Photo: Ben Yankee on Flickr
Sometime next month, a new South Ferry Subway station will open in Lower Manhattan directly beneath the current South Ferry station. The new Subway station is larger and does away with the curved platform at the current South Ferry Subway stop. In addition, the new station will also be long enough to accommodate an entire Subway train, thus rendering the need to be in the first 5 cars a thing of the past (for those who don’t know, the current South Ferry station can only fit the first 5 cars of a Subway train).
As you can see in the illustration below from the NYT, the new station will not require Subway trains to make a big loop around Lower Manhattan in order to go back uptown. Instead trains will simply just head uptown and switch tracks in the tunnel.
And probably the best thing about this new station is the ability to transfer to the R/W trains!
If you want to get a glimpse of the shiny new station, you can check out this Flickr photoset. If I were you, I’d head down to the current South Ferry Subway station to snap some pictures before they close the station down for good next month!
That’s probably where all those new train cars I’ve been seeing every week are going. For the last couple weeks I’ve been seeing MTA subway cars in the wide load waiting area on the NJ side of the GWB.
I think the mta should of built a new south ferry terminal ages ago. I think passengers got sick and tired of having to her scrething cars. Also the old station would wreck the new cars the mta is supposed to put on the line in the future