Lexington Avenue Subway Travels Back To 2006 With Clock Outage: MTA

UPPER EAST SIDE — Ready to say goodbye to 2023 after only weeks into the new year? Do you specifically want to relive the year 2006?

The MTA can help you out with that.

This Sunday, the MTA says all countdown clocks and real-time information on the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 42nd Street Shuttle lines will cease to exist for 12-hours due to planned updates and maintenance.

Clocks will shutter at exactly 12 a.m. and will turn back on at 12 p.m., giving riders a half-day to experience the good old days.

During the outage, customer announcements will still be made to let riders know of service updates, the MTA said.

As a bonus, there's no planned work this weekend that would affect service on the lines that time forgot.

The countdown clocks were first rolled out in 2006 on the L line. Two years later, the digital displays came to the former IRT lines (except the number 7 line).

It wasn't until 11 years later that the MTA installed platform countdown clocks at all of the system's 471 stations.

You can check the subway schedule (yes, the subway does have a schedule) at the MTA's website here.

If you really want to have an old school day, feel free to jot down your train times, or print out the schedule, and leave the smartphone at home.