US EditionPhase 2 of Second Avenue Subway Expansion Moving Forward in Harlem
The $2 billion contract will add three new stations to serve 110,000 daily riders and includes tunnel boring and rehabilitating abandoned tunnels, resuming work halted 50 years ago.
- On Monday, August 18, 2025, the MTA board approved a nearly $2 billion contract to begin major construction extending the Second Avenue Subway into East Harlem.
- This project resumes a nearly century-old effort halted in 1975 due to the city's financial crisis that left the subway extension incomplete for decades.
- The extension will add three new Q-line stations at 106th, 116th, and 125th streets, serving 110,000 daily riders and connecting to other subway lines and Metro-North.
- Governor Kathy Hochul emphasized that for East Harlem residents, the era of promises has ended, while MTA Chair Janno Lieber acknowledged the community’s lengthy wait and expressed commitment to finally delivering the project.
- Early work will start later this year with tunnel boring expected in 2027, and the project aims to be complete by 2032, potentially saving $1.3 billion through new approaches and local hiring goals.
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MTA approves $2B Second Avenue subway expansion in NYC
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is moving forward with the Second Avenue Subway expansion, a project that has been promised to East Harlem for nearly a century. The MTA Board has approved a nearly $2 billion contract for the tunneling and excavation work for Phase two of the project.
MTA greenlights whopping $1.9B contract for long-awaited Second Avenue subway — and transit officials still claim it’s a savings
"I reject the premise of the question," MTA honcho Janno Lieber said when asked why a new subway tunnel would be built instead of repairing broken trains and tunnels.
New York MTA awards contract for next phase of Second Avenue Subway extension
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board voted to award a contract for tunnel boring for the Second Avenue Subway extension to East Harlem at a meeting on Aug. 18, 2025. MTA/Marc A. Hermann NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board has approved a $1.97 billion contract for tunnel boring to extend the Second Avenue Subway, a 1.5-mile addition to extend the Q Line from 116th Street to 125th Street, and then west along 125th…
Q Train Expansion Into Harlem Gets a Green Light, Thanks in Part to Congestion Pricing
A decades-delayed commitment to extend the subway into East Harlem took a significant step forward Monday when the MTA board approved a $1.9 billion contract for the next phase of construction on the Second Avenue Subway. Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared alongside MTA officials at a meeting of the transit agency’s board to tout the “transformational” plan to bring the Q line to 125th Street — more than 80 years after the elevated line that ran above S…
Second Avenue subway wins key approval from MTA board; next stop 125th St. (in 2032)
After decades of on-again, off-again promises to bring rapid transit back to East Harlem, substantive work is set to resume on the long-awaited Second Avenue subway extension. The MTA’s board unanimously approved a $2 billion tunneling contract with a joint venture between Halmar International and FCC Construction for the northward expansion of the Q line Monday, at a special session held in Harlem. As previously reported by the Daily News, the …
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