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A draft rendering of the Q train platform planned for 125th Street and Lexington Avenue.<\/p>\n
Image courtesy of MTA<\/p>\n
Gov. Kathy Hochul<\/a> proposed in her State of the State address on Tuesday extending the Second Avenue Subway<\/a> west along 125th Street to Broadway.<\/p>\n During Hochul\u2019s speech, where she laid out her policy agenda for this year\u2019s legislative session, she announced her administration will fund design and preliminary engineering for tunneling to extend the Q train to the west side. The proposed extension would add three new stops to the Q line at Lenox Avenue, St. Nicholas Avenue, and Broadway.<\/p>\n The governor\u2019s plan would see tunneling for the 125th Street phase of the project as a \u201cfollow-on\u201d to the East Harlem extension that is already underway.\n<\/p>\n \u201cIn New York, we are investing in our transit system like never before,\u201d Hochul said in a statement. \u201cOur efforts to extend the Second Avenue Subway will save hundreds of millions of dollars in future costs and reduce time \u2013 big wins for the 240,000 daily riders projected to benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n The new stations will pave the way for more connectivity across Manhattan subway lines by overlapping the Q train with seven north-south lines, according to Hochul\u2019s office. The project,\u00a0as estimated by the MTA in its\u00a020-year needs assessment<\/a>, will cost $7.55 billion and connect central Harlem and parts of the Bronx with Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side.<\/p>\n Hochul\u2019s latest announcement follows the completion of a feasibility study for the project<\/a>, which she launched in her 2024 State of the State address. The study found that continuing tunnelling from the East Harlem project across 125th Street would make the project less expensive and time-consuming.<\/p>\n Under the $6.9 billion East Harlem extension to the Second Avenue Subway, the MTA is already tunnel-boring and building new stations at 106th, 116th and 125th Streets, and Lexington Avenue.\n<\/p>\n The East Harlem phase of the project must be completed before construction on the proposed 125th Street leg can begin. In September, the MTA board approved a $2 billion tunnel boring contract for the project.<\/p>\n In October, however, President Trump\u2019s administration froze roughly $18 billion in federal funding<\/a> for infrastructure projects, including the Second Avenue Subway. Federal officials claimed that the project was in alleged violation of new Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) rules, which they had just implemented.<\/p>\n MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber\u00a0stated in December that the agency is\u00a0working to recertify<\/a> contractors involved in the project to ensure they comply with the\u00a0new DEI rules. He also said work on the project has continued despite the funding freeze.<\/p>\n Transit advocates and local business groups celebrated the move.\n<\/p>\n![\"Gov.](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/54841427004_c5cf3e1784_c.jpg\" "\\"Hochul")
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Oct. 8.Susan Watts\/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul<\/p>\n