Showing posts with label Upper East Side. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Upper East Side. Show all posts

August 4, 2011

Swingin' Second Avenue Subway Workers

Ben over at Second Avenue Sagas posted this video of an MTA crooning during the lunch hour.  In neighborhoods on the UES where the noise, dirt and general nuisance of subway construction have been driving residents nutty, this guy intends to have his music calm the savage upper east-sider.  It just may be working....

March 23, 2010

Life On The Upper East Side Is A Blast

For the last few months, the MTA has been blasting through the city streets of the Upper East Side as work on the fabled Second Avenue subway picks up.  Second Avenue Sagas posted some startling video of a recent controlled explosion that took place last Friday.  The force of the blast looks like a minor earthquake and sounds even worse.  But this is the work that needs to be done as they prepare a so-called "Launch Box" for the Tunnel Boring Machine that will carve out the new "T" line deep under the city's streets.  Completion is schedule for....oh, somewhere around 2016.  Yikes.