Fort Greene residents won a victory in June when NYC Transit reopened a G-train subway entrance at South Portland Ave. According to the NY Times, the entrance has been closed for 20 years. With Fort Greene and nearby areas of Brooklyn quickly changing, local residents sent Transit 350 letters asking that it be reopened, and the agency listened.

Other G riders aren’t so lucky. The Queens Chronicle reported that the G has stopped at Court Square on weekends and nights for months, though it is supposed to travel to 71^st/Continental Ave. at those times. In the MTA’s 2005 budget, it cut most of this Queens portion of the route. An outcry forced a restoration, at least on paper. Riders now wonder whether the MTA is implementing its original plan but claiming it as temporary. The MTA says the closure is due to station rehabilitation work, and that service will be out for “quite a while.”

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