week
The Brooklyn Heights Association has issued a call to arms to the community concerning possible future plans for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway: Among the things we are hearing is that rebuilding and potentially even widening the BQE to accommodate six lanes of traffic is most definitely on the table. If true, we believe that it would […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
It’s a “green light” both this weekend and the following week, as there are no planned routing or schedule changes directly affecting service at any local stations. Always check MTA Info for unplanned service changes that may affect local service or service on other parts of your trip, or for planned service changes that affect […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
On Saturday and Sunday, December 3 and 4, there will be no service in either direction at Court Street or at the N/R platforms of the Jay Street-MetroTech station, as N and R trains will be diverted to the Q line between DeKalb Avenue and Canal Street. All other lines that serve local stations should […]
MTA to Add Three Elevators at Borough Hall Station
Gothamist reports that the MTA plans major changes to the Borough Hall subway station: At Brooklyn’s busy Borough Hall station, MTA officials . . . seek approval for a separate $106 million contract to add three new elevators, work to reduce the gap between platforms and train cars, and other infrastructure improvements. The construction will […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
It’s a “green light” both this weekend and the following week, as there are no planned routing or schedule changes directly affecting service at any local stations. Always check MTA Info for unplanned service changes that may affect local service or service on other parts of your trip, or for planned service changes that affect […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The only planned change directly affecting service at any local stations this weekend — late Friday evening, November 18 to early Monday morning, November 21 — is that there will be no Manhattan bound C train service at High Street, as Manhattan bound C trains are to be diverted to the F line between Jay […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend — late night Friday, November 11 to early Monday morning , November 14 — should be a “green light weekend” for service at local stations, as there are no planned service changes that directly affect service at those stations. The following work week, Monday, November 14 to Friday, November 18, late nights Monday […]
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