At 46 St, toward Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer, between 1:21 am and 1:24 am. The schedule called for a train every 19 min.
Line
E train
Station
46 St (station G18)
Direction
toward Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer
Train before
train 1E 0037+ WTC/P-A, passed 1:21:39 am
Train after
train 1E 0049+ WTC/P-A, passed 1:24:39 am
Gap
3 min (180 s)
Scheduled gap
19 min
Collector
running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at 46 St toward Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer. The two trains either side of the bunch are labeled.
What the MTA feed said
The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed 46 St when its next stop moves past it.
Snapshot
Train 1E 0037+ WTC/P-A (before)
Train 1E 0049+ WTC/P-A (after)
1:20:09 am
next stop 46 St
next stop Steinway St
1:21:09 am
next stop 46 St
next stop Steinway St
1:22:09 am
next stop Northern Blvd
next stop 46 St
1:23:09 am
next stop Northern Blvd
next stop 46 St
1:24:09 am
next stop 65 St
next stop 46 St
1:25:09 am
next stop Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av
next stop Northern Blvd
1:26:09 am
next stop Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av
next stop Northern Blvd
Showing 7 of 7 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-e-bunch-91479.json.
Check it yourself
Scheduled times come from the MTA's supplemented GTFS schedule for Sat Oct 10. Positions come from the MTA feed, polled once a minute.
The raw records above are exactly what MTA's servers returned. How the numbers are worked out.