MTA Set For Repair Work To Columbus Circle Tracks: What To Know

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The Metropolitan Transit Authority will perform repair work in November on the 6th Avenue B and D express lines between 59th Street-Columbus Circle and 42nd Street-Bryant Park.

Track replacement on the lines was originally scheduled for Spring 2020, but was pushed back to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Because of the extended window of time, MTA crews will do smaller improvement work on the Upper West Side track. Such as adding new plates, rails and blocks between the Columbus Circle station and the West 53rd Street station.

The MTA has tried to utilize the ongoing period of low subway ridership due to the pandemic to complete as much repair work as possible. The Columbus Circle station track's repair work will get done during the subway shut down between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.

There are two weekends you should know about where service on C and D trains is slightly changed due to the track work.

During the weekends of Nov. 13 through 16 and Nov. 20 to 23, from 9:30 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, D trains will run via the C line between 135th Street and West 4th Street and via the F line between West 4th Street and Church Avenue.

Northbound C trains will run express between Canal Street and 145th Street.