Months Of Subway Service Changes Come To Astoria's N And W Lines

ASTORIA, QUEENS — Two subway lines in northwest Queens won’t run as usual during the next couple of months, according to the MTA.

N and W train service will be disrupted in Queens throughout weekdays and weekends over the next eight weeks, an agency spokesperson told Patch.

The service changes are in order to accommodate “track panel replacement work” on the Astoria line, a spokesperson said, which the transportation agency has been working on since 2017.

For eight weeks, from Aug. 23 through Oct. 15, Manhattan-bound N trains will run express on Monday through Friday from 9:45 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. between Astoria Boulevard and Queensboro Plaza.

Those same service changes will also affect N trains from 3:45 a.m. on Saturdays until 10 p.m. on Sundays during five upcoming weekends, from Sep. 11 through Oct. 10.

Trains on the W line also won’t run as usual on weekdays throughout the next eight weeks.

W trains, which don’t run on weekends, won’t run in Queens midday while N train service is disrupted, and will instead run via the Q train from 57-Street-7Avenue to 96 Street.

An MTA spokesperson pointed out to Patch that W service will operate normally during morning and afternoon rush hours, as well as during the evening.