Painful options for some Brooklyn subway riders amid repairs
The lone subway tunnel connecting some of Brooklyn’s hippest, youngest neighborhoods to New York City’s commercial heart in Manhattan will either be closed entirely for 18 months, or see extremely limited service for three years, under two possible plans for repairing damage caused by Superstorm Sandy.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the city’s subway system, is trying to decide which of the two potentially painful scenarios it will inflict on people who rely on the L train to get across the city’s East River. Work would start in 2019.
The agency was scheduled to present the options in the first of two public hearings Thursday night in Brooklyn. Another meeting was to be held in Manhattan.