Timetable Test

Long wait · New York · Sat Oct 10

25 min with no N train

At Lexington Av/59 St, toward Coney Island-Stillwell Av, between 7:50 pm and 8:15 pm. The schedule called for a train every 12 min.

Line
N train
Station
Lexington Av/59 St (station R11)
Direction
toward Coney Island-Stillwell Av
Train before
train 1N 1936 DIT/STL, passed 7:50:38 pm
Train after
train 1N 2000 DIT/STL, passed 8:15:39 pm
Gap
25 min (1501 s)
Scheduled gap
12 min
Collector
missed some minutes nearby, see the record

Scheduled against seen

Each tick is a train at Lexington Av/59 St toward Coney Island-Stillwell Av. The two trains either side of the gap are labeled.

ScheduledSeen1N 1936 DI1N 2000 DI7:15 pm7:30 pm7:45 pm8:00 pm8:15 pm8:30 pm8:45 pm25 min gap

What the MTA feed said

The MTA feed reports each train's next stop. A train has passed Lexington Av/59 St when its next stop moves past it.

SnapshotTrain 1N 1936 DIT/STL (before)Train 1N 2000 DIT/STL (after)
7:49:08 pmnext stop R60not in service yet
7:51:08 pmnext stop 5 Av/59 Stnot in service yet
7:53:08 pmnext stop 57 St-7 Avnot in service yet
7:55:08 pmnext stop 49 Stnot in service yet
7:57:08 pmnext stop Times Sq-42 Stnot in service yet
7:59:08 pmnext stop 34 St-Herald Sqnot in service yet
8:01:08 pmnext stop 23 Stnext stop Astoria-Ditmars Blvd
8:03:08 pmnext stop 14 St-Union Sqnext stop Astoria Blvd
8:05:08 pmnext stop Prince Stnext stop 30 Av
8:07:08 pmnext stop Prince Stnext stop 36 Av
8:09:08 pmnext stop Canal Stnext stop 39 Av-Dutch Kills
8:11:08 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop Queensboro Plaza
8:13:08 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop R60
8:15:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop Lexington Av/59 St
8:17:09 pmnext stop Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctrnext stop 5 Av/59 St

Showing 15 of 29 snapshots in the gap. The full record, every train on the line minute by minute, is in 2026-10-10-n-gap-72939.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.