by Joe Aiello | Northeast Field Coordinator “That kid is BACK on the escalator again!” - Brodie Bruce, Mallrats Last week, the brand new $25 billion Hudson Yards complex opened to the public. It is the largest private development in the United States (by square footage) and sits on nearly 27 acres of land in the Chelsea and Hudson Yards neighborhoods in Manhattan. Thirteen of the retail and residential center’s buildings were built over the existing West Side Yard - storage for LIRR trains. It is also home of the 34th Street-Hudson Yards station, which connects the 7 train with the new “city-within-a-city”. This all leads us to the issue at hand, as reported by New York Magazine: Based on data from a quarterly MTA report, the station has three of the ten most failure-prone subway escalators in Manhattan - including one that was out over 25 times in the three-month span. “I’m from Nepal, so I’m used to climbing mountains,” Neelima Basnet, 35, Continue reading...
