LIRR will suspend service to some stations in Queens, Brooklyn this weekend

The Long Island Rail Road will suspend service to several stations in Queens and Brooklyn this weekend for switch replacements, MTA officials said Thursday.

The LIRR will stop running trains between Jamaica and Atlantic Terminal from 9 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Monday, the MTA announced.

The last trains running Friday evening leave Jamaica at 8:44 PM and from Atlantic Terminal at 8:51 PM

Subway service will be available in place of LIRR trains to Atlantic Terminal and subway stations will honor LIRR tickets for free at Penn Station, Herald Square, Barclays Center, Fulton Street, Nostrand Street and at Broadway Junction.

LIRR passengers can present LIRR tickets to station agents at any subway station.

The MTA also does not run J trains to Jamaica, C trains do not run and A trains are stopped at Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.

Also starting Monday, Amtrak’s work on the East River Tunnel will require closing two of the four tubes to Penn Station.

The work will reroute two morning peak trains to Manhattan from Penn Station to Grand Central Madison. Some other trains from Penn Station may adjust schedules a few minutes earlier or later, MTA officials said.

To accommodate track maintenance, the weekday service changes, skipping some stops on LIRR trains in Queens that started last week, will continue for one final day Friday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Westbound trains will run nonstop from Jamaica to Manhattan on Fridays, skipping service at Forest Hills, Woodside and Kew Gardens. Trains on the Port Washington line still stop in Woodside in both directions.

Queens passengers can board the subway for free at Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue, Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike Forest Hills-71 Avenue and Woodside-61st Street.

Eastwards will be affected from next week.

John Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.