Work on the Second Avenue Subway line began in 1972, when Mayor John Lindsay and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller broke ground in East Harlem. Three years later, the project was shelved, a victim of the ...

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After a years-long delay, the second phase of the Second Avenue Subway extension is set to take off thanks to a $3.4 billion injection from the federal government.

“The Second Avenue Subway is delivering tremendous benefits and value for New York and is more cost-effective per rider than comparable projects in other cities,” said MTA spokesman Sean Butler.

The 1.5-mile new leg of the subway, which will arc from Second to East 125th, will offer three new stations at East 106th, East 116th and East 125th streets and cost about $7 billion. The Federal ...

East Harlem has been a subway desert ever since the Second Avenue El stopped service above 57th Street in 1940, according to the MTA. "Finally, it's a day of reckoning.

For the first time since World War II, a train went north of East 59th Street and east of Lexington Avenue last Sunday. That’s right, the long-awaited, highly doubted and much-scrutinized Second ...

The Second Avenue Subway’s first phase is so close, we can almost hear it rumbling under our feet. The first phase, running the Q train through a rehabilitated station at Lexington Avenue and ...

The Second Avenue subway project’s per-rider cost is estimated at $62,500 for Phase Two, in the middle of the pack worldwide, officials contended. John Kaehny, ...

The Second Avenue Subway finally has a set opening date, nearly a decade after its most recent official groundbreaking.It's been a long road for this particular project, and an even longer one for ...

If the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's budget debate is not resolved in the next 18 months, the agency could be forced to refund money to contractors on expansion projects, its chairman ...