Thanks to the American Planning Association’s Student Representatives Council (APA-SRC) in partnership with the MTA Capital Construction program, I had the opportunity to take a tour of the 63rd Street Station upgrade that’s part of the 2nd Avenue Subway project. The APA-SRC has been giving tours of the Second Avenue Subway project to residents and students as part of a community outreach program. While the underground scenes of the Second Avenue Subway and the 7 Line Extension were beautifully documented for Untapped Cities by one of our writers last year, our opportunities for photography were more limited this time due to new policies. What I want to focus on instead is how the tour revealed an entire underground world with its own sets of boundaries and politics–that being the demarcations between contracting firms below ground, and the thin line between construction and the existing subway system. Photos from MTA Capital Construction The… Read More
Thanks to the American Planning Association’s Student Representatives Council (APA-SRC) in partnership with the MTA Capital Construction program, I had the opportunity to take a tour of the 63rd Street Station upgrade that’s part of the 2nd Avenue Subway project. The APA-SRC has been giving tours of the Second Avenue Subway project to residents and students as part of a community outreach program. While the underground scenes of the Second Avenue Subway and the 7 Line Extension were beautifully documented for Untapped Cities by one of our writers last year, our opportunities for photography were more limited this time due to new policies. What I want to focus on instead is how the tour revealed an entire underground world with its own sets of boundaries and politics–that being the demarcations between contracting firms below ground, and the thin line between construction and the existing subway system. Photos from MTA Capital Construction The… Read More