Huge transportation project rolling on under Grand Central
Contractors work on the East Side Access project beneath Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday. AP Photos/Mary Altaffer
One of the nation’s largest transportation projects is rolling forward — a Manhattan commuter rail terminal accessed through a tunnel costing $1 million per foot.
That detail was offered Wednesday by the head of capital construction for New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The terminal will allow the MTA’s Long Island Rail Road passengers to get off on Manhattan’s East Side at Grand Central Terminal.
Michael Horodniceanu, the MTA’s chief engineer on the project, led a tour of the caverns and tunnels being filled in with floors and walls, plus stairways and escalators up to Grand Central.
