No 7 Subway Extension to Hudson Yards

Mayor Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Quinn (Photo Credit: Edward Reed)

City officials announced the completion of the tunnel mining for the extension of the Number 7 subway from 42nd Street and 7th Avenue at Times Square to 34th Street and 11th Avenue in the Hudson Yards area in Midtown West Manhattan. 

The $2.1 billion project, funded by the City and managed by the MTA, is the first subway expansion in decades, creating nearly 500 construction jobs.

Work will soon begin on station entrances and finishes and support facilities such as ventilation and traction power substations. The new service is expected to open in December 2013 as scheduled.

The West Side Yards site is the largest undeveloped single piece of property in Manhattan. The mixed-use master-planned community will be developed by Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group and includes 12 million square feet of commercial and residential development featuring state-of-the-art sustainable design.

The master plan features approximately 5,000 affordable and market-rate residences in nine residential buildings, three world-class corporate headquarters sites, a major destination retail complex including an anchor department store, a 300 room five star and 1,000 room convention hotel, multiple cultural facilities, and a new 750-seat public school, all carefully planned around 12 acres of grand public open space.