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Uptown 1 train riders won’t be able to stop at 50th or 79th Street for most of March due to scheduled structural maintenance at the stations, the MTA has announced. Downtown travel will not be affected.
Riders who would ordinarily use the 50th St. station can instead get on or off the trains at Times Square-42th St. or Columbus Circle-59th Street. And instead of the 79th St. station, riders should use either the 72nd or 86th Street stop, the MTA advised. The interruption will begin March 4 and last through late March. No firm end date has yet been scheduled. It will be in effect 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Work slated for the stations encompasses structural maintenance on the uptown platforms including new tactile strips, repairs to the structural platform columns, water mitigation, and historic preservation efforts, according to MTA spokesperson Meghan Keegan.
The interruption will not affect riders with disabilities who rely on accessible subway stations as neither of the two affected stations are ADA-accessible. (The downtown side of the 50th Street station is accessible for the C and E lines.)
To check for planned service changes, riders can visit the MTA’s website where changes are announced.
Downtown travel will not be affected?
79th street station is currently closed to downtown riders too. Is that expected to end soon?
It was supposed to be done in February but here we are on 2/29 and the MTA website says it’s still closed. I took the uptown 1 at 79th St a few days ago and the work doesn’t look nearly completed.
79th downtown is open as of this morning March 1st, right on time.