The extension of the 7 subway line is outpacing the progress of a number of other big transportation projects in the city, in part because the Bloomberg administration hasn't waited for federal funding.
Bio: Eliot Brown is a reporter living in Brooklyn. He writes for The Wall Street Journal and has covered real estate and politics for The New York Observer and The New York Sun.
For more than two years now, 150 feet below the surface of the area around 34th and 11th Avenue, truckload after truckload of rock and dirt has been hauled away through what has become a giant cavern, kind of like a sub-surface answer to the Javits Center directly above. More
Posted on November 24th, 2010 7:39am
Last summer, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine and federal transportation czar Peter Rogoff and about a million other politicians gathered outside a factory in North Bergen, N.J. to break ground (ceremonially) on one of the most ambitious transportation megaprojects the region has seen in decades. More
Posted on October 5th, 2010 9:48am
