A milestone in NYMTA’s 9/ll recovery
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefRising from the destruction inflicted by the 9/ll 2001 terrorist attack, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s new, $1.4 billion Fulton Street Transit Center in lower Manhattan reached a milestone Tuesday with the opening of the 135 William Street entrance.
The Center is more than 50% complete and on schedule for a June 2014 completion. When finished, it will connect five subway stations and eleven subway lines, improving access for more than 300,000 daily riders.
“We have reached yet another significant milestone as we move forward to complete what will become a landmark transportation facility,” said MTA Chairman and CEO Jay H. Walder. “Once complete, this complex will provide our customers with a more seamless experience at this major downtown hub. The Transit Center will improve travel for hundreds of thousands of daily commuters and Lower Manhattan residents and visitors while providing a modern and convenient retail location.”
MTA said other elements of the complex continue to progress. Superstructure steel for the transit center building is slated for completion this fall. The southbound Cortlandt Street platform will reopen on or before Sept. 11. Station rehabilitation on the 4/5 lines continues and the Dey Street Concourse is structurally complete. Restoration of the historic Corbin Building is continuing inside the 1888 landmark and is expected to be complete in late 2012.
