{"id":145429,"date":"2026-02-25T23:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145429\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:37:28","slug":"stuck-nyc-subways-at-canal-st-snarl-late-morning-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145429\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck NYC subways at Canal St. snarl late-morning commute"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pair of uptown trains<\/a> got stuck at the Canal St. N, Q, R, W station Wednesday morning, jamming up service<\/a> for nearly two hours.<\/p>\n

Sources tell the Daily News that the mess began as an uptown Q train\u2019s emergency brakes activated while it was pulling out of the Chinatown station shortly before 9:20 a.m.<\/p>\n

The train crew tried to recharge the air-brake system in order to release the emergency brake, but was unable to, ultimately finding a ruptured line in one of the compressed-air systems.<\/p>\n

The MTA began to reroute N and Q service through the Montague St. tunnel and up the R line \u2014 until an uptown R train tripped its emergency brakes near the Canal St. platform on a faulty signal in a seemingly unrelated incident.<\/p>\n

With no way uptown, N, Q, R and W trains were ordered to hold at subway stations until one of the two affected tracks could be cleared.<\/p>\n

The stopped R train was ultimately able to recharge its brakes and proceed uptown, a source told The News, clearing a path for uptown service on all four lines.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, according to a passenger on the stranded Q train, the train crew began evacuating passengers back onto the platform through the two rear cars around 9:50 a.m.<\/p>\n

The passenger, who told The News he\u2019d been riding in the train\u2019s first car when the brakes engaged, estimated it took him another 25 minutes to get off the train.<\/p>\n

An MTA spokesman told The News that the train car with the damaged brake line has been removed from service on that Q train, and the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n

Service along the N and Q lines through Canal St. resumed at 10:55 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of uptown trains got stuck at the Canal St. N, Q, R, W station Wednesday morning,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,10,12,63,608],"class_list":["post-145429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145429","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=145429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}