Scores of revelers yesterday turned the last ride of the W line into a booze-filled party.
“This is not a funeral, but a celebration of life,” said Bill Reese, an Astoria, Queens, resident who organized the gala on Facebook.
The W, along with the V, were discontinued last night in a series of massive service cuts by the MTA.
“We are not going to protest because living well is the best revenge,” Reese, 26, who rode the now-defunct line for three years, said.
“So, we sing songs, its like an Irish wake.”
He played an acoustic guitar as the more than 75 straphangers sipped pina coladas in plastic cups and sang along to such appropriate tunes as “Runaway Train,” by Soul Asylum.
At each station, they clapped and hollered as unsuspecting riders boarded the train. When the Q train, which will extend into Queens to take over for the W, passed by, the riders booed and chanted, “F- – – the Q!”
“This is historical. It’s the end of the line,” said Astoria resident David Levy, who then conceded that he won’t actually miss the W because “there’s another train overtaking it.”
“This was really just an excuse for partying,” the 26-year-old electronic engineer said.
The crowd gathered at the Astoria/Ditmars Boulevard station around 10:15 p.m. and rode the subway to Union Square, where they exited and rode the final W train back to the final stop just before midnight.
About 10 people then continued the party at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden.