Rutgers Tube, which carries the F subway line under the East River between Manhattan’s East Broadway station and the York Street station in Brooklyn, was the last Metropolitan Transportation Agency under-river crossing to be rehabilitated after Superstorm Sandy hit the New York City area in 2012.
All pump tunnel and station work was allowed to proceed only during the train’s weekend outages—an aggressive schedule considering the project broke ground in August 2020 and was completed by May 2022.