At Queensboro Plaza, toward Astoria-Ditmars Blvd, between 9:53 pm and 9:54 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.
Line
N train
Station
Queensboro Plaza (station R09)
Direction
toward Astoria-Ditmars Blvd
Train before
train EN 2041 STL/DIT, passed 9:53:39 pm
Train after
train 1N 2047 STL/DIT, passed 9:54:39 pm
Gap
1 min (60 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
running the whole time
Scheduled against seen
Each tick is a train at Queensboro Plaza toward Astoria-Ditmars Blvd. 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 Queensboro Plaza when its next stop moves past it.
Snapshot
Train EN 2041 STL/DIT (before)
Train 1N 2047 STL/DIT (after)
9:52:09 pm
next stop R60
next stop R60
9:53:09 pm
next stop Queensboro Plaza
next stop Queensboro Plaza
9:54:09 pm
next stop Astoria Blvd
next stop Queensboro Plaza
9:55:09 pm
next stop Astoria Blvd
next stop 39 Av-Dutch Kills
9:56:09 pm
next stop Astoria Blvd
next stop 39 Av-Dutch Kills
Showing 5 of 5 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-n-bunch-78879.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.