Subway Service Is Returning to Old South Ferry Station

More than five months after Hurricane Sandy battered South Ferry station, blowing a hole in the subway map in Lower Manhattan, service will return to the stop on Thursday for the first time since the storm, officials said.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said on Wednesday that trains would arrive in time for the morning rush, restoring the final stop on the No. 1 train and a critical connection for Staten Island Ferry riders. South Ferry has been among the system’s last lingering service gaps, along with A train service in the Rockaways, which the authority hopes to restore by the summer.