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Tunnels flooded by Hurricane Sandy. The 14th Street Tunnel shutdown (also referred to as the L Project, the L train shutdown, or the Canarsie Tunnel reconstruction) was the partial closure and reconstruction of the New York City Subway's 14th Street Tunnel that took place from April 2019 to April 2020.
The L was originally given the LL designation when letters were assigned to the BMT division. From 1928 to 1967, the same service was assigned the BMT number 16.. In 1924, part of the eventual 14th Street–Canarsie Line opened, called the "14th Street–Eastern District Line" (commonly the "14th Street–Eastern Line"), and was given the number 16.
The L fully began automatic train operation in early 2012. [58] The CBTC installation increased the train capacity on the line from 20 trains per hour (tph) to 24 tph, [59] as well as permitted the installation of countdown clocks, which show the amount of time until the next train arrives. [55]
The easternmost platform was closed to train service in September 2003 and has been demolished except for a small portion that remained intact. [11] The other structures relating to that platform, including the last remnants of the Fulton el, as well as the portion of the el over Snediker Avenue were demolished between September 2003 and ...
The New Lots Avenue station is an elevated station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of New Lots and Van Sinderen Avenues at the border of Brownsville and East New York, Brooklyn, [4] it is served by the L train at all times.
Brooklyn straphangers were blindsided by R train closures over the weekend — even as some were relieved to avoid the Big Apple’s violence-plagued underground. The R was suspended from Friday...
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The First Avenue station is a station on the BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway.Located at the intersection of First Avenue and East 14th Street at the border of Stuyvesant Park, Stuyvesant Town, and the East Village in Manhattan, [3] it is served by the L train at all times.