The (Old) South Ferry Station Will Be Opened in April
March 8, 2013 | Samer Kalaf
With the four-year-old South Ferry station getting ruined by Hurricane Sandy, the MTA’s making the situation a little better by opening up the old South Ferry station in the first week of April. Well, at least it’s better than nothing. The newer station will essentially have to be rebuilt due to all the water damage. Great!
Staten Islanders and Financial District denizens, rejoice: though repairs to the new South Ferry station, ravaged by Hurricane Sandy will still take up to three years, the old station is up and running on the 1 train as of 5AM today. In case you missed it, here's hurricane footage from…
Benjamin Kabak of the transit blog Second Avenue Sagas was recently given a media tour of Lower Manhattan's South Ferry Station, which suffered incredible damage during Hurricane Sandy and is likely to take up to three years and $600 million to repair. What he found--documented in the photos above--looks more like…
This is not a cartoon. This is real, almost. The MTA is currently testing a giant thirty-foot inflatable "plug" that when filled with air would protect cities' most vulnerable subway stops from the threat of floods and extreme weather conditions. It would, effectively, "seal off New York's subways" if natural disaster…