You may have noticed the MTA signage that arrived last week along 14th Street at Avenue A...
...announcing [the obvious] that preliminary work is underway for building new entrances at Avenue A and a new power station at Avenue B for the L train.
The renderings provide a sneak preview of what's in store here...
... and a closer look at the rendering scalies... a happy-looking lot who must not think that they'll be experiencing delays due to, say, signal and switch problems or track fires...
And on 14th Street at Avenue B... presumably the new power station for the L will be going in along here somewhere...
As you likely know, this work is starting ahead of the L train shutdown between Bedford Avenue and Eighth Avenue to repair the Sandy-damaged Canarsie Tunnel. The shutdown of the L is expected to last 15 months with a start date of April 2019.
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I think this is a very positive development and 2020 will be here sooner than you think. My only question and it might be due to a bad rendering on scale, the south side of 14th has the elevator placed in the center of the sidewalk providing what appears to be 2 feet passing space on either side.
ReplyDeleteA guy who lives in my building is an engineer with the MTA, and he says the power substation on B will be subterranean, not street level.
ReplyDeleteThose pictures resemble the art at the 2nd ave 72th street station. A pathetic resemblance.
ReplyDeletehttps://qz.com/876238/inside-new-yorks-new-4-5-billion-art-museum-the-second-avenue-subway/
All that's missing is an ass groper.
They don't look happy - they look envious!
ReplyDeleteWill the station be open in time for the impending L train shutdown?
ReplyDeleteThis "What New York Subway Stations Actually Look Like" might be fun to read?
ReplyDeleteEveryone's depicted as deliriously happy because the MTA is under fire and this is a subconscious attempt by some MTA employee to improve its image. Nice work, company man.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget that renderings are the fiction of architecture.
ReplyDeleteIt is a bit amazing that it will take 3 plus years to do this project
ReplyDeleteWhat's the point of opening this now if they're temporarily closing the L line in 2-3 years?
ReplyDelete"Work Concludes Summer of 2020." I wonder what the Las Vegas odds are?
ReplyDeleteI don't foresee this happening for some time. Building a new entrance on a new street is not a easy feat. Given the glacial reputation of the MTA, I'd say maybe 5 to 7 years, if that. Wishful thinking though.
ReplyDeleteThat was some dog and pony show the city council threw yesterday.
ReplyDeleteAt 8:06 PPM, Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteI don't foresee this happening for some time. Building a new entrance on a new street is not a easy feat. Given the glacial reputation of the MTA, I'd say maybe 5 to 7 years, if that. Wishful thinking though.
I'm fully expecting this whole project to be delayed again and again; in this city, optimism is usually rewarded with disappointment, that's all I'm saying.
@Scuba
ReplyDeleteIt will certainly take that long, no joke. Especially when you add the restructuring of the Canarsie tunnel and all the hyperdevelopment going on both sides, and who knows how many more towers are being planned and if the BQX becomes a horrific reality. In my lousy borough of Queens, renovations and handicap accessible additions have taken 3 years and counting.
I am a layman when it comes to city planning and engineering, but the reason I believe that they didn't repair that damn tunnel immediately after Hurricane Sandy was just to get the development going and the remodeling of the East Village and Williamsburg unabated and the speculative/fabricated market rate to obscenely soar.
Actually -the MTA is terrible when it comes to new projects
ReplyDelete2nd Ave Subway and 7 train extensions were both WAY over budget and completely years behind schedule
BUT
when it comes to mission critical repairs MTA actually has a good track record
previous Sandy fixes in other MTA tunnels have come in under time and under budget