Dey Street Passageway

The Dey Street Passageway or Dey Street Concourse is a tunnel being constructed in Manhattan, New York as part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Capital Construction Program to rehabilitate the Fulton Street Station and the connection to other stations nearby. The Dey Street Passageway will be under Dey Street in Lower Manhattan. The passageway will eventually link the Fulton Street Transit Center (servicing the A,C,J,M,N,R,W,Z,2, 3, 4, 5 subway lines) with the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. The tunnel is a link to connect commuters from the Fulton Street Station with the World Trade Center site which is now being developed. Many commuters are not satisfied that the link will mean an out-of-system connection between the Fulton Street station and the World Trade Center and BMT Cortlandt Street Stations.

The tunnel will be 29 feet (8.8 m) wide, it was intended to be 40 feet (12 m) wide, but due to financial costs it had to shrink in size. It will link the exit at the middle of the IRT Lexington Avenue Fulton Street Station will the World Trade Center Transportation facility.

"Since the beginning, the concourse has been an essential part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Transit Center plans. Its creation will allow around 275,000 daily subway riders to transfer between the Fulton Street/Broadway-Nassau station's nine lines to the R/W at Cortlandt Street and the World Trade Center (WTC) PATH station. The MTA also recently announced revised plans that extend the underground connector to the E platform at the WTC -- stretching the project's $844 million budget for the benefit of downtown commuters." (From Lower Manhattan's archives)

Construction

Current construction has resulted in the closure of the BMT Cortlandt Street Station. The station was closed in August 2005. The northbound platform may open sometime in late 2008, while the southbound platform will probably remain closed until the first of the new buildings at the World Trade Center site opens no earlier than in 2012. This closure enables the workers to underpin, rehabiliate, and install a free transfer to the IND World Trade Center Station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line.

Dey Street is also closed in order to build the tunnel.

Certain areas near the Millenium Hotel have been sealed due to the current construction.

References

Over Budget, Fulton Street Transit Hub Faces a Redesign (New York Times, May 23, 2006)
Shops Near Planned Transit Hub Face Eviction (New York Times, June 2, 2006)
Fulton Street Transit Center Plan Stands (New York Times, June 27, 2006)

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