The L Train

It generally runs well. During rush hour, trains arrive every 2 – 4 minutes. If there’s a delay or shut down, then there aren’t many good alternatives. Try to avoid morning arrivals into manhattan between 8:15 am and 9:00 am and you should be fine. The air conditioning in summertime is weaker than most other lines … I think that the newer trains have energy efficient air conditioners that are probably better for the environment but do not make for a comfortable ride.

I found this train to be reliable. There was always one available to catch when I needed to. In the event that one had just left, another replaced it pretty quickly.
The only thing I would suggest is that the train be a little more clean. While there wasn’t garbage on the inside, you could feel how dirty it was.
You’re always bound to find a character or two on this train, lol.

The L Train, the Carnarsie Line as they call it. Lots of people getting on this train heading off to Brooklyn and coming into Manhattan.
Hipsters, business suits and just about anyone you can imagine takes this line. It’s all the gentrification that is happening in Brooklyn. Still there are some parts that are not the safest like several stations heading through East New York. Only couple stations in Brooklyn where the the hipsters and yuppies are. What I love about the L train is that there is not such a long wait to hop on the train going towards 8^th Ave in Manhattan like every 5 – 8 minutes there is a train coming.
It’s packed during rush hour, but then again there is another train coming within several minutes.
In the old days, you miss an L train and the wait is brutal. The MTA now a days have so many trains coming and going there is no need to run after trains or hold doors. Life is good in NYC.

Oh L train, I love how unpredictable you are. Always keeping me on my toes. This is SO us! The way you decide to terminate at random stops making me late for work. Or when you decide to skip my station — that’s always my favorite (makes me really question «why?»).
But seriously, when you’re good — you’re really good. So pls get yourself together and make my life easier (at least for a little… before you’re shut down completely!)

Apart from the daily delays, this morning the first 5 cars on the train were filled with homeless people with terrible odor that deterred other people from getting on. Our City needs to handle our homeless problem, but I think the MTA should come up with someway also, since it cost so much to travel, it’s only fair that you are able to sit on the subway without having to deal with the issues of the homeless. This is a serious issue that should not be overlooked.

When it works, it’s great. Otherwise, utter disaster due to the large #s who’ve moved into its formerly lightly/​thinly populated areas. Every station is a delicate long story of so much that’s needed that the problems also include urban planning, policy, hydrology (lots of leaks in stations & threatening bodies of water, many badly polluted), and hipster culture/​woes. Within Manhattan, however, it’s awesomely handy to get crosstown on the only crosstown-​dedicated line. Overall, it’s alright.

Average.
When it works, it works really well. When it fails, it fails spectacularly. And it generally fails in one of three ways:
1. During any period of inclement weather lasting more than a day or maybe two, the train is delayed along its elevated portion of track (in Brooklyn, between Canarsie and Myrtle-​Wykoff, there are several above-​ground stations). This means that during rush hour, the Manhattan-​bound train scheduled to come every 4 minutes winds up arriving only every 10 – 15 minutes.
Solution: Fix the fucking tracks. We get a fair amount of rain in winter, so the fact that this train floods anytime it’s more than misting outside is unacceptable. Failing that, run the train every 2 – 3 minutes instead of every 4 – 6. With the crowding at Lorimer and Bedford, we need it anyway, and the people coming to the city from the last 5 Brooklyn stops deserve the upgrades twice as much since it’s the fastest way to get to the east side of the city.
Hey Albany, fund the MTA.
2. The Canarsie-​bound train winds up terminating at Myrtle-​Wykoff, so if you live anywhere past that station, you’re SOL.
Solution: Run the whole damn route. Failing that, provide better advance notice of the shorter route. People live in places other than North Brooklyn, you know, and guess what? THEY HAVE JOBS they have to get to, ON TIME!
Really, Albany, just fund the damn MTA. You know most of the state’s tax money comes from us. Why do you not want us to get to work? Don’t you want your money for pet pork projects? Well, where do you think THAT comes from?!?
3. Because of either Issue #1 or general signal/​delay/​bunching and gapping issues, the train is so packed by the time it hits Grand St. in Brooklyn that you wind up getting a bunch of people shoving their way on. If you are trying to ride to your office without killing someone, you’ll probably be riding alongside a high percentage of NYU students who are VERY pissed about taking classes that start before noon. A small but obvious minority of the students express this anger by taking up multiple seats, plus whatever’s required for their backpacks, which they will not remove and lower under any circumstances.
Solution: See above.
In other words…
* Fund the MTA.
* Fund the MTA.
* Parents, teach your kids some manners. Newbies, read the signs. They funded the signs. For you! To learn how to take your backpack OFF.
* Fund the MTA.
* Goddammit, Albany, fund our trains already! And Washington, that goes for you too. I know we’re not like Real America, Fuck Yeah! or anything over here, and I’m sure a fair number of Trump voters run an internal monologue identical to John Rocker’s every time they see a subway car, but come on. We’re overcrowded, overstressed, and pumping out immense amounts of tax money to send to the people who take a dollar and 25 cents for every buck we spend while they have the nerve to call US «moochers.» A transit system that can legitimately be considered «world class» isn’t a lot to ask, even if it isn’t providing incentive for the umpteenth oil war in the Middle East.

