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Chapter 1: Project Purpose and Need Chapter 1: Project Purpose and Need A. INTRODUCTION The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), in cooperation with MTA New York City Transit (NYCT), propose to construct the Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan, to provide much-needed transit access to East Side residents, workers, and visitors and to improve mobility for all New Yorkers. The proposed project analyzed in this Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) is a full-length Second Avenue Subway from Harlem to Lower Manhattan, recommended after careful consideration of a full range of alternatives in the Major Investment Study (MIS) for Manhattan East Side Transit Alternatives Study (MESA) and public and agency response to the MESA MIS and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) published in 1999. As described in detail in Chapter 2 (“Project Alternatives”), as well as Appendix B (“Development of Alternatives”), the design of the full-length Second Avenue Subway has been further refined since completion of the DEIS, resulting in the project alternative analyzed in this SDEIS. This chapter discusses the need for the proposed Second Avenue Subway. It identifies the project, defines the current and future travel problems on the East Side and in the city, describes the project’s background and current planning context, and presents the project’s goals and objectives. B. IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT The Second Avenue Subway would be a new, two-track, approximately 8.5-mile rail line extending the length of Manhattan’s East Side from 125th Street in East Harlem to Hanover Square in the Financial District. This new subway line would serve communities in East Harlem, the Upper East Side, Midtown, Gramercy Park/Union Square, the Lower East Side, Chinatown, and Lower Manhattan. The added capacity of the Second Avenue Subway would improve service for passengers traveling into and through the East Side corridor on the new service as well as on the existing Lexington Avenue Line. The new line would make the neighborhoods of the East Side more accessible not only to those who live there, but to visitors and workers traveling from other parts of New York City as well. With a new connection at 125th Street, the project would also improve regional access to the various East Side neighborhoods from the existing Metro-North Railroad. The Second Avenue Subway would actually provide for two subway services in this corridor. The first would be a full-length Second Avenue route operating between 125th Street and Hanover Square; 16 new stations would serve this area. The second service would operate along Second Avenue from 125th Street to 63rd Street, where it would divert west along the existing 63rd Street Line and stop at the existing Lexington Avenue-63rd Street Station; it would then join the existing Broadway Line via an existing connection and serve existing express stations along Seventh Avenue and Broadway before crossing the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn. 1-1 Second Avenue Subway SDEIS Passengers traveling to Lower Manhattan on this route could transfer for local service to destinations south of Canal Street. PROJECT AREA The project area is defined as the portions of Manhattan that would be both served by the proposed new subway and affected by its construction, including those communities that would experience expanded service on the Broadway Line. As shown in Figure 1-1, the project area encompasses the entirety of East Harlem, the Upper East Side, East Midtown, the Lower East Side, and much of Greenwich Village, SoHo, Tribeca, and Lower Manhattan. It also includes the portions of Clinton and West Midtown east of Tenth Avenue and the portions of Chelsea east of Eighth Avenue. The project area encompasses such diverse land uses as: • The central business districts (CBDs) of Midtown and Lower Manhattan, which are the nation’s largest and third-largest office districts, respectively; • The civic center, which includes City Hall and the federal complex, as well as the United Nations, and numerous foreign consulates; • The major transit hubs at Grand Central Terminal, Penn Station, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal; • The city’s world-renowned Broadway theaters and other major international and domestic tourist destinations in Times Square, the Theater District, the Lower East Side, and Lower Manhattan; • Concentrations of department stores and specialty retailers in Herald Square, Union Square, and SoHo and along Fifth and Madison Avenues; • Cultural institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art; • The academic campuses of New York University, Hunter College and other colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY), Rockefeller University, The Cooper Union, and the Fashion Institute of Technology; • The hospital campuses of Beekman, Beth