The Fulton Street Subway Hub will be a large subway junction-station servicing 13 different subway lines. It is being constructed to provide better access to the subway lines, better access and help revitalize Downtown Manhattan’s economy*. The project is expected to be completed by 2010.
*Downtown Manhattan is currently the 4th largest central business district in the USA after Midtown Manhattan, The Loop in Chicago & Downtown D.C.
I may sound like I have a fixation with NYC…I do ;-) but there are plenty of reasons why. One of them is sheer population density of this place. Think of it this way…the city’s night time population is estimated (according to the last US Census estimate) @ 8.4 million +/-. The day time population is estimated to be much higher than that! According to the source:
Just to get warmed up, chew on this -- from 8:00AM to 8:59 AM on an average Fall day in 2007 the NYC Subway carried 388,802 passengers into the CBD on 370 trains over 22 tracks. In other words, a train carrying 1,050 people crossed into the CBD every 6 seconds. Breathtaking if you ask me.
Over this same period, the average number of passengers in a vehicle crossing any of the East River crossings was 1.20. This means that, lacking the subway, we would need to move 324,000 additional vehicles into the CBD (never mind where they would all park).
Truly fascinating!!!
Imagine walking down the streets of NYC and in between the awesome skyscraper-filled view and you are a bunch of utility wires hanging from the poles. Not that they are awful. Some of the suburbs have hanging utility wires and they look fine. But in NYC that is not something you would expect.
The practice of burying wired utilities started in the late 1800’s when the mayor ordered all utility wires be buried in light of the catastrophic effects of The Great Blizzard of 1888. This blizzard was blamed for approximately 1.2 billion in damages (2008 figures) and a paralyzed city which had no power & railroad services. At the same time it left many people confined to their homes. In some cases for up to a week.
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The New York City Sanitation Department will be testing green garbage trucks starting November in the borough of Queens. It will be the first production intent diesel electric hybrid truck in the U.S. designed specifically for Class 8 heavy-duty applications and meeting the EPA2010 emission regulations. The company has produced vehicles for the City of New York for 100 years.
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Is chump-change…ain’t it? The house is located at (get this) 75-1/2 Bedford Street (that is seventy-five & a-half) in the West Village. It’s 3-stories, 990 square feet & dates back to the mid-1800’s.
The Department of Buildings data shows 362 stalled construction sites in NYC, as of July 8th, and that includes Staten Island (Juz kiddin’ staten islanders…)
It is one of the most used methods of transport in NYC…when it works! and now it’s about to be remodeled.
The MTA, the agency in charge of the public transportation system in and around New York City, has recently placed an order for 90, very handsome and sharp looking, articulated buses. The new buses will feature exit sensors which will allow a passenger to place his/her hand on the door and voila!…the door opens. Nova, the company in charge of manufacturing the buses, has built a plant in Plattsburgh, NY which will employ 172 workers.
Good news for those that live up there. Upstate New York, as opposed to downstate, has a very poor economy which, if it where a separate state, will put it alongside Arkansas.
[from Press Republican thru Second Avenue Sagas]
Pictures from SubChat
The High Line is an abandoned 1.5 mile (2.33 km) section of an old elevated train line belonging to the defunct West Side Line. It rides along the lower west side neighborhood of New York City in Manhattan between 34th Street near the Javits Convention Center and Gansevoort Street in the West Village. The High Line was built in the early 1930s by the New York Central and has been unused since 1980. It was in a state of disrepair, although the elevated structure is basically sound. Below are some pictures of the rebuilt process along with opening day photo and some historical pictures…enjoy ;-)
(read more information about the High line in wikipedia)
Historical
(from highline.org)
Rebuild
(from highline.org)
Opening Day
from Gothamist)
