While Phase I of the Second Ave. Subway may not be on schedule or at budget, the project seems safe for now simply because the Feds keep sending money its way. As NY1 reported late last week, Sen. Schumer is one step closer to securing more funds for the project, and while looked at how […]
Yesterday afternoon, news broke that the city’s cement-truck drivers had initiated a strike. Now, we learn that this strike’s impact reaches underground. Because no major construction projects in the city can proceed, the strike has halted work on one Second Ave. Subway line. In the end, this one-week delay, the expected duration of the strike, […]
The two-track station at 72nd St. will be significantly narrower than the originally-planned three-track stop. (Source: MTA Capital Construction)
When I started Second Ave. Sagas in November of 2006, I had planned to focus on the Second Ave. Subway and its progress. But the day-to-day construction of a new subway line doesn’t make for compelling blogging […]
With construction fences lining the avenue, it’s easy to see why Second Ave. businesses are suffering. (Photo courtesy of The Launch Box. Click to enlarge.)
Amidst all the bad news surrounding MTA budgets and E-ZPass scandals last week, the Second Ave. Business Association is trying to draw attention to another subway-inspired plight.
The construction of […]
As construction creeps along on Second Ave. for the city’s newest subway lines, business are getting hit hard. We know that the MTA is trying to do what it can to alleviate the impact, but this subway line will benefit hundreds of thousands of people when it opens. It’s a trade off. The Second Ave. […]
Oh, The Post. There’s nothing like it for a little bluster with your morning coffee. While one of my sites has sworn off sensationalized tabloid coverage, I haven’t done the same thing here, and Steve Cuozzo’s ripe for the picking today.
In a piece that brings up some very valid points, Steve Cuozzo rips into […]
Suprise! More on this later, of course, but this completely validates what a few commenters have been saying on this site for a while now. [New York 1]
So that whole Second Ave. subway thing, it’s been around for a while.
Sitting on the top of this post, courtesy of the Modern Mechanix blog, is an image taken from a magazine that hit the streets in October of 1931 when Franklin D. Roosevelt was New York’s governor and Jimmy Walker was our fair city’s […]
A sympathy piece in this week’s New York Magazine details how businesses along the Second Ave. Subway construction zone are suffering. It’s tale we’ve heard before, and while I’m sympathetic to the plight of these business owners and encourage the MTA to fairly compensate them, I can’t oppose one project that stands to benefits hundreds […]
The MTA will delay but not cancel big capital construction projects in an effort to address nearly $1 billion in cost overruns, Marlene Naanes writes in amNew York. While disappointing, this development comes as no surprise after the news this week has focused on runaway inflation and over-budget MTA projects.
Despite these delays, however, MTA officials […]
