From there, the J navigates a route of sweeping curves as it wends its way above Broadway, Fulton Street and Jamaica Avenue. The first stop in Brooklyn, Marcy Avenue, is a short walk to legendary steakhouse Peter Luger. Once over the bridge, the J rocks, rattles and raps across a spellbinding urban landscape, mostly untouched by time, through Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill, East New York, Cypress Hills, Richmond Hill and Jamaica. Instead of new signals, the MTA should build a monument to the J So much at this point in the journey is new: World Trade Center towers, the rising Domino Sugar complex in Brooklyn. The eye-popping vista takes in lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and the harbor almost to the sea. The Queens-bound J hits daylight once it leaves Essex Street and reminds you of how vast the Lower East Side is before climbing over the East River on the Williamsburg Bridge. A charming anachronism, it also reveals a “lost” New York - not only because part of its elevated section in Brooklyn was built in 1885 and is believed to be the oldest “el” in the world. The J serves New Yorkers from neighborhoods that are nearly as diverse as those along the fabled “Orient Express” No. Its leisurely pace is actually part of the pleasure.
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Even a signal upgrade would 1) screw up the line for years and 2) eventually, some day, speed up a train that doesn’t need speeding up. It’s no hipster hangout like the L through Williamsburg.Įven its sole claim to coolness is a myth: Rap impresario Jay-Z didn’t name himself after the line, as is often said, although he did use the Myrtle Avenue station as a kid. 7 Hudson Yards extension or the Second Avenue Q. It has no speedy sections like the stations-skipping A in Manhattan or the D in The Bronx. The J isn’t the worst-performing train - its average “on-time” rate as of 2017 was 64 percent, according to the MTA, on par with many other under-performing lines - but it’s one of the least appreciated. A fatal 1995 J train crash on the Williamsburg Bridge prompted the MTA to reduce top speeds on all lines and to tinker with signals in a way that slowed up the works for good.
The diss seems like punishment for the fact the J was largely responsible for today’s subway sluggishness. The agency said it must “prioritize” - and the 190,000 daily riders of the J and its express cousin, the Z, are the fewest of any major line in the system.
As The Post reported recently, the MTA has left the J out of a proposed $37 billion signal upgrade. It rubs shoulders with the “real” New York over more miles than any of its more honored rivals.Īnd yet, it gets no respect. But the mostly elevated, century-old right-of-way affords unrivaled views and reaches under-appreciated but compelling destinations. It might sound nuts to New Yorkers who ride the J train more out of necessity than for fun, as I do. The city’s least-loved subway line happens to be my favorite. Merger whispers between Cushman and Newmark reignite at REBNY Galaīig names feast on small plates at revamped REBNY gala You wanna pizza me? The surprising winner of the latest New York-style feud Mayor Eric Adams is even more anti-‘gentrification’ than de Blasio Brooklyn's Domino Sugar plant to be transformed into one-of-a-kind office building
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