MTA Begins Design Work For New Station At 41st And 10th
Previous plans for a new subway station at 41st Street and 10th Avenue were scrapped about six years ago due to funding concerns, but those plans may have new life.
The MTA has begun preliminary design work and is preparing a conceptual design study for the station, which would serve as an extension of the No. 7 line. The subway stop would be planned for a partially city-owned block on 10th Avenue and between 40th and 41st streets, Crain’s reports.
The plans were originally scrapped due to fear it would add $500M to the already $2.4B extension of the 7-line. Current estimates on the project have pegged the cost would double to as much as $1B. No plans are set in stone that the station will actually come to life this time, but the MTA’s study will tell bidders where and how much space they’ll need to leave for an eventual station.
Plans for the station have apparently taken on a new life as a byproduct of the Port Authority’s decision to move forward with a new bus terminal about two blocks away at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. That project will help to improve the flow of people around the massive Hudson Yards redevelopment, a project that continues to grow. [Crain’s]
