By Gabriela Resto-Montero and Elizabeth Ladzinski
DNAinfo Staff
MIDTOWN — An incident at Queensboro Plaza Thursday morning backed up the N, Q lines, resulting in a long and crowded commute into Manhattan.
Queens-bound trains were turned back at the 57th Street and Seventh Avenue station in Midtown while emergency personnel tended to a customer who was injured on the tracks, said NYC Transit spokesman Charles Seaton.
The unidentified passenger was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, Seaton said.
Full service on the N, Q line was restored shortly before 9 a.m. but traffic was backed up along the line.
Frustrated straphangers took to Twitter to complain that people waiting for Brooklyn-bound trains at 59th Street were crammed up the stairs, .
Once on-board, the crush of people frustrated commuters.
“Some accident on the N/Q in Queens this AM = I’m packed so tight I can barely breathe on a train that hasn’t moved in 20 min,” wrote Twitter user ebroms.
Uptown commuters were experiencing shorter delays by approximately 10 a.m.
"My train was delayed, not long, but enough to be annoying," said one straphanger who did not wish to be named. She was traveling on an uptown N train arriving at 49th st and Seventh Ave.
