The L's cross-borough service is set to go poof at 11:30 p.m. again, but straphangers on the train of Luuuuuuuuuurve aren't the only ones set to pen some angry tweets this weekend. And they won't even get cheap UberPOOL rides! It's always a good idea to live off a subway that's earned its place as a media darling.
Here's what's on tap this weekend:
1 trains will run express between 96th Street and 145th Street on the Van Cortlandt Park-242nd Street track, starting at 11:45 p.m. on Friday and ending at 5 a.m. on Monday. The 3 will skip Rockaway Avenue and Van Siclen Avenue, with that change in place at all times until late September 2015.
4 trains will also skip Rockaway and Van Siclen Avenues in both directions, at all times until late September 2015. Woodlawn-bound 4 trains will make express stops between Grand Central-42nd Street and 125th Street, starting at 11:45 p.m. on Friday and ending at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, and again from 11:45 p.m. Sunday until 5 a.m. Monday. During that same period, Crown Heights-Utica Avenue bound 4 trains will make express stops between Grand Central-42nd Street and 14th Street-Union Square.
5 trains will not run in either direction between Eastchester-Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street, starting at 11:45 p.m. on Friday and running until 5 a.m. on Monday. Trains will run every 20 minutes between Eastchester-Dyre Avenue and Bowling Green during this time. 6 trains will make express stops between Grand Central-42nd Street and 125th Street on the Pelham Bay Park-bound track, and Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall bound trains will run express between Grand Central-42nd Street and 14th Street-Union Square; these changes are in effect from 11:45 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. on Monday.
Flushing-Main Street bound 7 trains will make express stops between Queensboro Plaza and Mets-Willets Point, starting at 11:45 p.m. on Friday and ending at 5 a.m. on Monday.
A trains will not run between Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard and Rockaway boulevard in either direction. Howard Beach/Far Rockaway-bound A trains will also skip 88th Street. These changes are in effect from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. C trains will make express stops between 59th Street Columbus Circle and Canal Street on the Euclid Avenue bound track, from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
D trains make express stops between Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center and 36th Street on the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue bound track, from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 6:30 a.m. Sunday, and again from 11:45 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. on Monday.
E trains run express on the Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer bound track, from Queens Plaza to Roosevelt Avenue; that change is in place from 12:15 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and again from 12:15 a.m. to 5 a.m. on Monday. From 12:30 a.m. Saturday to 5:00 a.m. Monday, trains on that track will run local from Roosevelt Avenue to Forest Hills-71st Avenue. And on the WTC-bound track, E trains run express from 34th Street Penn Station to Canal Street, starting at 11:45 p.m. on Friday and ending at 5 a.m. on Monday.
The F will run local from Roosevelt Avenue to Forest Hills-71st Avenue on the Jamaica-179th Street bound track, and Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue bound F trains will run local from Forest Hills-71st Avenue to 21st Street-Queensbridge. That change takes place from 12:30 a.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Monday. Jamaica-179th Street bound F trains will also reroute along the M line from 47-50th Streets/Rockefeller Center to Roosevelt Avenue, from 9:45 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. on Monday.
L trains will not run between 8th Avenue and Lorimer Street, starting at 11:30 p.m. on Friday and ending at 5 a.m. on Monday.
The M will extend service to the 57th Street F station from 6:30 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday.
N trains will make express stops on the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue bound track, from Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center to 36th Street. That service change runs from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 6:30 a.m. Sunday, and again from 11:45 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. on Monday.
Forest Hills-71st Avenue-bound R trains will make express stops between Queens Plaza and Forest Hills-71st Avenue from 6:30 a.m. to midnight on Saturday and Sunday. Bay Ridge-95th Street bound R trains will make express tops between Atlantic Avneue-Barclays Center to 36th Street from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.