AMNY Subway Tracker

Snow did not blanket the city this morning, keeping the commute smooth except for a few bumps.
Trains did not experience any weather-related delays, but mechanical problems slowed lines in Queens during the early part of the morning commute. Switch problems at the 36th Street station in Queens forced E and F trains to run local from Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue to as far as 47th-50th Street/Rockefeller Center Manhattan until about 7:30 a.m.
“It kept stopping between stations,” said Mariana Nika, 22, a Kew Gardens E rider who was running 15 minutes late to her work in Midtown. “But it’s usually like that—maybe it’s just the time I come in.”
A No. 7 train with mechanical problems also held up the commute from Queens to Times Square for about 15 minutes until just after 7 a.m. But riders on that line had other problems to worry about today. Scheduled signal and track upgrades knocked out weekday express until the end of February.
“I hate the 7 train,” said Rosanne Castis, a Flushing resident headed to work in Midtown. “Other than the construction making it local … it wasn’t that bad.”
Many Queens commuters were happy snow storms didn’t add to a commute they expected to be affected by the 7 train work.
“I thought that it would be overcrowded, but it wasn’t,” Roger Rivera said of the E train. “I probably would have left early if it had snowed.”
--with Newsday