At 2 p.m. this afternoon, MTA officials and New York politicians were gather at Cortlandt St. for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the reopening of the northbound Cortland St. platform. For the first time since August 2005, Queens-bound R/W trains on the BMT Broadway line will stop at the Cortlandt St. station. Unfortunately, due to prior plans, I won’t be able to make the ceremony at which MTA Chairman and CEO Jay H. Walder, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, State Senator Dan Squadron, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Councilman Alan Gerson will appear. I do, however, hope to snap some pictures of the renovated station later today. The southbound platform will remain closed until at least early 2011.
Northbound Cortlandt St. platform reopens today
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Why only northbound?
It seems that the planned towers along Church St. are indefinitely delayed because of the recession.
Therefore, if they had any sense, they would reopen the southbound platform, and also reopen the sidewalk on the west side of Church St., which was reconstructed and then closed off again.
The Southbound platform is still closed because of work the Port Authority is doing on the WTC site and the PATH hub they’re building. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the towers along Church St. Furthermore, the station is in no shope to reopen any time soon. It’s a mess.
I thought that the WTC work in question WAS the proposed towers along Church St. It now looks like they will not be built anytime soon, maybe never.
As for the Calatrava station, which includes the permanent PATH terminal, isn’t it far enough to the west as to not get in the way of reopening the southbound Cortlandt St. platform?
I don’t know the specific details of it but due to Port Authority work, as I said, the southbound station will be closed until 2011. Plus, the station is in the midst of a renovation. The MTA can’t just decide to reopen it. When it’s ready and the work is through, they’ll reopen it.
The work adjacent to the northbound side pertains to the transit hub and other underground infrastructure that needs to be built now, while the site is still an empty hole.
Right. The work on the northbound side relates to Fulton St. while the southbound work relates to the PATH/Calatrava station and the ongoing work on the Freedom Tower (or whatever its name is now).
I’m totally gonna see how this affects my commute next Monday. Too bad it’s only in one direction 🙁
Any re-opening, no matter how delayed is welcome. Thanks for the early Christmas present, MTA!
What, you didn’t think they could reopen a station within 10 years, did you?