{"id":176653,"date":"2025-08-26T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176653\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:26:07","slug":"editors-note-second-avenue-subway-extension-and-other-projects-signal-milestone-for-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176653\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s note: Second Avenue subway extension and other projects signal milestone for New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-announces-second-avenue-subway-phase-2-moving-forward-award-tunneling-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">approval of a $1.97 billion construction contract<\/a> last week was a major milestone in the long-overdue plan of extending Second Avenue subway service into East Harlem. The project, in the works for decades, has started and stopped so often it didn\u2019t look like it would even happen. Now, it enters its second phase, extending the Q line from 96th Street to 125th Street. Tunnel boring is planned to begin in 2027 and completion is expected in 2032.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Wright, executive director at the Regional Plan Association, called it \u201ca big deal\u201d for the transit-starved, working-class neighborhood, but noted the extension is one of several regional transportation projects completed, underway or planned, including the No. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydc.org\/no-7-subway-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">7 train extension<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/project\/interborough-express\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Interborough Express<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/project\/penn-station-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Penn Station Access<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatewayprogram.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gateway<\/a> rail tunnel and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panynj.gov\/bus-terminals\/en\/port-authority\/midtown-bus-terminal-replacement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Port Authority Bus Terminal replacement<\/a>. \u201cThe last time we were doing this was about 100 years ago, at the beginning of the last century when the subway was being built out and the private railroads were tunneling under the Hudson River extending the commuter rail lines up into the suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut,\u201d Wright told City &amp; State. He credited elected officials and named New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg for \u201cchampioning the No. 7 line extension and seeing the value of the Hudson Yards,\u201d and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for pushing through the first phase of the Second Avenue subway up to 96th Street, among other projects. Gov. Kathy Hochul won the most favor for supporting the Interborough Express and congestion pricing. \u201cShe\u2019s going to go down as one of the great transit politicians\/governors in New York history,\u201d he said. Praise like that doesn\u2019t come around very often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board\u2019s approval of a $1.97 billion construction contract last week was a major milestone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":176654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,56383,9904,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,6546,522,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-176653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-editors-note","10":"tag-mta","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-opinion","18":"tag-personality","19":"tag-transportation","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}