Friday Afternoon Subway: Downtown 2 and 3 Trains Delayed After Urgent Track Work Near 135th Street — D Trains Held Up at Bay 50 Street

Downtown 2 and 3 trains are running with delays Friday afternoon after the transit authority conducted urgent track maintenance near 135th Street, according to the MTA's live service alerts — the freshest delay alert on the authority's feed as this desk read it in the middle of the afternoon. The alert states the cause and the direction plainly and gives no clearance time; riders on the 2 and 3 downtown should budget the delay rather than a number this desk does not have.

The second live alert is in Brooklyn. Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue-bound D trains are running with delays after the MTA requested NYPD assistance for people being disruptive on a train at Bay 50 Street. That alert was created this afternoon and was still being updated as the feed was read — the D's delay is a police-assistance hold, not a mechanical one, and it clears on the officers' timeline, not the railroad's.

Everything else on the afternoon board is the planned work this station has already filed: the 1 running every 8 minutes and the 2 and 3 every 12 minutes on reduced-service notices, the Manhattan stop skips on the downtown 1 and 2, and the weekend's J and M closure between Brooklyn and Manhattan, filed in full this morning as SQ-20261106-040. None of it is re-staged here; the planned map has not changed since that file.

The practical read for the ride home is the two live lines. If your trip runs downtown on the 2 or 3 through Harlem, or out the D toward Coney Island, check the MTA app before you leave the office — both alerts were live at the last feed read, and the next update, not this story, is the one that will say they have cleared.