Photo Courtesy of March Hermann/MTA
Station improvement work will affect M train service in June.
By Forum Staff
Hills/Jamaica-bound platform will be closed between Monday, June 5 at 4:45 a.m. and Monday, June 12 at 5 a.m. while crews perform station improvements.
Crews will be repainting station surfaces, performing lead-based paint abatement, renovating ADA-compliant platforms, repairing structural steel and tiles, performing surface cleaning and painting, drainage work and replacing doors, frames and gates. Customer upgrades including new communication and public safety systems will also be installed.
Forest Hills-bound M/R trains and late night local Jamaica-bound E/F trains will skip 36th Street. Customers should consider using the Queens Plaza, Steinway Street, or the 39th Av-Dutch Kills N stations.
Courtesy of MTA
For real-time service updates and information, customers can also use the Live Subway Map.
For service to the 36th Street station, customers should take the M/R (days) or local E/F (nights) to Steinway Street and transfer to a Manhattan-bound train. For service from this station, customers can take the M/R (days) to Queens Plaza and transfer to a Forest Hills or Jamaica-bound train. Overnight, customers can take the train to Queens Plaza or F train to 21st Street-Queensbridge for Jamaica-bound service.
From Friday, June 9 at 9:45 p.m. to Monday, June 12 at 5 a.m., there will be no Jamaica-bound service at Queens Plaza. Customers should transfer at 21st Street-Queensbridge station.
Customers are encouraged to sign up for the MTA Weekender, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday to inform customers of weekend service changes throughout the transit system.
For real-time service updates and information, customers can also use the Live Subway Map, which shows the real-time position of trains, planned service changes at any given time, and highlights accessible stations.
