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East Side Access (ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) two miles from its Main Line in Queens to the new Grand Central Madison station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan's East Side.
An agreement for the first phase was reached in early 2019, and a groundbreaking ceremony took place in December 2022. New Haven Line trains are tentatively expected to run into Penn Station in 2027. The opening of East Side Access will allow the expanded services to operate at Moynihan Train Hall, an expansion of Penn Station.
East Side Access project. As part of the East Side Access project to the new LIRR terminal at Grand Central Terminal (opened January 25, 2023), some LIRR trains diverge from the main line and travel through a tunnel under the yard. The project would also create a new station at Queens Boulevard, named Sunnyside .
Sunnyside had in fact been promised a new LIRR station as far back as 2001, as part of the original proposal for East Side Access: the $11 billion project to extend the LIRR from Queens to...
SUNNYSIDE, NY — Queens public officials on Monday renewed calls for a long-promised LIRR station in Sunnyside, but the MTA says the station can't be built until its East Side Access project...
Outside of Midtown, East Side Access also includes major improvements to the Harold Interlocking, an enormous railroad junction in Queens. Work there, along with the Manhattan tunnels, is now ...
The East River Tunnels are four single-track railroad passenger service tunnels that extend from the eastern end of Pennsylvania Station under 32nd and 33rd Streets in Manhattan and cross the East River to Long Island City in Queens.
The MTA estimated that East Side Access will be complete in early 2023. By November 2018, two of three East Side Access tunnel portals had been built at Harold Interlocking; the remaining portal had been completed by early 2021. Ultimately, East Side Access opened on January 25, 2023. Other improvements
According to the MTA's website, the project known as East Side Access will culminate with the opening of Grand Central Madison, a new terminal along Madison Avenue between 43rd and 48th Streets.
The tunnel was long referred to as the "tunnel to nowhere" because its Queens end did not connect to any other subway line until 2001. Construction on the East Side Access project, which uses the lower level, started in 2006; the lower level opened on January 25, 2023.