{"id":302246,"date":"2026-07-21T22:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302246\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:02:54","slug":"three-major-mta-subway-trains-to-skip-lower-manhattan-for-next-five-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302246\/","title":{"rendered":"Three major MTA subway trains to skip lower Manhattan for next five weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend service on the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 trains will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/article\/service-changes-1-2-3-line-summer-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">skip Lower Manhattan<\/a> for the rest of July and most of August to facilitate the replacement of switch tracks, the MTA announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re replacing antiquated switches to reduce delays, improve service reliability and deliver a smoother ride,\u201d NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Friday evening, and for five consecutive weekends \u2014 from 9:30 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday \u2014 service on the Seventh Avenue Line will bypass southern Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, the No. 1 train will not run south of 14th St., officials said.<\/p>\n<p>No. 2 trains will run only between Eastchester-Dyre Ave. and 34 St-Penn Station, and the No. 3 trains will not run at all.<\/p>\n<p>In Brooklyn, the No. 5 train will make the local stops typically made by the Nos. 2 and 3, and the No. 4 train will replace the No. 3 between Crown Heights-Utica Ave. and New Lots Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Regular weekend service will resume on August 29. Weekday service will be unaffected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weekend service on the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 trains will skip Lower Manhattan for the rest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302247,"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-302246","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\/302246","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=302246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}