Prisoners of Second Avenue
1929: city announces that it will build a Second Avenue subway line, part of a plan to add a 100-mile network at an estimated cost of $800 million.
2007: city starts building Second Avenue subway. And we thought work orders for the Board of Ed were slow.
Back to 1929, the Great Depression stopped the plan until—weirdly–work resumed in 1972, then had to be stopped again because of the fiscal crisis. 35 years later, no trains run through “the tunnel to nowhere.”
Incredibly, [...]
Posted in The City on April 19th, 2007 | 
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