Israel, Bellevue, New York University, St. Luke’s- Roosevelt; New York Presbyterian, Lenox Hill, Mount Sinai, Metropolitan, and North General, and others; • Concentrations of financial institutions, such as the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the Commodities Exchange, and Nasdaq; and such corporations as American Express, J.P. Morgan Chase, Bear Stearns, and Goldman Sachs; and • The densely populated residential communities of East Harlem, Carnegie Hill, Yorkville, Sutton, Kips Bay, Murray Hill, Gramercy Park, East Village, and the Lower East Side, which include a mix of high-rise condominiums, apartment towers, brownstones, tenements, and publicly assisted housing projects. TRANSIT SERVICE IN THE PROJECT AREA Only the Lexington Avenue Line (./0) provides full north-south rapid transit subway service on the East Side. South of 64th Street, several east-west subway routes (1 9 : @ B F GJ K ) cross the area and connect to or continue on as other north-south 1-2 Chapter 1: Project Purpose and Need services. The B F K trains provide north-south subway service along Broadway from Lexington Avenue and 59th Street to Lower Manhattan. Several subway lines serve the Lower East Side (6 8 : > A E ` GJ K N ),1 but they do not offer full north-south service up and down the East Side, and their stations are at some distance from residents in the easternmost portions of the neighborhood. Lower Manhattan is served by most of the city’s through routes to Brooklyn. However, there is no north-south service east of Nassau Street/Broad Street, in the center of the island. On the surface, most of the project area is characterized by a regular grid of north-south avenues and cross streets. Bus service is available north of Houston Street on all major north-south avenues (except Park Avenue north of Grand Central Terminal) and all major crosstown streets. South of Houston Street, the older, irregular street pattern necessitates a more limited and complicated organization of bus routes, all of which are at greater risk of schedule delays due to traffic conditions on the narrow streets. C. PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION HISTORIC OVERVIEW Manhattan developed rapidly during the 19th century, its growth supported by expanding transit service. Elevated train lines, also known as “els,” brought New Yorkers to Manhattan’s center from northern Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. By the 1890s, the Sixth and Ninth Avenue els (which joined to create one service north of 53rd Street) provided rapid transit to the West Side, and the Second and Third Avenue els served the East Side. All lines offered connections to the Bronx and were supported by trolleys riding along the streets. A separate network of elevated lines in Brooklyn served Lower Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge. The first two decades of the 20th century saw construction of subway lines in Manhattan, and by 1920 those traveling to, through, or from the East Side could choose one of three north-south rapid transit lines: the Lexington Avenue subway or the Second or Third Avenue els. The el lines were of major importance to the City of New York; in 1921 alone, they carried 384 million passengers. As the subway network expanded, however, and lines were added to and from Queens, Manhattan’s els became less and less popular with New Yorkers. They began to shut down in the 1930s, and by 1942 the Second Avenue el was discontinued with the promise of a new subway line on that route. The Third Avenue el closed in 1955. Although the Sixth and Ninth Avenue els were replaced by the Sixth and Eighth Avenue subway lines on the West Side, no such improvement occurred on the East Side. For nearly 50 years, only the Lexington Avenue Line (./0) has provided north-south rapid transit service through the East Side. The closing of the els took place during a time of great growth in the city. The city’s economy was strong through the late 1940s, the 1950s, and the early 1960s. The removal of the noise, shadows, and barriers created by the els helped to fuel a development boom on the Upper East 1 6 8 service temporarily terminates at 34th Street-Herald Square due to construction on the Manhattan Bridge and is replaced by E and K trains in Brooklyn, which operate on the Broadway Line. A temporary shuttle service operates between West 4th Street and Grand Street. 6 8 service will be fully restored upon completion of the current phase of the Manhattan Bridge rehabilitation in 2004, at which time the Grand Street Shuttle (G) will be discontinued. 1-3 Second Avenue Subway SDEIS Side (high-rise residences) and in East Midtown (primarily office buildings). This growth coincided with a sharp reduction in industrial uses in the “far” East Side along the waterfront and construction of a number of public and publicly assisted housing projects on the Lower East Side and Upper East Side, and in East Harlem.
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