BY COLIN MIXSON
Flatbush Avenue–bound 2 and
5 trains will bypass Prospect-
Lefferts Gardens’s Winthrop
Street station for four months,
according to Metropolitan
Transportation Authority shot
callers, and locals who rely on
the hub are not happy about it.
“That’s not good,” said
Haywood Hogans, who commutes
from the station to her
job. “That’s going to make the
commute very bad for a lot of
people.”
Authority bigwigs suspended
service on March 18
in order to make repairs at
SERVICE INTERRUPTED: Flatbush Avenue–bound 2 and 5 trains will bypass Winthrop Street station for four
months. Photo by Colin Mixson
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the station, but a rep for the
state-run agency did not immediately
reply when asked
what specifi c fi xes will be
made, or how much the job
will cost.
The station on Nostrand
Avenue is the closest hub for
patients travelling to local
health-care facilities Kings
County Hospital and SUNY
Downstate Medical Center,
and it is also used by many
parents, teachers, and young
students of nearby schools MS
2 and PS 92.
Transit-agency workers
posted fl iers throughout the
station alerting straphangers
to the looming service change,
but the news still came as a
surprise to some commuters
when this newspaper visited
the hub on March 14.
“I use this stop every single
day, and this is the fi rst time
I’m hearing about it,” said Andrea
Edwards, who attends a
church near Winthrop Street
station.
Commuters who typically
catch 2 and 5 trains heading
towards Flatbush Avenue at
the station can instead catch
an Emmons Avenue–bound
B44 bus during the service
suspension. And Flatbush
Aveune–bound riders looking
to hop off at Winthrop Street
can take subways one stop further
to Church Avenue, and
double back aboard a Manhattan
bound train, which will
continue to stop at the hub
throughout the repairs.
No stop at
Winthrop
Flatbush Ave.–bound 2, 5 trains
bypassing Winthrop St. station
for four months due to repairs