After being closed for about 4 years, the MTA has re-opened the northbound platform of the Cortlandt Street station on the Broadway line. The southbound-side remains closed due to WTC construction. It's not a huge milestone, but it's a bit of tangible progress in a slow-going affair.
A great thing about living in Brooklyn Heights is that it has a ridiculous amount of subway coverage. I can go to work on a different line every day of the week, not having to walk more than 5 minutes on either side, and this opening makes my short commute even quicker.
Now I don't have to get off at City Hall, and walk back. Just for kicks, I rode to Cortlandt on Monday, the first weekday since the opening, and I would say about 40 people got off at the stop with me at 8:45 AM. No gum on the floor yet, either. So, it seems that opening the platform when they could, rather than waiting for the whole deal to be completed (still years away), made good sense (something the MTA doesn't always exhibit).
A big part of the transit construction downtown is related to the Fulton Street Transit Center, and the fine transit blog Second Avenue Sagas, has lots of coverage of the starts/stops/change/start-agains of this project.
As it happens, I work right across the street, with a good view down into the site and it occurred to me, people might be interested in seeing the building progress (now that that is actually happening). With my new fondness of digital photography, I'll be taking pictures and I'll either put them up here as well as giving them to Ben at SAS to use.
Here's one I took this morning (apologies for a bit of window-reflection in the shot, I'm new at this).
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