Second Avenue Subway News

7 trains sit in an MTA maintenance facility near Citi Field.

Budgeting to Avoid ‘Summer of Hell’: Your Guide to the MTA’s Capital Program

Jan. 30, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 29, 2025, 7:15 p.m.

The sprawling transit agency’s much talked about, multi-year, major-projects plan almost always takes a winding route to the finish line.

A transit worker walks along a section of the Second Avenue Subway tunnel under East Harlem, Nov. 23, 2021.

Manhattan

Second Ave. Subway’s Next Leg Progresses With Promise of Congestion Pricing Funds

Jan. 13, 2025, 5:05 a.m.Jan. 13, 2025, 12:37 p.m.

Engineering proposals on tunneling and structural shell work are due by March 5 and a contract is expected to be awarded by the third quarter of this year.

Morning commuters deal with delays on the R line in Brooklyn.

Transit

Red Signals Ahead for First MTA Board Meeting Since Hochul Derailed Toll Plan

June 24, 2024, 5:00 a.m.June 21, 2024, 4:29 p.m.

The of experts and advisors that ostensibly oversees the state transit agency was blindsided by the governor’s move to pause congestion pricing. They meet Wednesday to “make sure the wheels don’t fall off.”

The MTA released renderings of the Second Avenue Subway extension to 125th Street.

Transit

Second Avenue Subway Inches Forward on Phase Two Extension

Jan. 22, 2024, 5:40 p.m.Jan. 24, 2024, 10:59 a.m.

The MTA awarded the first contract on the $7.7 billion project to take the Q line to 125th Street, but legal challenges to congestion pricing, which helps pay for it, and other uncertainties remain.

Second Avenue Subway

MTA Files Eminent Domain Case to Take Over Harlem Properties for Second Ave. Subway Extension

April 20, 2023, 4:50 p.m.April 21, 2023, 6:32 a.m.

Nine lots from East 119th to 120th streets are required for the construction of a ‘launch box’ for tunnel boring machines, according to the MTA’s latest court filing.

Manhattan

As Federal Funds Put Second Ave. Subway Extension on Express Track, Displacement Looms for Locals

Nov. 28, 2021, 7:45 p.m.Nov. 29, 2021, 7:30 a.m.

The Biden istration’s injection of billions into local infrastructure has state and transit officials tooting horns about the Q line’s uptown run. But some residents along the route say they’re trying to avoid getting railroaded out of the neighborhood.

Subway

MTA Inches Forward on Plan to Grab Property for Second Avenue Subway

Sept. 20, 2020, 7:14 p.m.Sept. 20, 2020, 9:37 p.m.

The transit officials have begun acquiring over a dozen properties. But potentially displaced residents likely have been given a reprieve by the agency’s financial collapse.