New York City’s largest public transit union, Transport Workers Union Local 100, unveiled a memorial Thursday dedicated to the more than 100 transportation workers who died from COVID-19. The tribute at their Brooklyn headquarters consists of a painting of transit workers and a map listing the 110 union members who succumbed to the virus honors the service of those who kept the Big Apple moving, according to the labor group’s leader. “Transit workers truly gave new meaning to the words ‘essential worker’ during this pandemic,” said Local 100 President Tony Utano. “Our city, our union, can survive with empty office buildings, we can survive with shuttered restaurants and bars, we can live with government by Zoom. But we can’t survive without our public transit systems and our nation’s…
Clark Street station to close for elevator repairs starting next month
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced Friday that the Clark Street station will officially close for elevator repairs on Nov. 3 — and it’s expected to remain closed until work is finished next spring. Trains in both directions will skip the stop for the duration, according to the agency, which recommends that riders who would usually use the station, which serves the 2/3 lines, instead use the nearby High Street or Borough Hall-Court street stations. Both are accessible from Clark Street via the B25 bus. The station’s upper level will remain open so customers can still access businesses located there. The Borough Hall subway station elevator at Cadman Plaza.Photo by Kevin Duggan All three infamous elevators at Clark Street are being replaced…
New high-tech subway cars arrive in Brooklyn
The first five subway cars in the new R211 fleet were unveiled on Thursday at the rail interchange and freight yard at 39th Street and First Avenue on the Brooklyn waterfront. These new cars, manufactured by Kawasaki, are part of an initiative to expand the use of CBTC (communication-based train control) technology. Using this technology, … The post New high-tech subway cars arrive in Brooklyn appeared first on Brooklyn Eagle.
MTA eyes more developer incentives for accessibility upgrades
State transit and city planning gurus want to expand incentives for private developers to fund accessibility improvements for Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway and railroad stations around the Five Boroughs. The inter-agency partnership dubbed “Elevate Transit: Zoning for Accessibility” will boost the MTA’s effort to make all of its 472 stations more accessible, according to the agency’s head of construction. “Zoning for Accessibility builds on the MTA’s historic $5.2 billion commitments to accessibility projects by partnering with private developers to help make stations Americans with Disabilities Act accessible — and to deliver them faster and cheaper than ever before,” said the Authority’s…
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Crown Heights subway stations officially renamed for Medgar Evers
City transit officials have officially renamed two Crown Heights subway stations after civil rights icon Medgar Evers and the nearby CUNY college campus bearing the anti-segregationist’s name. Franklin Avenue station along Eastern Parkway will now be known as “Franklin Avenue-Medgar Evers College” station, while President Street station along Nostrand Avenue will henceforth don signs reading “President Street-Medgar Evers College.” The new signage marks a rare name change within the 472-station subway system, and makes the two train depots among the few bearing a person’s first and last name, said one city transportation honcho. “You don’t just go around renaming subway stations every day or it loses what’s important about it,” New York City Transit President Sarah Feinberg said on…
FYI: subway weekend service changes (1/11)
10 lines are affected.
FYI: subway weekend service changes (1/4)
Affected lines: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, A, D, E, F, G, J, M.
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Nearby
The only subway service change affecting service at local stations this weekend is that, from 10:45 PM this Friday, December 28 to 5:00 AM Monday, December 31 there will be no Manhattan bound service from York Street in DUMBO, as F trains will be diverted to the A line between Jay Street-MetroTech to West 4th Street. To get to LES stops on the F, take a Manhattan bound A or F from Jay or High Street to West 4th and change for a Brooklyn bound F…
FYI: subway weekend service changes (12/28)
The C, E, F, J, and M lines are all affected.
Subway Service Alerts: Brooklyn Heights and Vicinity
This coming weekend–from 11:45 p.m Friday, July 18 to 5:00 a.m. Monday, July 21, Brooklyn bound F trains will be diverted to the A/C line from West 4th Street in Manhattan to Jay Street-MetroTech, so no service from Manhattan to York Street in DUMBO. If that’s your destination, you can either get off at High Street and walk down the hill, or ride to Jay Street and change there for a Manhattan bound F back to York. To get to Brooklyn from the Lower East Side stops on the F, take an uptown F to West 4th and change for a Brooklyn bound train there. The following week (Monday, July 21 to Friday, July 25) there are no planned cancellations, route diversions, or station …