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Track work (Source: MTAPhotos/Flickr)Southern Brooklynites are set to have their commutes bungled for the next two weeks, as the B, Q and F lines all see major service suspensions in the area while the MTA replaces a critical track switch at West 8th Street. For two consecutive weeks,
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Avenue U’s N line station. (Source: Google Maps)Early morning straphangers made a gruesome find Saturday after a man hanged himself at Avenue U’s N line subway station in Gravesend. The man was found hanging by a “thick rope” at about 3:35am, police told the Daily News
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Ever wonder how the snow gets cleared out from open-cut subway lines like the N line? Wonder no more. The MTA has released a video showing the MTA’s “snow thrower” train running down the Sea Beach N line, literally vacuuming up the white stuff and shooting it out the
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Photographer: Urquhart. Source: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn CollectionThis July 17, 1914 photo showcases workers lifting sandbags, operating a cement mixer and examining the newly laid tracks. during the construction of the Sea Beach line. The title, “Looking West from 18th Ave. Showing Progress of Construction Work” even gives the viewer
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Source: Lana I.The recent media coverage of the dilapidated N-line subway stops has Assemblyman William Colton demanding that they be repaired before the slotted 2014 date. “They [the staircases] need a significant amount of structural work done and if that doesn’t get done soon we’re going to
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Reader Lana I. sent us the photo above, letting us know that Coney Island-bound N trains on the BMT Sea Beach Line were delayed at around 5:30 p.m. when a rain gutter collapsed and landed on a train car at 18th Avenue. It’s not a “huge deal,
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(From MTA.info)We were recently tipped off that, since at least sometime last week, the stairway that allows you to get from the open cut Sea Beach Line to the elevated West End Line at New Utrecht Avenue-62nd Street has been temporarily closed. It might actually be a good
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As the temperature and humidity continue to creep upwards, here’s something to keep your thoughts cold and crisp. This photo was taken this past winter at the Bay Parkway Station of the N Train, otherwise known as the Sea Beach Line. Before it became part of the New York