{"id":213200,"date":"2026-04-28T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213200\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:07:11","slug":"mta-g-train-subway-service-may-shut-down-summer-weekends-angering-brooklyn-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213200\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA G train subway service may shut down summer weekends, angering Brooklyn residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greenpoint residents and elected representatives voiced their ire Tuesday over an MTA proposal that would suspend service to the neighborhood on the G train<\/a> for nine weekends over the summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe G train is the lifeline for our community,\u201d Councilmember Lincoln Restler, a Democrat whose district includes Greenpoint, told reporters on Tuesday. \u201cThis is the one train that we have to get in and out of our neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Restler and others who represent Kings County\u2019s northernmost neighborhood say there were briefed by the MTA on plans to shut down service between the Bedford-Nostrand Ave. Station and the Court Square Station for three weekends in June, two weekends in August, one weekend in September and three weekends in December.<\/p>\n

The MTA hasn\u2019t formally announced when the outages will take place \u2014 a source at the transit agency told the Daily News the dates shared with officials are still proposals, and not yet set in stone.<\/p>\n

But MTA officials say the work is a necessity, as crews working on signal improvements have discovered water leaking into the Greenpoint Tube \u2014 the tunnel that brings the G train under the Newtown Creek.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt turns out that tunnel under Newtown Creek between Greenpoint and Long Island City needs a lot more work than was originally thought,\u201d MTA chairman Janno Lieber told reporters Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the reason why we are having to do extra weekend shutdowns,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the reality of the generations of neglect of the MTA\u2019s core infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople in Greenpoint, Brooklyn rally against proposed G train subway shutdowns on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (John McCarten \/ NYC Council Media Unit)<\/p>\n

But for the residents and business-owners, the possibility of another set of G train outage evoked frustration after two years of service suspensions<\/a> while crews worked to upgrade the signaling system<\/a> on the Crosstown Line.<\/p>\n

Portions of the line were shut down for ten weeks during the summer of 2024, and the section of the line north of the Bedford-Nostrand Station faced summer shutdowns again<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

The signal upgrade work is still ongoing \u2014 the MTA recently advised riders to expect service disruptions during weeknight service on the G for the next two weeks<\/a> while resignaling work continues.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single year, the MTA is doing track work in the summer \u2014 every single weekend,\u201d Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso said to reporters Tuesday outside the Nassau Ave. station in Greenpoint.<\/p>\n

Restler expressed concern over the impact a third summer of service disruptions would have on local businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen G train is shut down, nobody comes to Greenpoint,\u201d the councilmember said. \u201cThey just won\u2019t make the trip \u2014 they\u2019re not getting on a shuttle bus that\u2019s going to be stuck in traffic, that runs too infrequently, that\u2019s not a reliable way to get around.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople in Greenpoint, Brooklyn rally against proposed G train subway shutdowns on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (John McCarten \/ NYC Council Media Unit)<\/p>\n

Rachel Despeaux, owner of Awoke Vintage, a clothing store with two neighborhood storefronts, said the MTA was treating her \u201cas a noone and a nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have retail in New York, you know that you\u2019re so lucky to break even on the weekdays and to actually make money on the weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have already weathered the storm of a ten-week shutdown from the MTA,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we were promised that that was going to be the end of it, assured that our businesses were a priority and that\u2019s why this work was being done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat, obviously, was not the case,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Mami Cho-Oyagi, a Greenpoint resident who relies on the train to get to work in Bedford-Stuyvesant, found out about the proposed outages as she was exiting the station at Nassau Ave.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow are we going to live?\u201d she asked \u00a0 \u201cCan we live by bus? No.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to affect our lives greatly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenpoint residents and elected representatives voiced their ire Tuesday over an MTA proposal that would suspend service to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,608],"class_list":["post-213200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","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-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213200","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=213200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}