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Home » Blogs » NY Construction Central » East Side Access Rail Project Steams Ahead Under NYC's Grand Central
Eydie-cabarrubia

Eydie Cubarrubia is ENR’s New York regional editor. She has spent more than two decades editing, writing and producing award-winning business news and features content for The Guardian News & Media, New York Daily News and other publications.

East Side Access Rail Project Steams Ahead Under NYC's Grand Central

East Side Access construction

Workers are shown constructing one of eight tracks of the East Side Access project. ASSOCIATED PRESS

December 31, 2018
Eydie Cubarrubia
KEYWORDS commuter train / East Side Access / Long Island / MTA / New York
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New York commuters between Manhattan's East Side and Long Island are chugging a little closer to relief as human workers have replaced boring machines on construction of the East Side Access commuter rail project.

A massive hub is being built 15 stories below New York City's famed Grand Central Terminal,  with ceilings as high as six stories and dozens of high-speed escalators that will lead down to a 350,000-sq-ft LIRR concourse, which will have two levels of platforms with eight tracks.

"We can all see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel," said Janno Lieber, who came to the state-run Metropolitan Transit Authority a year ago, told the Associated Press about how he'll bring the $11 billion project to completion by a new deadline in four years.

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