Mets #7 express subway service

On Jul 11, 4:09 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> The MTA announced it will run express trains at night on the #7 line
> to take fans back to Manhattan after Mets Games.

Hasn't that always been the case?

On Jul 11, 4:35 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
> On Jul 11, 4:09 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
> > The MTA announced it will run express trains at night on the #7 line
> > to take fans back to Manhattan after Mets Games.
>
> Hasn't that always been the case?

Apparently not.

On Jul 11, 11:01 pm, Peter Schleifer <pschl...@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:35:25 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
>
> <gramma...@> wrote:
> >On Jul 11, 4:09 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> >> The MTA announced it will run express trains at night on the #7 line
> >> to take fans back to Manhattan after Mets Games.
>
> >Hasn't that always been the case?
>
> I don't recall Manhattan-bound express service ever being offered for
> night games. There used to be weekend express service for day games,
> but I haven't seen that for a while.

Well, there certainly was in 1964-65!

And when a game ended at the same time the World's Fair closed (10
pm), it could get a little crowded.

After 9, you could get on the big rides -- Ford, GM, Bell System --
without a line.

On Jul 11, 11:10 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
> On Jul 11, 11:01 pm, Peter Schleifer <pschl...@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:35:25 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
>
> > <gramma...@> wrote:
> > >On Jul 11, 4:09 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> > >> The MTA announced it will run express trains at night on the #7 line
> > >> to take fans back to Manhattan after Mets Games.
>
> > >Hasn't that always been the case?
>
> > I don't recall Manhattan-bound express service ever being offered for
> > night games. There used to be weekend express service for day games,
> > but I haven't seen that for a while.
>
* Well, there certainly was in 1964-65!

It's a world of laughter, a world of tears...

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:06:08 -0700, JohnAnon <JohnAnon@nyc.>
wrote:

>On Jul 11, 11:10 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
>> On Jul 11, 11:01 pm, Peter Schleifer <pschl...@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:35:25 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
>>
>> > <gramma...@> wrote:
>> > >On Jul 11, 4:09 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>> > >> The MTA announced it will run express trains at night on the #7 line
>> > >> to take fans back to Manhattan after Mets Games.
>>
>> > >Hasn't that always been the case?
>>
>> > I don't recall Manhattan-bound express service ever being offered for
>> > night games. There used to be weekend express service for day games,
>> > but I haven't seen that for a while.
>>
>* Well, there certainly was in 1964-65!
>
>It's a world of laughter, a world of tears...

I don't recall much about the Fair, but now you've got that damn song
stuck in my head.

I didn't go to my first Mets game until 1967.

--
Peter Schleifer
"Save me from the people who would save me from myself"

On Jul 12, 8:02 am, Peter Schleifer <pschl...@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:06:08 -0700, JohnAnon <JohnA...@nyc.>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >On Jul 11, 11:10 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
> >> On Jul 11, 11:01 pm, Peter Schleifer <pschl...@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>
> >> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:35:25 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
>
> >> > <gramma...@> wrote:
> >> > >On Jul 11, 4:09 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> >> > >> The MTA announced it will run express trains at night on the #7 line
> >> > >> to take fans back to Manhattan after Mets Games.
>
> >> > >Hasn't that always been the case?
>
> >> > I don't recall Manhattan-bound express service ever being offered for
> >> > night games. There used to be weekend express service for day games,
> >> > but I haven't seen that for a while.
>
> >* Well, there certainly was in 1964-65!
>
> >It's a world of laughter, a world of tears...
>
> I don't recall much about the Fair, but now you've got that damn song
> stuck in my head.
>
> I didn't go to my first Mets game until 1967.

Mine was 1962 -- a double-header against St. Louis. The only time we
won both ends that entire first season. (Yes, in the olden days,
double-headers were a regular part of the schedule, and in the
daytime, too.)

It was the first time I ever took the D train beyond 145th St. -- we
had to take the A down to 145th, and change to the uptown train one
stop to the Polo Grounds station.

My only baseball game at Shea was in 1970, but I'd been there a couple
of weeks earlier to see Billy Graham.

JohnAnon wrote:
>
> It's a world of laughter, a world of tears...
>

Do you mean the World's Fair or the Mets ???

On Jul 12, 6:33 pm, Justa Lurker <JustaLur...@att.net> wrote:
> JohnAnon wrote:
>
> > It's a world of laughter, a world of tears...
>
> Do you mean the World's Fair or the Mets ???

Good one!

--
Mets announcer Gary Cohen:
Why would somebody move to Florida or Texas and then sit indoors in
air conditioning all day?

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> On Jul 11, 11:10 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
>> On Jul 11, 11:01 pm, Peter Schleifer <pschl...@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:35:25 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
>>
>> > <gramma...@> wrote:
>> > >On Jul 11, 4:09 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>> > >> The MTA announced it will run express trains at night on the #7 line
>> > >> to take fans back to Manhattan after Mets Games.
>>
>> > >Hasn't that always been the case?
>>
>> > I don't recall Manhattan-bound express service ever being offered for
>> > night games. There used to be weekend express service for day games,
>> > but I haven't seen that for a while.
>>
> * Well, there certainly was in 1964-65!
>
>I remember the World's Fair express service - on weekdays, the first
>WF-bound train would leave Times Square so it would reach QB Plaza a few
>minutes after the last inbound express had cleared (about 10:20, IIRC).
>These trains would make 5th Avenue and Grand Central only, then run
>non-stop to Willet's Point ("World's Fair"). They would run in reverse
>following the end of the PM rush hour.