The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan for a Second Avenue Subway calls for many street entrances that are somewhat reminiscent of the famous Art Nouveau entrances in Paris.
According to a presentation recently made to the Second Avenue Subway Task Force of Community Board 8, several of the entrances will have angled glass roofs supported by white beams that are higher at the entrance than at the rear.
The open canopy design covers escalators that go to the subways and the horse-shoe-shaped bases of the canopies is considerably longer than most existing subway entrances in the city. The canopies will not employ curved glass and some entrances will not be free-standing but incorporated into existing buildings such as at the northeast corner of 69th Street and Second Avenue.
The October 28, 2008 document presented to the community board covers the 96th, 86th and 72nd Street entrances, elevators and ancillary buildings in the first phase of the long-planned new subway line from 96th to 63rd Street. Eventually, the line is planned to extend to Lower Manhattan.
According to a presentation recently made to the Second Avenue Subway Task Force of Community Board 8, several of the entrances will have angled glass roofs supported by white beams that are higher at the entrance than at the rear.
The open canopy design covers escalators that go to the subways and the horse-shoe-shaped bases of the canopies is considerably longer than most existing subway entrances in the city. The canopies will not employ curved glass and some entrances will not be free-standing but incorporated into existing buildings such as at the northeast corner of 69th Street and Second Avenue.
The October 28, 2008 document presented to the community board covers the 96th, 86th and 72nd Street entrances, elevators and ancillary buildings in the first phase of the long-planned new subway line from 96th to 63rd Street. Eventually, the line is planned to extend to Lower Manhattan.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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