No L Trains After Midnight For Most Of BK For 9 Weeks, MTA Says

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Some Brooklynites will get a taste of what could have been had the L train shutdown never been called off over the next few months. The MTA has announced that the next phase of its ongoing repairs to the L train will mean shutting down all service after midnight to a large swath of Brooklyn stops.

The service change, part of the 15-month renovation to the subway line, is scheduled to start early next week and will last for a total of five weeks and nine weekends over the next few months, the transit authority said in its most recent L train newsletter.

For each of those time periods, which extend into January, there will be no trains between the Lorimer Street and Broadway Junction stations from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. so that workers can have full access to the stations to make planned upgrades.

"This work was always part of the L project, and we’re able to set the dates for it now based on our progress and other work going on," the MTA said.

During the closures, the L will still run from 8th Avenue in Manhattan to Lorimer Street and will run from Broadway Junction to the Canarsie station every 20 minutes.

The 10 stations in between, though, will only be accessible by buses that will make all L-train station stops between Lorimer and Broadway Junction on weeknights. On weekends it will take riders from Broadway Junction to Rockaway Parkway, Broadway Junction to Myrtle Avenue or Myrtle Avenue to Lorimer Street.

The MTA said the construction during these closures will include reconstructing platform edges and adding boarding areas compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act to the Morgan Avenue, Dekalb Avenue, Halsey Street and Bushwick-Aberdeen stations. The Myrtle Avenue and Wilson Avenue stations will also get power upgrades to their circuit breaker houses and the Wilson Avenue station will get an upgraded track, officials said.

Here is the MTA's full run-down of when the shutdowns will happen:

Weeknights

Tues., July 16 to Fri., July 19
Mon., July 22 to Fri., July 26
Mon., July 29 to Fri., August 2
Mon., September 23 to Fri., September 27
Mon., September 30 to Fri., October 4

Weekends

Fri., July 19 to Sun., July 21
Fri., July 26 to Sun., July 28
Fri., August 2 to Sun., August 4
Fri., September 27 to Sun., September 29
Fri., October 4 to Sun., October 6
Fri., January 3 to Sun., January 5
Fri., January 10 to Sun., January 12
Fri., January 17 to Sun., January 19
Fri., January 24 to Sun., January 26

Check out Patch's Commuter Guide to the L train project for more on how to get around when the trains aren't running, or are running slower than usual, during construction.