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The Harlem Neighborhood Block Association
June 22, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes
Noise pollution affects all New Yorkers, but as the illustration below shows, East Harlem has some of the worst noise pollution in Manhattan.
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2nd Avenue Subway Phase 3
Okay, so the 2nd Avenue Subway, Phase 2 is not expected to be completed for another 10 years, but planners gotta plan, and it looks like the MTA is more interested in a Phase 3 that extends westward, in Harlem under 125th Street, rather than downtown along 2nd Avenue:
The MTA has for more than 70 years promised New Yorkers a Second Avenue subway in downtown Manhattan — but that dream has once again been put on the backburner.
The agency in a report published last year said an extension of the
line from E. 63rd Street to Houston Street wasn’t a priority. The MTA is already working to extend the line north from E. 96th St. to 125th St. and Lexington Avenue — but now says extending the line farther west into Harlem is a better idea than building a new downtown line.
Officials estimated the downtown extension featuring six new stations would cost $13.5 billion to construct and serve 230,400 daily riders.
Extending the line across Harlem to Broadway from Lexington Avenue and 125th St. — where the Second Avenue subway will terminate once its next phase is completed — would cost $7.5 billion and serve 239,7000 daily riders, officials said.
The estimates are laid out in the MTA’s 20-year needs assessment, a semi-decennial tome that prioritizes infrastructure repairs and grades the feasibility of expansion projects.
Gov. Kathy Hochul earlier this year put her support behind the uptown extension over the downtown one.
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