No Subway M Line Weekend Service In Brooklyn And Queens Through June

NEW YORK, NY — Brooklyn and parts of Queens, kiss any reliance you once had on the M train goodbye. Starting Friday, the M train will not be in service between Queens and Brooklyn for most weekends until the end of June in order for the MTA to conduct track repairs.

The M line will be shut down for 11 weekends between the Myrtle Avenue-Broadway stop in Brooklyn and the Metropolitan Avenue stop in Queens, the MTA announced. The pause in service will occur from 11 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday almost every weekend until June 26. For the latest subway service announcements, subscribe to your local neighborhood Patch in NYC for email newsletters and news alerts that go to your phone.

You can take the free shuttle bus as an alternate service, which will make all subway stops between Myrtle Avenue-Broadway and Metropolitan. Service will run as normal on weekends between Myrtle Avenue-Broadway and Essex Street in the Lower East Side, Manhattan.

The weekends are just the tip of the iceberg. Once the weekend halt in service is over, the M line from Myrtle and Metropolitan will be suspended for two months starting in July. After those two months, M shuttle service will run between Myrtle and Metropolitan for an additional eight months.

The MTA is tearing down and rebuilding the "Bushwick Cut," a portion of tracks that connects the M to the J and Z lines, to "ensure that a two decades-old deteriorating overpass remains safe for travel," the agency said. The MTA said the work will take at least ten months.

Here are the weekends the M line will be shut down from Friday at 11 p.m. to Monday at 5 a.m.:

March: 4-6, 11-13, 18-20

April: 8-10, 22-24, 29

May: 1, 13-15, 20-22

June: 3-5, 17-19, 24-26

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