New York Today: Derailed

M.T.A. via Flickr Workers inspected damaged Metro-North track in the Bronx after a freight train hauling garbage derailed on Thursday night, crippling passenger service on Metro-North’s Hudson line.

A freight train derailment in the Bronx on Thursday night is causing major problems for the morning commute and will likely disrupt service for days.

Service on Metro-North’s Hudson commuter line, which serves 18,000 riders, is suspended south of Yonkers. There, shuttle buses will bring passengers to the Van Cortlandt Park subway station of the No. 1 line.

We will be watching all morning for the ripple effects across the region, including how this is affecting other commuter lines, subways and roadways.

Metro-North said Friday morning that the derailment of 10 cars on a 24-car-long train hauling garbage near the Spuyten Duyvil station “couldn’t have happened in a worse location.” The line is only two tracks wide and hemmed in by rock walls, making it hard to even remove the derailed cars.

“it’s not like pickup sticks,” said a railroad spokeswoman, Marjorie Anders. “It’s 10 huge cars that have to be picked up and hoisted on a crane.” She said the track at the location has been ruined and the third rail knocked down.

As for restoring service, she said, “If we’re very lucky it’ll be done in the next day or two.”

Here’s what else you need to know to start your Friday.

WEATHER

Heatwave? More like heat-tsunami: today is the hottest yet with a forecast high of 99 on Friday, 95 on Saturday with heavy rain. The hot streak should break on Sunday, with highs in the 80s.

TRANSIT & TRAFFIC

- Mass Transit: Subways are O.K. Click for the current status.

- Roads O.K. so far.

Alternate-side parking rules in effect.

COMING UP TODAY

- “Walker Evans American Photographs” opens at the Museum of Modern Art.

- The Classical Theater of Harlem’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. [Free]

- “Music in Motion”, a showcase of the region’s up-and-coming musicians debuts to delight New Jersey Transit customers at Newark Penn Station, Hoboken Terminal and Secaucus Junction.

- Watch the installation of art by Sol LeWitt in the Lobby of the Jewish Community Center. [Free]

- Fall Out Boy plays the “Today Show.” Watch them at 49th Street and Rockefeller Plaza. [Free]

- Arias outdoors at the Metropolitan Opera’s recital tonight in Brooklyn Bridge Park. [Free]

- For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.

AND FINALLY…

Today, you can request that an ice cream truck stop with a smartphone app. It’s a promotion by Uber, a cab hailing system.

E.C. Gogolak and Andy Newman contributed reporting.

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