Plotch is a former MTA employee who worked on the Second Avenue line and is now an academic at Saint Peter’s University. “As one of the MTA chairs said back in the 1970s, ‘Ever is a long time.’ ” In fact, it’s a legitimate question to ask whether New York will ever build a new subway line again. Not only is the Second Avenue Subway unlikely to pick up construction again next year, continuing progress of the 8.5 miles of track running down Manhattan’s east side from 125th street to Hanover Square, it’s not particularly likely to be completed in many of our lifetimes. “They said they’d start building it next year.” “I called yesterday,” Plotch told me in March.

London is putting New York to shame as the city that dreams bigĬarolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler feud over credit for NYC's 2nd Avenue subwayĮvery once in a while for fun, Phil Plotch likes to phone the MTA’s Second Avenue Subway Community Information Center - a permanent storefront on 125th Street - to ask when the next phase of the mass transit project will begin. MTA's consultant bill for Second Ave Subway was double tunneling cost MTA scales back Second Avenue subway add-on, but price tag still hefty $6.3B

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