Passengers evacuated from subway after watermain break halts service on B and C trains

Rescue crews evacuated rider from astatine slightest 1 stranded subway bid Wednesday day aft a watermain interruption connected the Upper West Side brought work successful the MTA B and C subway  trains to a halt and severely curtailed work connected some the A and D lines.

Officials said nary injuries were reported, but firefighters were dispatched to subway tracks beneath Central Park West conscionable a fewer blocks southbound of the W. 103rd Street presumption to assistance evacuate a stranded C train, an FDNY spokesperson told the Daily News.

A interruption successful a metropolis h2o main determination adjacent W. 103rd St. and Central Park West was archetypal reported astir 1:39 p.m., sources told The News, flooding a information of the line. It was not instantly wide if h2o had reached the 3rd rail.

Service connected the B and C trains was suspended successful some directions Wednesday day arsenic crews worked to power the flood. Service connected the A and D lines was besides importantly disrupted, with each enactment divided into 2 sections.

A trains were moving betwixt Inwood-207 St. and 125 St. successful bluish Manhattan and betwixt Far Rockaway successful Queens and Chambers Street successful Lower Manhattan. The A was making each section stops successful Brooklyn.

The D bid was likewise divided successful two, operating betwixt Norwood-205 St. and 161 St.-Yankee Stadium successful the Bronx, and betwixt Coney Island and 34th St. – Herald Square.

Some A trains were operating connected the F and Q lines arsenic well.

Straphangers needing to question done Manhattan’s Upper West Side were advised to instrumentality the No. 2 oregon 3 trains.