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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity

No, it’s not a grade for the whole system this long Presidents’ Day weekend or the week after. The only planned service disruption directly affecting local stations during the holiday weekend–from 10:30 p.m. Friday, February 17 to 5:00 a.m. Tuesday, February 21–is the diversion of F trains in both directions to the Q line between […]

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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity

It’s another heavy maintenance weekend, as post-Sandy repair work closes two major lines serving the Heights, the 4/5 line at Borough Hall and the A/C line at High Street, in both directions from 11:45 p.m. Friday, February 3 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, February 6. A and C trains are being diverted to the F line […]

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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity

Post-Sandy repair work on the 4/5 tunnel connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan resumes this weekend, so there will be no service in either direction on the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall from 11:45 p.m. tonight (Friday, January 27) and 5:00 a.m. Monday, January 30. 2, 3, and R trains will, barring unforeseen problems, provide alternative service. […]

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Subway Service Alerts, and a Tale of Subterranean Woe

This weekend–11:45 p.m. Friday, January 20 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, January 23–there will be no service between Brooklyn and Manhattan, in either direction, on the 2/3 line. This means no service at Clark Street or on the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall. Use the 4 or 5 (extended to Brooklyn this weekend) at Borough Hall, […]

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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity

There’s lots of subway maintenance work this weekend. Post-Sandy repair work on the 4/5 tunnel connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan continues this weekend, so there will be no service in either direction on the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall from 11:45 p.m. this Friday, January 13 and 5:00 a.m. Monday, January 16. 2, 3, and R […]

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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity

Following a break for the holidays, post-Sandy repair work on the 4/5 tunnel connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan resumes this weekend, so there will be no service in either direction on the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall from 11:45 p.m. this Friday, January 6 and 5:00 a.m. Monday. 2, 3, and R trains will, barring unforeseen […]

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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity

This holiday weekend, like last holiday weekend, the MTA hasn’t scheduled any major maintenance projects that would disrupt service at any local stations. There will be the usual station skips for those stations under renovation, and malfunctioning or non-functioning elevators (including one for the Borough Hall station and, unless they get it fixed sooner, one […]

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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity

It’s an all green, no red holiday weekend on the subways, as there are no planned route diversions, cancellations, or station skips affecting service at local stations, or pretty much anywhere on the system. Troubles don’t start until 11:45 p.m. next Tuesday, December 27, when there will be no late night (until 5:00 a.m. Wednesday) […]

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Heads Up, Straphangers: Clark Street Tunnel To Close On Weekends

The MTA has announced that in order to make Sandy-related repairs on the 2/3 line, service to the neighborhood will be suspended on weekends beginning this spring, through 2018. The MTA expects the work to take 56 weekends. “The Clark St project is the next phase in what is the most extensive reconstruction and fortification effort […]

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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity

Just like the past two weekends, from 11:45 p.m. Friday, December 9 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, December 12, and again late nights (11:45 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.) the following week (Monday, December 12 to Friday, December 16) there will be no service in either direction at Court Street or on the R/N platforms at Jay […]

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