Comments on: And now it’s gone: the Fulton St. Transit Hub dome

By: Dust Bowl • Jessica Alfieri

Dust Bowl • Jessica Alfieri — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:58:09 +0000

[...] asphalt jobs, and the BQE’s seemingly eternal “repair.” Then we have MTA debacles like these, and still are expected to pay more and more for shittier [...]

By: Second Ave. Sagas | Blogging the NYC Subways » Blog Archive » Thirty days hath the MTA’s Fulton St. calendar

Fri, 16 May 2008 04:48:24 +0000

[...] painstakingly — the fun started in January when the MTA announced that the transit hub would be scaled back due to skyrocketed costs. Fulton St. residents [...]

By: Second Ave. Sagas | Blogging the NYC Subways » Blog Archive » MTA: No, really, we’ll build something at Fulton St.

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:04:41 +0000

[...] last we checked in with the Hub in January, the MTA had just scrapped plans for the Hub’s dome and displaced business owners and downtown residents were not too pleased to hear about the [...]

By: Second Ave. Sagas | Blogging the NYC Subways » Blog Archive » Downtown residents want Fulton St. hub

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:36:55 +0000

[...] Lower Manhattan residents to that ever-growing list of New Yorkers annoyed at the plans to overhaul the Fulton St. Transit Hub. They join the displaced merchants as everyone tries to finger the MTA for this misguided [...]

By: Second Ave. Sagas | Blogging the NYC Subways » Blog Archive » MTA has hundreds of millions of reasons to support congestion pricing plan

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:13:39 +0000

[...] relief is on the horizon for the MTA’s beleaguered capital construction plans. After a week of bad news concerning rising construction costs and project delays, state commission on Mayor [...]

By: LD876

LD876 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:49:07 +0000

The MTA has something insane like 9 CFO’s, then 9 department heads — all of groups that could be consolidated into one group.

If they trimmed the fat internally, the city’s subways, trains and services wouldn’t have to be cut. Shockingly bureaucratic.

By: Second Ave. Sagas | Blogging the NYC Subways » Blog Archive » Displaced Fulton Streeters are none too pleased

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:04:55 +0000

[...] the news keeps coming in, this Fulton St. overhaul isn’t getting much favorable play. While the New York Post graciously obnoxiously noted how [...]

By: Second Ave. Sagas | Blogging the NYC Subways » Blog Archive » Second Ave. Subway third track a victim of inflation

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:22:32 +0000

[...] 2nd Ave. Subway History « And now it’s gone: the Fulton St. Transit Hub dome [...]

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:05:19 +0000

I also read that they’re thinking about eliminating a third “back-up” tunnel from the SAS to trim costs. Is this true?

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:54:21 +0000

One of the major factors has been the cost of acquiring land/rights in an incredibly inflated market.

The other has been vying for labor and materials in the tightest market in our lifetimes due to an unprecedented building boom.

If they are delaying the structure, and not scrapping it altogether, I have a feeling we’ll see much more competitive bids next year as the housing and CRE markets continue to circle the drain.

The building industry is about to see some major pain outside of infrastructure projects.