Here’s Why It Took a Century and $4.5 Billion to Add Just Three Subway Stops in New York City
‘Almost Inevitable’
The Second Avenue line looked like a sure thing—in 1929. In 2017, the first short leg of it will finally appear. Here’s what (mostly didn’t) happen in all that time.
The Second Avenue Subway—or lack thereof—has been the laughingstock of New York for nearly 100 years: the critical project that the most ambitious city in the world never could build.
