Friday, September 21 Service Changes
Grabbed from the MTA website... see map to fully comprehend the loss of service.

We have lost service on the 1/9 lines between Chambers Street and South Ferry indefinitely. The World Trade Center station on the E line is closed, and the N/R line between Canal Street and Whitehall Street is likely to be out of service for weeks during the rescue and clean-up. Additionally, a number of stations — Chambers Street on the 2/3 and A/C, Park Place on the 2/3, and City Hall, Whitehall, Cortlandt, and Rector on the N/R — will be temporarily bypassed by subway service until further notice. By rerouting some trains and extending other routes, we have developed a plan that will permit our subways to serve all areas of the city and provide access to downtown Manhattan.

We have also restored some bus service south of Canal Street to serve the financial district.

We ask for your patience and cooperation during this difficult time; we suggest you allow extra time for your commute and expect more crowded trains. More crowded trains? Exactly how many New Yorkers can you fit in a subway car? -djc

On the morning of Tuesday the 11th, I got out of the subway in Midtown at around 9:15 and found a jittery cell-phone voice mail from my wife instructing me simply to call her right away at home. Because I’d been underground for the previous half-hour, I hadn’t heard anything about the attacks. And so the first thing my wife said when I reached her made no sense to me at all: ‘‘Pieces of burned documents are floating out of the sky into the backyard!’’ Then she filled me in. As soon as I discovered that the subways were no longer running, I began my eight-mile walk back home.... [ go to NYTimes ]

excerpt from - Fallout
By KURT ANDERSEN