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Central to the construction work on East Side Access is a rail junction in Sunnyside called Harold Interlocking — the busiest in the country, according to the MTA.
The 63rd Street Tunnel is a double-deck subway and railroad tunnel under the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens in New York City.Opened in 1989, it is the newest of the East River tunnels, as well as the newest rail river crossing in the New York metropolitan area.
The planned Penn Station Access project would send some Hudson Line trains to Penn Station along the Empire Connection, with two new intermediate stops along the west side of Manhattan. The Hudson Line is colored green on Metro-North timetables and system maps, and stations on the line have green trim.
The 86th Street Q stop is one of only a few Upper East Side subway stations that could accommodate platform doors, according to the MTA. Critics say the agency is exaggerating the challenge.
When local officials in 2019 called on the state-run MTA to keep its promise and build the Sunnyside station, the MTA responded that it could not do so until East Side Access was done.
Last week, representatives from the MTA met with Community Board 8’s Transportation Committee to discuss plans for a long-awaited project, responding to years of requests from Upper East Side ...
Within a few months of the line's opening, crowding on the Lexington Avenue Line stations on the Upper East Side was somewhat reduced. [56] East Side Access, completed in 2023, brought Long Island Rail Road service into Grand Central. With more people coming onto the East Side, increased crowding is expected on the Lexington Avenue Line ...
In conjunction with the East Side Access project, the MTA proposed two readiness projects that they said will increase capacity on the Port Washington Branch. The first was the extension of a pocket track east of Great Neck station, located between the station and where the line becomes single-tracked. The pocket track was extended eastward by ...