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MTA to evaluate potential subway line to run west along Harlem's 125th Street

2022-08-01T09:00:00-04:00

The MTA will consider a transformative project that would extend the upcoming Second Avenue Subway even further by routing it west below 125th Street and then further uptown, the agency announced this week.

The Second Avenue Subway is currently set to expand from its phase 1 completion, which wrapped up in January 2017 with the opening of the 72nd, 86th, and 96th Street stations. The decades-old project, which was originally proposed in 1920, moved into the next stage of the federal funding process earlier this year, that would make way for the extension of the line up to 125th Street in East Harlem. Three new stations would be built along this route.

Now, according to documents released by the MTA this week titled the MTA’s 2025-2044 20-Year Needs Assessment, the Authority will consider extending the Second Avenue Subway even further. The line would move westbound along 125th Street, adding two to four new subway stations. Listed possibilities include the route ending at Broadway and 125th Street, turning north below Broadway to a connection at 137th Street, turning north under Riverside Drive to a connection at 137th Street, or turning north under St. Nicholas Avenue and continuing ...

Geology and the Art of New York City Subway Construction

2014-11-03T13:27:00-05:00

The Second Avenue Subway is the stuff of legend in New York City, the locomotive who cried wolf. Plagued by funding shortages, the project has been stop-and-go since the 1920s. Now construction is back to go; in late September, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) [...] requested $1.5 billion [...]. Michael Horodniceanu, head of construction for the MTA, has stated that the long-awaited line may be ready by 2029. In the meantime, the MTA is learning about, and acting on, geology.

NYC Can't Afford to Build the Second Avenue Subway, and It Can't Afford Not To

2014-07-17T13:36:00-04:00

In New York City history and lore, the Second Avenue subway is the Loch Ness Monster crossed with the Abominable Snowman. Politicians, transit planners, and everyone in between have witnessed this East Side subway line face countless stops and starts [...] And yet, the Second Avenue line has become a beacon for New York's future and a symbol of the numerous challenges facing a global city that must, in light of massive costs and slow build-outs, expand its transit network to stay competitive.