Subway Service Back on Track / Returns almost to how it was before attack: [QUEENS Edition]

Subway service will return on Sunday almost to the way it was last Sept. 10 as officials open a half-mile stretch of track damaged in the terrorist attack and then rebuilt way ahead of schedule.

The changes - primarily on the 1 and 9 lines - mean express train service returns to Broadway, and commuters to Staten Island no longer have to walk blocks from the subway to the ferry.

"It's really a big shot in the arm for lower Manhattan, for the lower Manhattan economy and for the city," said Carl Weisbrod, president of the Downtown Alliance.

The Rector Street and South Ferry stations on the 1/9 lines, and the Cortlandt Street station on the N/R path, will...