TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014 • 18 TRANSIT NEWS and Updates Metropolitan Transportation Authority Riders are advised to allow for additional travel time. Daytime Disruptions On 7 Train To Man. Manhattan-bound 7 trains will skip the 111th Street, 103rd Street, 90th Street and 82nd Street stations on Monday, Dec. 8, through Thursday, Dec. 11, from 10:15 a.m. until 3 p.m. These trains will continue to stop at Junction Boulevard. For service to these stations, take the 7 train to Junction Boulevard or 74th Street, then transfer to a Flushing-bound 7 train. For service from these stations, take the 7 train to Junction Boulevard or Mets- Willets Point, then transfer to a Manhattan-bound 7 train. Some L Trains Make Last Stop In R’wood Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues will be the last stop for alternate L trains from Manhattan on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 4-5, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For Canarsie-bound service, transfer between L trains at Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues to continue the trip. It was noted that trains will operate every 12 minutes between Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues and Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway. The information in this column is current as of Wednesday, Dec. 3. Last minute changes to service and operating schedules may be made at any time after publication. Check www.mta.info for schedule changes. J & M Skip Bklyn. Stops On Weekdays Jamaica Center-bound J trains and Middle Village-bound M trains will skip the Hewes Street, Lorimer Street and Flushing Avenue stations on Tuesday through Thursday, Dec. 9-11, from 9:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. As a result of this change, all Manhattan-bound J trains will make local stops between Myrtle Avenue-Broadway and Marcy Avenue after 9:45 a.m. each day. For service to the skipped stations, take the J or M trains to Myrtle Avenue-Broadway, then transfer to a Manhattan-bound J or M train. For service from the skipped stations, take the J or M train to Marcy Avenue (Unlimited MetroCard holders only) or Essex Street, then transfer to a Jamaica Center-bound J train or a Middle Village-bound M train. Additionally, J trains will operate local service in both directions between Myrtle Avenue and Marcy Avenue on Thursday, Dec. 4, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. -SEE TRANSIT ON PG. 54- TRAFFIC NEWS and Updates New York City Department Of Transportation to the state Department of Transportation’s Kew Gardens Interchange project will require the right lane of Union Turnpike eastbound to be closed at all times between 128th and 134th streets. All existing traffic lanes will remain open and are shifted to the left.L ane Closures On Grand Central Pkwy. One lane of the Grand Central Parkway in each direction will be closed between 82nd and 111th streets on weekdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. on weekdays. Lane closures will also take place from 10 p.m. Fridays to 7 a.m. Saturdays and from 10 p.m. Saturdays to 3 p.m. Sundays. Two lanes of traffic in each direction may be closed on weeknights from 12:01 until 5 a.m., Saturdays from 1 to 6 a.m. and Sundays from 1 to 9 a.m. For additional closures, visit the city DOT’s website at www.nyc.gov/dot or call 311. Street Cleaning Suspended Mon. Alternate-side parking rules will be suspended Monday, Dec. 8, in observance of the Christian feast of the Immaculate Conception. Meter regulations, however, remain in effect citywide. * * * Because of ongoing construction work at several locations throughout Queens and Brooklyn, the city DOT has announced numerous street closures in local neighborhoods for the upcoming week. The announced diversions are current as of Wednesday, Dec. 3, and weather permitting. The DOT may shut down other roads should the need for emergency repairs arise. Streets and highways that are affected by closures during this week include the following: Kew Gdns. Project Affects Union Tpke. Long-term construction related DOE To Cut Grade From Woodside Elem. School Aims To Ease Student Transition, Overcrowding by Robert Pozarycki Later this month, the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) will vote on a Department of Education (DOE) plan to eliminate a grade at a Woodside elementary school. P.S. 152 (the Gwendoline N. Alleyne School), located at 33-52 62nd St., currently serves 1,392 students from kindergarten through sixth grade. Looking to ease overcrowding on campus and ease student transition to middle school, the DOE aims to eliminate the sixth-grade class starting with the September 2015 school year. The proposal would also include rezoning P.S. 152’s boundaries so fewer kindergarten students enroll there in the years to come. “The DOE believes that P.S. 152 families would benefit if all students move on to middle school after completing the fifth grade,” according to an announcement the DOE released last Tuesday, Nov. 25. “By entering middle school in sixth grade rather than seventh grade, students at P.S. 152 will be able to take advantage of the enriching, high-school preparatory experiences one year earlier.” If approved, current fifthgraders at P.S. 152 would be promoted in June to attend sixth grade at one of three middle schools serving the zone: I.S. 125 at 46-02 47th Ave. in Woodside; I.S. 10 at 45-11 31st Ave. in Astoria; and I.S. 230 at 73-10 34th Ave. in Jackson Heights. 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