Late Nights This Week: No 4 Trains Between Grand Central and Utica Avenue — 3 Trains Cover Brooklyn Instead
Every late night this work week, from Monday morning, November 9 through Friday evening, November 13, 4 train service is suspended in both directions between Grand Central-42nd Street and Utica Avenue-New Lots Avenue — and the 3 train, which normally does not serve Brooklyn late at night, runs from Manhattan to Brooklyn, serving every 4 train stop in the borough.
The weekend's work ends Monday morning; the work week's work is a late-night story. From Monday morning, November 9 through Friday evening, November 13, 4 train service will be suspended in both directions between Grand Central-42nd Street and Utica Avenue-New Lots Avenue late nights into the early mornings, all week, in the MTA's planned changes reported this cycle. That is the whole Lexington Avenue-to-Brooklyn span of the 4 — through the East Side of Manhattan, across the river, and down Eastern Parkway to the end of the line.
Brooklyn keeps its trains, under a different number. For riders traveling to or from Brooklyn, 3 trains — which normally do not serve Brooklyn late at night — will run from Manhattan to Brooklyn and serve all 4 train stops in Brooklyn, so a late-night rider in Crown Heights, Flatbush or East New York boards a 3 where a 4 would normally come. The gap is Manhattan's East Side: riders traveling to or from the East Side late at night are directed to the N or R instead. The pattern repeats each late night of the work week, so the check belongs in the nightly routine, not just Monday's.
Two cautions ride with the plan. These are the PLANNED changes; the post reporting them directs riders to MTA Info for unplanned service changes, and this desk repeats that direction rather than dressing the plan up as a live status — tonight's actual service is whatever the MTA's live feed says when a rider checks it. And the late-night suspension is separate from the daytime city: the 4 runs its normal service during the day and evening, and this file covers late nights to early mornings only, Monday through Friday. This desk's next traffic file reads the MTA's Monday-morning service status.
