January 21, 2009 @ 2:29 am
My friend Jason posted this archive video from 2007 (maybe a bit earlier than that) showing the New York City skyline as it would look if the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (and all other parties involved) would hurry up and get the new World Trade Center towers built.
This coming September will mark the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and I think it’s rather embarrassing that it’s taking so long to rebuild the area.
December 12, 2008 @ 9:43 am
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!
