As of Thursday night, June 22 the only planned service change adversely affecting local stations this weekend — late Friday evening, June 23 through early Monday morning, June 26 — is that there will be no Manhattan bound service at High Street (but extra Manhattan bound service at York Street in DUMBO) as Manhattan bound […]
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Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
First, some good news. The Momtague Street entrances to the Court Street station on the N/R le are open again; see photo taken yesterday. This weekend — this (Friday, June 16) evening to Monday, June 19 morning — there will be no service in either direction at the 4/5 platforms at Borough Hall, as 4 […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
Just like last week I’m showing the green light for this weekend — late evening Friday, June 9 to early morning Monday, June 12 — because, as of now (early evening Thursday, June 8) the MTA’s “Planned Service Changes” website is not showing any planned changes that directly and negatively affect service at any local […]
Why Is a BQE Solution So Hard to Find? Will We Lose Chapin Playground and Access to Fulton Ferry/DUMBO?
In Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker sci-fi trilogy he imagined something called an “SEP field.” A spaceship surrounded by such a field became invisible because it was “Someone Else’s Problem.” The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, it seems, isn’t covered by a single SEP field, but by a multiplicity of them, depending on the point of view. For those of […]
Air Quality Hazardous
According to Channel 2 CBS News New York, our air quality, because of smoke and dust being conveyed south from wildfires in Canada, is at a dangerously bad level. Everyone, especially those with health conditions that make them more sensitive, should remain indoors as much as possible. Those who go outside should wear masks of […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
I’m showing the green light for this weekend — late evening Friday, June 2 to early morning Monday, June 5 — because, as of now (early morning Friday, June 2) the MTA’s “Planned Service Changes” website is not showing any planned changes that directly and negatively affect service at any local stations, except that 2 […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The bad news this long Memorial Day weekend (late Friday evening, May 26 to early Tuesday morning, May 30) is that there will be no service at Clark Street or at the 2/3 plaforms at Borough Hall, because 2 and 3 trains will not be running below 14th Street in Manhattan all through the holiday […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend — late night Friday, May 19 to early morning Monday, May 22 — there will be no service at High Street, as A and C trains will be re-routed to the F line in both directions between Jay Street-MetroTech and West 4th Street-Washington Square. There will be no late night R service in […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
If I’m to believe the MTA’s website, this weekend — late Friday evening, May 12 to early Monday morning, May 15 — will be another “green light” weekend, with no planned service changes negatively affecting service at any local stations, apart from 2 trains running on a reduced schedule (every 15 minutes) on Sunday. There […]
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
This weekend — late Friday evening, May 6 to early Monday morning, May 9 — is a “green light” weekend, as there are no planned service changes that directly affect service at any local stations. The green light remains in effect for the following work week — Monday morning, May 9 through Friday evening, May […]
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