{"id":137825,"date":"2026-02-18T20:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137825\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:07:09","slug":"ice-chunk-falls-on-tracks-stalling-g-train-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137825\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice chunk falls on tracks, stalling G train service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thaw from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">weeks of subzero temperatures<\/a> froze travel between Brooklyn and Queens Wednesday morning, after a chunk of ice fell from the ceiling above the southbound tube of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/maps\/subway-line-maps\/g-line\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the subway\u2019s Crosstown Line<\/a>, tripping the emergency brakes on a G train and partially suspending service for nearly an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Sources tell the Daily News that the ice fell onto the tracks just north of the Metropolitan Ave. Station in Williamsburg sometime before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterward, a southbound G train entering the station hit the frozen obstruction, tripping the train\u2019s emergency brake.<\/p>\n<p>Upon inspection, the train continued onward, undamaged, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>But Crosstown Line service remained partially suspended until shortly before 11:20 a.m., with some Queens-bound trains turning around at Bedford-Nostrand until work crews cleared the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The thaw from weeks of subzero temperatures froze travel between Brooklyn and Queens Wednesday morning, after a chunk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,122,124,123,608],"class_list":["post-137825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}