Comments on: An entrance opens amidst the Columbus Circle mess

By: NYjunkie

NYjunkie — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:28:39 +0000

The single new entrance at 60th St. did not take 4 years to open. The said entrance is just part and parcel of all the work going on in the station which, by the way, started only in 2006… please do the math – definitely not 4 years.

By: Be

Be — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:42:02 +0000

Wow. It’s only took them about 4 years to open a single entrance.

By: Brian Griffin

Brian Griffin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:14:26 +0000

This station has made a lot of progress from a pretty dismal start — it will be especially interesting to see what happens to the walls on the IRT level, where the original wall designs had been all but lost pre-renovation; hopefully something like the 103rd-110th-116th Street renovations is in order, reconstructing a replica of the original look.

But the parts of the station which have been completed suggest that it may never look as good as some of the other renovated stations do, thanks to awkwardly low ceilings, unusually large amounts of overhead cables and pipes, and rampant, and continuing, leaky pipes causing continual water damage even to some already-fixed parts of the station. We’ll see.

(Oh, and by the way, it’s always been hot. For some reason, there is a real heat trap on the Downtown 1 platform with little ventilation available; the problem may get even worse once the old staircase entrance on that platform is closed up.)

By: Marc Shepherd

Marc Shepherd — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:55:29 +0000

No, they’re not implementing a Penn Station-like layout. The center platform will be used only as a passageway — mainly, I suspect, to serve as a crossover between the uptown/downtown IRT platforms.

By: Benjamin Kabak

Benjamin Kabak — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:51:38 +0000

I’m not quite sure how they plan on using the central passage — perhaps as a crossover for the uptown and downtown IRT stops. But according to the original plans, the central platform will be reopened as a passageway for pedestrians. Train doors won’t open on to that platform.

By: C

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:24:51 +0000

Man, I really hope they don’t split up the local and express waiting areas like they do at Penn Station. And as for that exit– went through it yesterday and it SUCKED. That station is downright dangerous.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:36:36 +0000

“the now-abandoned central platform on the A/B/C/D level will be restored to use.”
Can you describe how that center platform will be used other than a place to collect the garbage?

By: Mark L

Mark L — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:35:35 +0000

Good news, but what about that escalator by the TWC which has been busted for months on end now?

And I agree…I commute in/out of this station every day and can confirm that it is in fact “dirty, hot, dusty and impossible to navigate.”