Historic, Archaeological, and Cultural Resources APPENDIX G G.1 Section 106 Effects Assessment and Relevant Correspondence G.2 Phase IA Studies and Relevant Correspondence G.3 Draft Programmatic Agreement G.4 Historic Architectural Resources Background Study (HARBS) and Relevant Correspondence G.5 Project Initiation Letter (PIL) Relevant Correspondence G.6 Miscellaneous Correspondence PENN STATION ACCESS PROJECT: Environmental Assessment and Section 4(f) Evaluation May 2021 Penn Station Access Project: Environmental Assessment and Section 4(f)Evaluation Appendix G. Historic, Archaeological, and Cultural Resources G.1 SECTION 106 EFFECTS ASSESSMENT AND RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE MTA Metro-North Railroad Penn Station Access Project Preliminary Environmental Assessment Section 106 Effects Assessment Prepared for: Prepared by: Lynn Drobbin & Associates, Historical Perspectives, Inc., and July 2019 Penn Station Access Project: Preliminary Environmental Assessment Section 106 Effects Assessment Contents 1. Introduction ...............................................................................................................................1 2. Project Description ................................................................................................................... 5 2.1 PROJECT NEED ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 PROPOSED SERVICE ............................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.3 PROPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS .................................................................................................... 5 2.3.1 Stations .................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.3.2 Other Infrastructure Improvements.................................................................................................................................. 9 3. Legal and Regulatory Requirements ....................................................................................... 11 3.1 INVENTORY OF RESOURCES ........................................................................................................................................... 11 3.2 ASSESSING EFFECTS ............................................................................................................................................................. 11 3.3 ADVERSE EFFECT FINDING ............................................................................................................................................ 12 4. Consulting Parties and Resource Organizations .................................................................... 13 4.1 CONSULTING PARTIES ....................................................................................................................................................... 13 4.2 RESOURCE ORGANIZATIONS ......................................................................................................................................... 15 5. Methodology ............................................................................................................................ 16 5.1 DETERMINATION OF THE AREA OF POTENTIAL EFFECT .............................................................................. 16 5.1.1 Historic Architectural Resources Methodology ............................................................................................................ 16 5.1.2 Archaeological Resources Methodology ......................................................................................................................... 17 5.2 IDENTIFICATION OF RESOURCES ................................................................................................................................ 18 5.2.1 Historic Architectural Resources...................................................................................................................................... 18 5.2.2 Archaeological Resources .................................................................................................................................................. 18 5.3 RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION UPDATE ...................................................................................................................... 18 5.4 HISTORIC RESOURCES SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................. 18 5.4.1 Historic Architectural Resources...................................................................................................................................... 18 5.4.2 Archaeological Resources .................................................................................................................................................. 22 5.5 IDENTIFICATION OF EFFECTS ....................................................................................................................................... 26 5.5.1 Summary of Potential Effects on Eligible Historic Architectural Resources .......................................................... 26 5.5.2 Summary of Effects on Potential Archaeological Resources ...................................................................................... 27 6. Effects Assessment ................................................................................................................. 30 6.1 PROPOSED STATIONS ......................................................................................................................................................... 30 6.1.1 Hunts Point Station ............................................................................................................................................................ 30 6.1.2 Parkchester-Van Nest Station ........................................................................................................................................... 34 6.1.3 Morris Park Station ............................................................................................................................................................. 42 6.1.4 Co-op City Station .............................................................................................................................................................. 46 6.2 BRIDGES ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 49 6.2.1 Amtrak Hell Gate (HGL) Line Bascule Bridge over Pelham Bay and the Hutchinson River (AG 15.69-15.85) ................................................................................................................................................................ 49 6.2.2 Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95) Corridor over the Sheridan Expressway (I-895), Bronx River, Bronx River Avenue and Amtrak Hell Gate Line (HGL) (Sheridan Viaduct) (AG 11.99) ............................................... 53 6.2.3 New York Westchester & Boston (NYW&B) Railway Anchor Bridge Starlight Park, North of East 174th Street (AG 11.83) ..................................................................................................................................................... 57 6.2.4 Amtrak Hell Gate (Northeast Corridor) Line Bascule Bridge over the Bronx River (AG 11.40) ........................ 58 6.2.5 IRT No. 6 Subway Truss Bridge over Westchester Avenue, Amtrak Hell Gate Line (HGL) and Bronx River (AG 11.28) .................................................................................................................................................... 63 6.2.6 Lafayette Avenue Bridge over Amtrak Hell Gate Line (HGL) (AG 10.30) ............................................................. 64 i Penn Station Access Project: Preliminary Environmental Assessment Section 106 Effects Assessment 7. Inapplicability of the Criteria of Adverse Effect ..................................................................... 66 7.1 APPLICATION OF THE CRITERIA OF ADVERSE EFFECT ................................................................................... 66 7.1.1 Historic Architectural Resources...................................................................................................................................... 66 7.1.2 Archaeological Resources .................................................................................................................................................. 68 7.2 HISTORIC RESOURCES WITH NO EFFECT AS A RESULT OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT .................... 68 7.3 HISTORIC RESOURCES WITH NO ADVERSE EFFECT AS A RESULT OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 69 8. Conditions to Minimize Harm ............................................................................................... 70 8.1 BRIDGES ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 70 8.2 STATIONS ..................................................................................................................................................................................