Metro

Service returns on two Metro-North lines after blast

Train service on two Metro-North lines has come back to Grand Central Terminal after an explosion in East Harlem left it suspended for almost five hours.

The New Haven and Harlem line are starting to run trains again after the railroad’s structural engineers verified that the elevated tracks were stable and safe near 116th Street and Park Avenue, and test trains were run.

Their trains will use the tracks again, but will move at slow speeds in that area because of concern by FDNY that their vibrations could destabilize the two collapsed buildings further.

The Hudson line has not yet been restored, and riders will have to travel to the Bronx for service.

Riders can take the 4 or D to 161st Street, then walk to the Metro-North station at Yankees-East 153rd Street.

Those heading south are also asked to go to Yankees-East 153rd Street, where they can transfer to the subway, or catch the 1 near the Marble Hill stop.

The MTA said there were no stranded trains Wednesday.

An MTA bus was near the explosion when it happened, and a window was broken. The bus driver was not hurt, and there were no passengers on the bus.

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Riders took to Twitter to talk about the beleaguered railroad’s bad luck.

“This building collapse is obviously not their fault, but if it weren’t for bad luck, Metro-North would have no luck at all,” tweeted @NeilBhatiya, a policy associate at the Century Foundation.

Jenna Hansen, a 19-year-old Maine cosmology student said she could get fired from her housekeeping job if she doesn’t make it tomorrow.

She had traveled to New York City for a beauty show. “No matter what, I have to get home tonight,” she said. “I have to get to work tomorrow. It was really hard to get a couple of days off to come here so if I ask for another day off, they’d probably fire me.”

Her friend Cassandra Del’Aauilla, 21, said she wasn’t happy with the railroad’s communication. “I asked what’s happening. The woman at the window said ‘I don’t know.’ I had to ask the police officer, and he told us a building collapsed. She was very rude.”