Friday Morning Subway: 11 Alerts — N and W Delayed After a Disruptive Rider at 30th Avenue, F Trains Skip Four Brooklyn Stops
The Friday morning commute runs through 11 active MTA alerts: N and W trains are delayed in both directions after police assisted with a disruptive person at 30th Avenue in Astoria, Manhattan-bound F trains skip Avenue P, Avenue N, Bay Parkway and Avenue I, and the 7, 4 and 1 each carry a skip of their own.
Eleven alerts are active on the subway this Friday morning, and the live one is in Astoria. N and W trains are running with delays in both directions after the NYPD assisted with someone being disruptive on a train at 30 Avenue, the MTA's alert feed says; downtown N and W trains have resumed making their scheduled stops from Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard to Queensboro Plaza, which is the sign that the incident itself has cleared even while the delays work themselves out.
The planned work is the longer list. In Brooklyn, 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 for station improvements — 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 the Bronx carry the rest of the subway list. All Manhattan-bound 7 and 7X trains stop at 74th Street-Broadway while Flushing-bound 7X express trains skip it, and Flushing-bound 7 local trains skip 52nd Street and 69th Street, with all trains at Woodside-61st Street boarding from the Manhattan-bound platform — structural improvement work on the Flushing line. In the Bronx, Woodlawn-bound 4 trains skip Burnside Avenue today between 9:45 AM and 3:00 PM, with 176th Street and 183rd Street as the alternatives. On Staten Island, the St. George-bound east-end entrance at New Dorp remains closed until further notice for station house repairs, and fallen leaves may slow Staten Island Railway service, as crushed leaves leave a slippery residue on the rails.
Beyond the subway, the 8:18 AM Metro-North train from Grand Central to Southeast is operating 15 to 20 minutes late because of a mechanical issue, and Riverdale station's north-end access is restricted at West 255th Street, with pick-ups moved to the bus drop-off area. None of this morning's alerts closes a line outright — it is a delays-and-skips morning, not a shutdown morning — and the bigger known disruption still starts tomorrow, when the A line's nine-day Lefferts branch suspension begins. This desk re-reads the alert feed next cycle and files any change as it posts.
