Barring any unforseen circumstances, we’re calling this New Year’s weekend (late Friday evening, December 29 through early Tuesday morning, January 2, 2024) a “green light weekend,” as there are no planned cancellations, route changes, or station skips directly affecting service at any local stations. Indded, this is true throughout the system, apart from a long-standing […]
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Christmas Eve Horror at High Street: Four Passengers Injured by Track Fire
Early Christmas Eve, as Mary Frost in the Eagle reports (see Mary’s linked story for photos taken at the scene), a “fire caused by debris broke out on the tracks” at the High Street station just as a train was arriving. FDNY units responded quickly, passengers were evacuated, and four were “transported to local hospitals […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This Christmas weekend the only planned change affecting service at local stations is that late night Friday, December 22 to early morning Saturday, December 23 and late night Saturday through all day Sunday, December 24 until early Monday morning, December 25 Brooklyn bound N trains will be re-routed the the Q line between Canal Street […]
BQE “Boondoggle”: Bad and Good News
Mary Frost’s Eagle story contains what she calls some “chilling” information about the City Department of Transportation’s and Mayor Adams’s plans for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway beyond the urgent repair work now underway. The bad news for Brooklyn Heights is that these plans would include demolition of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (although it would eventually be […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend — late Friday night Friday night, December 15 to early Monday morning, December 18 — there will be no late night service in either diewction at Court Street or at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech, as N trains will be re-routed to the Q line between DeKalb Avenue and Canal Street, and […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Unlike last weekend, service disruptions at local stations are fairly minimal this weekend — Friday evening, December 8 to Mondy morning, December 11. A trains should be running normally in both directions at Jay Street-MetroTech and at High Street, but once again there will be a change of service, this time at Rockaway Boulevard, that […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
It’s a heckuva mess this weekend: late Friday evening, December 1 to early Monday morning, December 4. It’s easier to list the trains that should be running normally in both directions at local stations: the 2 (although it will be running on a reduced schedule, every 12 minutes), 3, 4, (5 trains don’t serve Brooklyn […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This coming weekend — late Friday evening, November 24 to early Monday morning, November 27 — the only late night service at Court Street and at the N/R platforms at Jay Street-MetroTech will be Brooklyn bound N trains, as Manhattan bound N trains will be re-routed to the Q line between DeKalb Avenue and Canal […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The bad and good news for this weekend — late Friday evening, November 17 to early Monday morning Monday, November 20 — is pretty much the same as last weekend’s. The bad news is that there will be no 2 or 3 train service to or from Brooklyn this weekend (late Friday night to early […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The bad news is that there will be no 2 or 3 trqin service to or from Brooklyn this weekend (late Friday night to early onday morning), so no service at Clark Street or at the 2/3 platforms at Borough Hall. The good news is that 4, A, C, F, N, and R trains should, […]
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