Overview
- The overhaul connects Staten Island’s St. George route to Brooklyn with service terminating at Wall Street, with changes taking effect Dec. 8.
- Soundview and Rockaway are combined into one continuous route, creating an uninterrupted ride from the Rockaways to Throgs Neck in roughly two hours.
- The East River line adopts peak-period skip-stop service, with midday weekday and winter-weekend local trips preserving all-stop connectivity.
- South Brooklyn service shifts north to add East 34th Street, with regular Sunset Park and Bay Ridge stops removed and a weekend pilot slated for summer 2026 to test their return.
- Two new landings are planned at East Harlem’s 125th Street and at the MADE/Bush Terminal campus in Sunset Park, alongside an East 34th Street expansion, as NYCEDC cites about 15,000 public comments, a projected one million more riders over two years, and a current per-rider subsidy of $8.33 expected to decline.