Your Guide to MTA's Nightmare Weekend of Service Changes

Your weekend gift from MTA is a massive tangle of overlapping repairs affecting major swaths of 17 different subway lines. Yay!

Unless otherwise noted, all apply from around midnight on Friday, July 10, to 5 a.m. on Monday, July 13.

TGIF, and try to enjoy your weekend regardless!

1 Train

• No trains will run between 14th Street and South Ferry.
  
• All trains will run express (aka, no stops) between 14th Street and 28th Street (except northbound trains running in the night)
  
• Northbound trains will run express from 96th Street to 145th Street
• Check for alternate routes
  

2 Train

• No trains will run between E 180th Street and 3rd Avenue-149th Street (from 3:30 a.m. on Saturday to 10 p.m. on Sunday)
  
• All trains will run local (aka, slow) between 34th Street-Penn Station and Chambers Street
• Check for alternate routes
  

3 Train

• No trains will run between Utica Avenue and New Lots Avenue (from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday)
  
• All trains will run local between 34th Street-Penn Station and Chambers Street
• Check for alternate routes
  

4 Train

• Southbound trains won’t stop at 103rd Street
• No trains will run between Utica Avenue and New Lots Avenue
• Northbound trains will run run express from Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall to 14th Street-Union Square
• Check for alternate routes

5 Train

• No trains will run
  
• Check for alternate routes

6 Train

• Southbound trains won’t stop at 103rd Street
• Southbound trains will run express (aka, no stops) from Hunts Point Avenue to 3rd Avenue-138th Street
• Northbound trains run express (aka, no stops) from Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall to 14th Street-Union Square
• Check for alternate routes
  

A Train

• All trains will run on the F line between Jay Street and West 4th Street
• Southbound trains will skip 50th Street, 23rd Street, Spring Street, Rockaway Boulevard and 88th Street (except for 6:30 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. on Sunday)
• Northbound trains will run express from 59th Street to 125th Street (from 11:45 p.m. on Saturday to 5 a.m. on Monday)
• No trains will run between 88th Street and Lefferts Boulevard
• Check for alternate routes
  

C Train

• Northbound trains will run on the F line between Jay Street and West 4th Street (from from 6:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday)
• Northbound trains will run express from 59th Street to 125th Street (from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Sunday)
• Southbound trains will skip 50th Street, 23rd Street and Spring Street (from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Sunday)
• Check for alternate routes
  

D Train

• Southbound trains will run on the N line from 36th Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue (from 3:45 a.m. on Saturday to 10 p.m. on Sunday)
• Check for alternate routes
  

E Train

• Northbound trains will run express from Queens Plaza to 71st Avenue
• Northbound trains will also skip 75th Avenue and Briarwood
• Check for alternate routes
  

F train

• Southbound trains will run on the E line from Roosevelt Avenue to Canal Street, and then on the A line to Jay Street
• Southbound trains will make local stops at 67th Avenue, 63rd Drive, Woodhaven Boulevard, Grand Avenue and Elmhurst Avenue
• Northbound trains will run express from Neptune Avenue to Smith-9th Street
• Northbound trains will also skip 75th Avenue, Briarwood, Sutphin Boulevard, Ditmas Avenue and Avenue X
• Check for alternate routes

J Train

• Northbound trains will skip Hewes Street, Lorimer Street and Flushing Avenue (from 6:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and from 8:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday)
• Check for alternate routes
  

L Train

• Separate trains will run between Broadway Junction and Canarsie, and they’ll only come every 24 minutes (from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday)
• Check for alternate routes

M Train

• Southbound trains will skip Hewes Street, Lorimer Street and Flushing Avenue (from 6:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and from 8:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday)
• Check for alternate routes
  

N Train

• Southbound trains will skip 49th Street
  
• Northbound trains will run on the D line from Stillwell Avenue to 36th Street
• Check for alternate routes
  

Q Train

• Southbound trains will skip 49th Street
• Northbound trains will run express from Kings Highway to Prospect Park
  
• Check for alternate routes

R Train

• Southbound trains will skip 49th Street (from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday)
• Northbound trains will run express from Queens Plaza to Forest Hills-71st Avenue (from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday)
• Check for alternate routes