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N/Q train riders experience a delightful, smoky hour-long delay

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Jillian Anthony
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Maybe you thought you'd be goin' up on a Tuesday this morning. Instead, if you were headed to Manhattan from Queens, you either couldn't catch a train for an hour or were actually trapped on your rush hour N or Q train with no escape from the mouthbreather standing beside you. 

Around 9am the MTA pulled service between 57th Street-7th Avenue and Queensboro Plaza because there was a track fire somewhere in the tunnel (is it just me or is random smoke appearing in our subway systems, like, a lot?). Service "resumed" around 9:25am, but there were still extensive delays and a whole lot of angry New Yorkers (at least the L train closure is over?). We gathered up some gems for you to enjoy:

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