Comments on: For East Side Access, a new Grand Central entrance

By: jj

jj — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:35:28 +0000

unfortunate delay , but great news when it opens

By: New GCT entrance delayed until 2012 :: Second Ave. Sagas

New GCT entrance delayed until 2012 :: Second Ave. Sagas — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:30:06 +0000

[...] construction. Although at the time the project was not set to open until 2016, the MTA planned to debut a new entrance this September on 47th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues. It is not yet meant to [...]

By: George

George — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:23:57 +0000

is this thing open? you need to do more than just reprint press releases, son

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:47:21 +0000

I heard MTA Chairman Jay Walder speak recently. He said that the current ESA design does not “preclude” a Sunnyside station, but it will not be built as part of the current plan. He was very clear that MTA went to some effort to allow for a future station.

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:37:18 +0000

There’s no need to cut service to one terminal. Just run shortline trains from Jamaica with cross-platform transfers. Preferably those transfers could be timed so that the two trains pull up at the platform at the same time and wait there for 30-60 seconds to let people transfer.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:47:45 +0000

No elevator? I’m madly in love with GCT, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a little on the inaccessible side at times, often not necessarliy because of actual lack of access but instead a lack of signage. Getting into GCT in a wheelchair can be difficult at points, and I’m of a mind that they could use a few more elevators for street access. I’m fairly athletic, so people who aren’t must have nothing but disdain for those huge ramps.

Side note: I still don’t understand why MTA says that the IRT shuttle isn’t accessible. I prefer it to the 7, fewer elevators that can break, particularly at Times Square, and VERY convenient when you come out of the Boston Properties elevator. The gap at T-Square is a little on the big side, but has nothing on the gap at Franklin/Fulton, which is designated as accessible – it can also be avoided entirely by boarding at the eastbound edge of the car, where the gap is no worse than the little jump at the Queens-bound IND platform at 63rd/Lex. Only problem being that, because it’s not signed as accessible, I can never FIND it at GCT because of the multitude of entrances to the IRT, so I always have to take the S from T-Square but the 7 to T-Square.

I don’t carry a rule around and I don’t memorize the ADAAG requirements, but I would think that MTA should be at least be able to say something to the effect of “may be accessible to some mobility-impaired customers, please use caution when boarding and deboarding at Times Square.”

By: wanderingi

wanderingi — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:59:02 +0000

… the Hunterspoint Ave would stay.

And, Cap’n Transit, the name of Amtrack’s yard is “Sunnyside Yard.” The station would be built on their property, thus the name …

By: petey

petey — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:35:17 +0000

so the hunterspoint ave station would remain?

By: Jerrold

Jerrold — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:19:36 +0000

But, just imagine the uproar from the people in Brooklyn if they were to do that!
In my opinion, there SHOULD be off-peak service to Grand Central, but I don’t think that they will take away the existing service to Brooklyn.

By: L. Hernandez

L. Hernandez — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:11:37 +0000

This new entrance, set to open in September 2011, will extend the Grand Central entrance options north to 47th St.

It’s worth noting here that there currently exists access at 48th and Park Avenue, and up through the Helmsley building at Park between 45th and 46th, though not access at Lex & 47th, so this is more a branching out in an ever so slightly eastern direction than a northern extension.