By The Editorial Board, amNewYork; May 11, 2018
Far below the city, beneath the busy roads of Queens and Manhattan’s East Side, the East River and Roosevelt Island, and even the subway tracks, there’s a hive of activity in a train tunnel that now stretches from Sunnyside to the bowels of Grand Central Terminal.
There, in a new cavernous space, train platforms, curved-beam ceilings and escalators are in place. One can imagine the thousands of commuters who will travel down those escalators to Long Island Rail Road trains. If all goes as planned, and with the project called East Side Access, that’s an enormous if, we’re four and a half years away from a new LIRR terminal below Grand Central.
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