Friday Midday Subway: 7 Alerts — A Trains Delayed After the South Channel Bridge Opens, F Trains Still Skipping Four Brooklyn Stops
The midday board is shorter than the morning's 11 alerts — and different: A and Rockaway Park Shuttle trains are delayed in both directions after the South Channel Bridge opened for marine traffic, Manhattan-bound F trains still skip Avenue P, Avenue N, Bay Parkway and Avenue I, and the 7 still skips 52nd and 69th Streets in Queens.
Seven alerts are active on the subway at midday Friday, and the live one is on the water. A trains and Rockaway Park Shuttle trains are running with delays in both directions after the South Channel Bridge opened for marine traffic to pass, the MTA's alert feed says — the movable bridge on the Rockaway line doing what it is built to do, and the trains behind it absorbing the wait. It is the only delay alert on the board; everything else at midday is planned work.
Brooklyn keeps the morning's longest skip. Manhattan-bound F trains skip Avenue P, Avenue N, Bay Parkway and Avenue I for track replacement, with all trains at 18th Avenue boarding from the Coney Island-bound platform; F service between Church Avenue and Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue runs less frequently, and some Coney Island-bound trains end at Church Avenue, where riders transfer to continue. Downtown 1 trains skip 125th Street — the feed directs riders to 137th Street-City College or 116th Street-Columbia University — and at 5th Avenue/53rd Street, E and F riders enter at Fifth Avenue only while escalators are replaced, with the Madison Avenue entrance exit-only.
Queens and Staten Island carry the rest. Flushing-bound 7 trains skip 52nd Street and 69th Street for structural improvements, with all trains at Woodside-61st Street boarding from the Manhattan-bound platform and 46th Street-Bliss Street and 74th Street-Broadway as the nearby alternatives. On the Staten Island Railway, the St. George-bound east-end entrance at New Dorp remains closed until further notice for station house repairs, with the New Dorp Lane staircase and elevator as the alternative. At Riverdale, Metro-North's station, north-end access is restricted at West 255th Street for roadway construction, and pick-ups have moved to the bus drop-off area.
What cleared matters as much as what remains. The morning's disruptive-rider delays on the N and W in Astoria are gone from the board, and so is the Bronx 4 train's midday Burnside Avenue skip window as a listed alert; the line table shows the 1, 7, A, E, F, Staten Island Railway and Rockaway Park Shuttle on planned work and every other line on good service. The bigger known disruption still starts tonight and tomorrow — the weekend J and M suspension between Brooklyn and Manhattan, and the A line's nine-day Lefferts branch suspension from Saturday — both already on this desk's file. This desk re-reads the alert feed next cycle and files any change as it posts.
