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Changes Will Ravage The 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, E, F, N, Q & R Trains This Weekend
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Aug 27, 2015
Modified Aug 27, 2015
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Rebecca Fishbein
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It's the last weekend of August, which means we've only got so much time until the beaches shrivel up and air-conditioners turn into pumpkins, birds fly back to China where they lay eggs that will become dragons, and the sun spontaneously combusts above our heads. In keeping with summer weekend work tradition, there are heaps of cool changes hitting our public transit system over the next few days, but hell, walk anyway. The outdoors will only be kind to you for so long.
Here's what's on tap this weekend:
1 trains will not run in either direction between 14 St and South Ferry, starting at 11:30 p.m. Friday and ending at 5 a.m. on Monday.
2 trains will not run in either direction between E 180 St and 149 St-Grand Concourse from 11:30 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. Trains will make local stops between Chambers St and 34 St-Penn Station during that time.
3 trains will not run between Crown Hts-Utica Av and New Lots Av in either direction, starting at 6:30 a.m. and ending at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. 3 trains will also make local stops between Chambers St and 34 St-Penn Station in both directions from 6:30 a.m. to midnight on Saturday and Sunday.
4 trains will not run between Crown Hts-Utica Av and New Lots Av in either direction from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 7:30 a.m. Sunday, and again from 11:30 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday. Crown Hts-Utica Av bound trains will make express stops from Grand Central-42 St to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall during that period.
5 trains will not run in either direction between E 180 St and Bowling Green from 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Saturday and from 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall bound 6 trains will make express stops from Grand Central-42 St to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall from 11:45 0.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.
A trains will run along the F line from W 4 St-Wash Sq to Jay St-MetroTech from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. Inwood-207 St bound trains will run express from 125 St to 168 St, with that change in effect from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 6:30 a.m. Sunday and again from 11:45 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday.
C trains will reroute along the F line from W 4 St-Wash Sq to Jay St-MetroTech from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. 168 St-bound C trains will run express from 125 St to 168 St during that period.
E trains will make local stops between Queens Plaza and Forest Hills-71 Av in both directions, starting at 12:01 Saturday and ending at 5 a.m. Monday.
Coney Island-Stillwell Av bound F trains will reroute along the M line from Roosevelt Av to 47-50 Sts, with that change in effect from 9:45 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. All F trains will make local stops in Queens from 12:01 a.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Monday.
N trains will reroute along the D line from Coney Island-Stillwell Av to 36 St in both directions from 11:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday. Astoria-Ditmars Blvd bound trains will skil 49 St from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.
Manhattan-bound Q trains will make express stops from Kings Hwy to Prospect Park from 11:15 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. Trains on that track will skip 49 St from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 6:30 a.m. Sunday, and again from 11:45 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday.
36 St-bound R trains will stop at 53 St and 45 St from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 6:30 a.m. Sunday, and again from 11:45 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday. Uptown R trains will skip 49 St from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
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