Mostly useless to the average new yorker. Gets the 20 something new swarm of out of towner hipsters to their favorite kitten and story time bar though.

way way WAY better than it used to be!
Newer cars, audio announcements, real time updates, some wi-​fi installed somewhere.
Punctual for MTA and that’s saying something as they are a truly clueless agency.
Years ago this was one of the ‘forgotten lines’, recent gentrification has added to it’s new life.
Sometimes it’s MUCH TOO crowded, and those acrobat kids, where’s the cops?
Believe me a subway line can be MUCH worse, look around.
.NYC lifer utter jackass aside— that’s my 2¢

The L is on time most of the time. Except during rush hour and weekends when all bets are off. Rush hour is the worst by far. Can’t help but feel like a canned sardine.
And of course the crowd is hella obnoxious and wild at times. Bring your headphones and a book maybe. Not gonna lie though, I have been one of those wild ones but oh well.
After around Wilson stop can get a bit eerie after midnight. Sometimes I get off at Atlantic and have to watch out on the platform.
Too many stops in Brooklyn too often. has that roller coaster feeling of coming to a stop before acquiring much speed.
At Union Square, just try to stand somewhere in the middle of the cart or even better at the opposite side of the open doors. or the crowd will take you down, run over you like a pack of wild zebras, and will leave your bruised body somewhere on the floor. in bits of plaid and trader joes ripped paper bags. good luck!

I like this train for it takes us to our home in NYC. The lower eastside that is alphabet city to be exact. This line runs east to west and up and down 14^th street. So we were at the old trades towers and what to head east to Veniero’s for some dessert so down under ground and onto the L train we went. I will say that the station where we got on was way cool. They had a bunch of small bronze statues of in one case workers hanging up a steel beam. another one was of a gator headed man grabbing a little crawling baby. They were defiantly pretty cool. The train was a train that we ride all over town.

3 Stars because it’s a train, it’s subway line.
I’m sorry but only a complete and utter jackass would take the time to write a review of a subway train. I am one now but only because I felt the need to point out what a lot of idiots and post whores you are.

You mean the L (ate) train.
it’s good for going to Bushwick and Williamsburg, but then again there isn’t much that goes there so what would you do instead

Although there is alot of Problems here and there in the New York City subway in all my life The L has been one of the fastest Well other then the Comms based train control On the new trains I still Think it was a better line with the older cars (R40 slants and 42s) Still is a good line today But I just hate the Computer Thing we can’t always rely on Computers but still… Great line and it’s been in service since the 1920s.

This train was a bit scared since one of the doors on this train was missing? Other than that it’s just your routines average NYC subway train.

Recently took this train around 10AM on a weekday from 14^th street to Bedford Ave in Brooklyn. It came fairly quick, around 2 minutes after I got to the platform. The other side, the next train was in 3 minutes. It was not crowded at all, mostly since it was after the morning rush hour. It was clean, and of course, full of Williamsburg hipsters with their beards and moustaches. The whole trip was fast as well, took me from Union Sq to Bedford Avenue in about 10 minutes.

Oh L train!!! I missed our daily rides. Inspecting every seat and choosing the one least likely to give me bed bugs. My move to the J line has put our daily quality time on hiatus until today that is. Thank you for the delays today and the constant stopping for «train traffic ahead» for old times sake. You made my usual six stops memorable once again.

Wow… took the L train back to Manhattan this evening to transfer to the Q train at Union Square and as I walked through the corridor between the L and the R, N, Q train at Union Square, I saw a line of people clogging about 4/​5ths of the hallway. It looked soooo much like a bread line from the Great Depression. I rarely take the L train, but I have never saw a bread line towards the stairs to get on this train.
MTA, what is the deal-​io? You take money from hard-​working New Yorkers by raising the fares, but are giving really bad, unreliable service on most, if not ALL, of the subway lines.

Ever wonder what people do when they’ve run out of matches on Tinder and their free Netflix trial has expired… Yup, you guessed it! They hop on Unilocal and write meaningless Unilocal reviews about a subway train.
I honestly would pay to know what compels somebody to write an extensive review of a rusty old subway train. Of all the things to be doing on any given night, you’ve consciously decided that the most effective use of your time was to inform me that I may/​may not be sitting next to a guy who dresses like Marty McFly.
What’s next? The all-​important McDonalds review where my mind is blown by your step-​by-​step ingredient breakdown of a #5?
Now before your respond with your less-​then-​clever, «Oh yeah… You’re much better then us. Unilocal-​reviewing a Unilocal Reviewer!»… I already agree with you. So in the words of Jack Napier, «Don’t even bother.»
Here’s what a real Unilocal review of the L-​Train should look like: It’s a NYC subway.

Every hipster’s favorite train. You will see them get off on Morgan Avenue, maybe Montrose Avenue, perhaps Bedford Avenue or Grand street. Gotta love you some Williamsburg!
Okay, this train is the ONLY train that goes to Canarsie. You can transfer on the L from the A, C, J, Z trains from Broadway Junction. The train takes time to come. Sometimes you might need to wait an hour or more. What? I’d rather walk. The last time I was waiting with a friend to go to Canaria on Halloween and the train took 33 minutes to arrive. Um what? I don’t think so.
You can visit all of your favorite hot spots in Williamsburg if you wish. People, Williamsburg isn’t the only spot in Brooklyn that’s fun! Tsk…