
The Second Avenue subway, the long-awaited, often-started but never finished subway line down Manhattan's East Side had its
fourth groundbreaking this week. (My "morning view" pics are usually my own, but I grabbed this one from the
NY Times.) The tunnel shown was sealed up in the 70's during
NYC's big financial crisis and has sat empty since. I can't imagine that I'll still be on the Upper East Side when service begins in 2013, but I'm still excited by the project, which will create a station right near the end of my block. And the new line will be called the "Q".
CORRECTION: Here's a
map of the new line, which shows an
extension of the Q train from Times Square to the
UES (handy!) and the route of the new complete line, to be called the "T".
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