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edit. 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.
Width. 23 feet (7.0 m) [1] Route map. East River Tunnels. Location in New York City. 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 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.
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 ...
Highlights of the project, according to the MTA, include direct connection for all 11 LIRR lines to Grand Central Terminal and Midtown East; a new, 350,000-square-foot terminal with spacious ...
LONG ISLAND, NY — A project that will bring long-awaited Long Island Rail Road trains to the East Side of Manhattan that's been years in the making is still slated to open by the end of 2022 ...
The East Side Access project, including tunnels under the East River and the East Side of Manhattan, was completed in early 2023; some LIRR traffic has been diverted to Grand Central, freeing up track slots at Penn Station.
Map of the two proposed routes and six proposed stations of the Penn Station Access project. The red line depicts planned New Haven Line service via Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (Hell Gate Line), and the green line indicates proposed Hudson Line service via Amtrak's Empire Connection.
It will be the hub for 8 miles of new tunnels blasted and drilled out of 400 million-year-old bedrock and winding their way under Park Avenue and the East River to Queens and Long Island.
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