AJ of JGD Posted September 22, 2018 Share #476 Posted September 22, 2018 Any schedule or date on when the and will return to making stops 163rd Street-Amsterdam Avenue? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4 via Mosholu Posted September 22, 2018 Share #477 Posted September 22, 2018 1 hour ago, AJ of JGD said: Any schedule or date on when the and will return to making stops 163rd Street-Amsterdam Avenue? Most likely by the end of this month. If not this month, then October. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ of JGD Posted September 23, 2018 Share #478 Posted September 23, 2018 2 hours ago, 4 via Mosholu said: Most likely by the end of this month. If not this month, then October. Thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabanamaner Posted September 24, 2018 Share #479 Posted September 24, 2018 Well, the construction walls at 163rd have been removed. The station actually looks a lot better and I dig the new art that was installed. The stairs leading to the 163rd street entrance/exit have been removed on both platforms, essentially confirming that this exit won't reopen anytime soon. Quite a waste of a pretty large mezzanine, I feel it would be pretty easy to install elevators there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainfan22 Posted September 25, 2018 Share #480 Posted September 25, 2018 163rd street station will reopen Thursday afternoon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union Tpke Posted October 4, 2018 Share #481 Posted October 4, 2018 72nd Street has reopened. http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/72-st-bc-station-reopens-after-major-repairs-steel-and-concrete-structure 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted October 4, 2018 Share #482 Posted October 4, 2018 19 minutes ago, Union Tpke said: 72nd Street has reopened. http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/72-st-bc-station-reopens-after-major-repairs-steel-and-concrete-structure Here's a picture of the outside area. I'm particularly interested in seeing this one because I'm on the Upper West Side a lot in this area either coming to or from the BxM2, and the old station was disgusting. I used to avoid it and walk down to 66th for the . Source: https://www.westsiderag.com/2018/10/04/72nd-street-subway-station-reopens-with-yoko-ono-sky-mosaic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Around the Horn Posted October 4, 2018 Author Share #483 Posted October 4, 2018 The downtown side is mostly blue plywall because the tiles aren't finished... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted October 4, 2018 Share #484 Posted October 4, 2018 3 minutes ago, Around the Horn said: The downtown side is mostly blue plywall because the tiles aren't finished... So why not keep the station closed until it's done? So retarded. They rush the work and then it looks like crap, like 110th. Rushed the station and had water running everywhere. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union Tpke Posted October 4, 2018 Share #485 Posted October 4, 2018 4 minutes ago, Around the Horn said: The downtown side is mostly blue plywall because the tiles aren't finished... Hooray! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted October 4, 2018 Share #486 Posted October 4, 2018 What's funny is at 163rd street, I read somewhere that they didn't put in any benches anywhere, and there was an elderly guy that was so upset because he had a long wait for the train (what else is new with the ) and he had nowhere to sit. You can't make this stuff up. Spend months rehabbing the station and no benches. Maybe that was done intentionally, to keep out any homeless people. Who knows. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted October 4, 2018 Share #487 Posted October 4, 2018 59 minutes ago, Around the Horn said: The downtown side is mostly blue plywall because the tiles aren't finished... 55 minutes ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said: So why not keep the station closed until it's done? So retarded. They rush the work and then it looks like crap, like 110th. Rushed the station and had water running everywhere. Ugh. I'm all for getting these projects done on time and I applaud their efforts to keep to the posted schedules they gave, but I'd much rather a little bit of schedule slippage to actually finish the project than have partial closures for weeks after in order to reach 100% completion. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteriousBtrain Posted October 4, 2018 Share #488 Posted October 4, 2018 (edited) What happened to being closed for 9 months and look better rather than 4 months with more work to be done? Edited October 4, 2018 by MysteriousBtrain 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted October 4, 2018 Share #489 Posted October 4, 2018 Same thing that happened to FASTRACK apparently. Remember when that was supposed to cut down weekend and late night reroutes on the affected lines? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech And Transit Posted October 5, 2018 Share #490 Posted October 5, 2018 They really should've finished tiling the walls and installing the proper lights before opening. I hope those lights on the 72nd Street side are temporary because they don't match the rest of the station. Also, if anyone got one of the brochures, it incorrectly states that this station has USB ports. Anyways, here's a before and after video: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union Tpke Posted October 5, 2018 Share #491 Posted October 5, 2018 28 minutes ago, Tech And Transit said: They really should've finished tiling the walls and installing the proper lights before opening. I hope those lights on the 72nd Street side are temporary because they don't match the rest of the station. Also, if anyone got one of the brochures, it incorrectly states that this station has USB ports. Anyways, here's a before and after video: What happened to the closed staircases? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Vandelay Posted October 5, 2018 Share #492 Posted October 5, 2018 Checked it out today. The work on the IND stations is incredibly shoddy compared to what they did on 4th avenue. Tiles are already falling off the wall on the 72nd end. (The same was true at 110, and they fixed it, but still.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Vandelay Posted October 5, 2018 Share #493 Posted October 5, 2018 1 minute ago, Union Tpke said: What happened to the closed staircases? The closed staircase was previously behind a tiled wall on the upper level. It remains so, with slightly less of a seam. On the lower level, it is boarded up, much like a sizable portion of the rest of the platform. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union Tpke Posted October 5, 2018 Share #494 Posted October 5, 2018 2 minutes ago, Art Vandelay said: Checked it out today. The work on the IND stations is incredibly shoddy compared to what they did on 4th avenue. Tiles are already falling off the wall on the 72nd end. (The same was true at 110, and they fixed it, but still.) Any other problems? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union Tpke Posted October 5, 2018 Share #495 Posted October 5, 2018 Just now, Art Vandelay said: The closed staircase was previously behind a tiled wall on the upper level. It remains so, with slightly less of a seam. On the lower level, it is boarded up, much like a sizable portion of the rest of the platform. They are just boarded up, not tiled up? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Vandelay Posted October 5, 2018 Share #496 Posted October 5, 2018 1 hour ago, Union Tpke said: They are just boarded up, not tiled up? The whole wall is boarded over- You can't see if there is anything beyond that covering the stairs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N6 Limited Posted October 7, 2018 Share #497 Posted October 7, 2018 On 10/4/2018 at 6:42 PM, Via Garibaldi 8 said: What's funny is at 163rd street, I read somewhere that they didn't put in any benches anywhere, and there was an elderly guy that was so upset because he had a long wait for the train (what else is new with the ) and he had nowhere to sit. You can't make this stuff up. Spend months rehabbing the station and no benches. Maybe that was done intentionally, to keep out any homeless people. Who knows. I believe they have some standing benches from what I saw in the video of the station. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted October 7, 2018 Share #498 Posted October 7, 2018 10 minutes ago, N6 Limited said: I believe they have some standing benches from what I saw in the video of the station. Yes standing benches... What a novel idea for people who need to sit. You can’t make this stuff up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Around the Horn Posted October 7, 2018 Author Share #499 Posted October 7, 2018 There's normal benches at 163rd so I don't know what that guy is talking about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted October 7, 2018 Share #500 Posted October 7, 2018 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Around the Horn said: There's normal benches at 163rd so I don't know what that guy is talking about. This is what he is talking about. Those aren't normal benches. They're standing benches, and for someone who is elderly and needs to sit forget it. I see that they have normal benches further down the platforms but maybe they weren't installed at the time or maybe they were occupied by other people. Either way dumb concept. Just have regular benches throughout the platform. Edited October 7, 2018 by Via Garibaldi 8 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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