It’s going to be a miserable ride on the 7 train for an unlucky 13 weekends in Queens this winter.
Starting tomorrow, 7-train service will be suspended between Queensboro Plaza and Times Square from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.
Weekend service won’t be back to normal until April.
Most Manhattan-bound Queens straphangers have other choices, including the N train to Times Square and the E, F and R to other destinations.
But Long Island City residents who live away from those lines will be stuck with shuttle buses instead of train service.
Queens politicians expressed their fury at the changes yesterday.
“What they are doing — whether they intend it or not — is killing small businesses, hurting our cultural organizations and really crippling neighborhoods like Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside and Flushing,” said City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer.
MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz called the lawmakers’ complaints “sheer and utter political grandstanding.”
The MTA says the weekend shutdown will help workers install signals in the tunnel that carries the 7 train from Queens to Manhattan and replace tracks on elevated parts of the line between Queensboro Plaza and Court Square.