The G was closed on 14 of the first 33 weekends of 2026, up from 5 weekends in all of 2023
Weekends on which at least one Crosstown segment was shut, January 2023 to August 2026, detected from entries at the ten stations only the G serves. A station counts as closed when its entries fall below 15% of its median for that day of the week. Dashed cells are closures the MTA has announced for the rest of 2026.
- Court Sq to Bedford-Nostrand closed
- Court Sq to Nassau Av closed
- Bedford-Nostrand to Hoyt-Schermerhorn closed
- Announced for the rest of 2026
- Full G service
2026 is the worst year yet, and the announced schedule makes it worse. Fourteen of the first 33 weekends had a segment shut (42%), against 10 weekends in all of 2025 and 5 in 2023, before the signal project began. Add the five closures the MTA has announced for Aug 22, Sep 12, and the first three weekends of December and 2026 ends with 19 of 52 weekends lost, 37% of the year.
The north end takes most of it. Of the 34 closure weekends since the summer 2024 shutdown began, 25 shut some or all of the Court Sq to Bedford-Nostrand segment, which cuts Greenpoint and Williamsburg off from the rest of the line. March 2026 alone had five consecutive north-segment weekends.
Method. The MTA publishes hourly entries for every station complex. For each of the ten stations served only by the G (21 St, Greenpoint Av, Nassau Av, Broadway, Flushing Av, Myrtle-Willoughby Avs, Bedford-Nostrand Avs, Classon Av, Clinton-Washington Avs, Fulton St), daily entries were compared with that station's median for the same day of the week in the same year. A station is counted as closed on a day when its entries fall below 15% of that median; on closure days the count is typically 1 to 40 entries against a median in the thousands. A weekend is counted as a closure when at least two stations were closed on Saturday or Sunday. Holiday weekends dip to 50–65% of median and are not counted.
Segments. "Court Sq to Bedford-Nostrand" means all six north-end stations were dark; "Court Sq to Nassau Av" means only 21 St and Greenpoint Av were, with Nassau Av as the temporary terminal; "Bedford-Nostrand to Hoyt-Schermerhorn" means Classon Av, Clinton-Washington Avs and Fulton St were dark while Bedford-Nostrand served as the terminal. Work between Bergen St and Church Av, where the G shares track and stations with the F, cannot be detected this way, so the count is a floor.
Announced closures are from the MTA's 2026 service-change notices as reported by Streetsblog (Aug 21, 2026): Aug 21–24, Sep 11–14, and the first three weekends of December, all north of Bedford-Nostrand.
Sources: Author's analysis of MTA data via data.ny.gov.