Tuesday Midday on the Subway: J Trains Run Local Between Marcy Avenue and Myrtle Avenue, 10 to 3
The switch work at Marcy Avenue is not only a weekend story. On Tuesday through Friday this week, the J runs local in the middle of the day — the hours when the errand, the appointment and the shift change ride.
Midday J riders in Williamsburg and Bushwick should budget extra time on Tuesday. Under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Marcy Avenue switch program, J trains run local between Marcy Avenue and Myrtle Avenue-Broadway from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays through Fridays in the week of November 10 — the same pattern the program runs in its other work weeks, as reported from the MTA's plan this run.
The work underneath the pattern is switch replacement at and around Marcy Avenue, where the MTA says the switches have reached the end of their useful life — reported as 29-year-old equipment. It is the same program that has taken J and M service out of Manhattan on five fall weekends: on those weekends J trains run only between Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer and Myrtle Avenue, M trains run in two sections every 20 minutes, and every J and M train at Myrtle Avenue boards from the Manhattan-bound platform.
For Tuesday itself, the practical read is narrow and dated: the local pattern is a midday window, not an all-day change, and it ends at 3 p.m., before the evening rush. Riders making a timed midday connection across the Williamsburg Bridge corridor are the ones who will feel it; morning and evening J service is not part of this item. The desk will re-check the pattern each morning this week rather than treating today's file as the week's last word.
