New York – NYC Subway Station Reopens After Superstorm Sandy Flooding

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    The 1 train pulls into the South Ferry Station, Tuesday June 27, 2017, in New York. The station reopened to riders nearly five years after Superstorm Sandy flooded the station with 15 million gallons of saltwater in October 2012. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)New York – A New York City subway station has reopened nearly five years after Superstorm Sandy flooded it with 15 million gallons of water.

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    The South Ferry station on the No. 1 line reopened Tuesday after more than $340 million worth of repairs.

    Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees and contractors in hard hats cheered as the first train rolled into the pristine new station at the southern tip of Manhattan.

    The station was just 3-years-old when Sandy struck in October 2012, destroying electrical and mechanical systems and with a mix of seawater, sewage and debris.

    The damage forced MTA officials to reopen the older, outmoded South Ferry station that the new station had replaced in 2009.

    The old South Ferry station, which first opened in 1905, had room for only the first five cars of a 10-car train.

    The station provides access to the Staten Island ferry as well as boats to the Statue of Liberty and other destinations.

    Plumber Don Geba, who boarded the first train leaving the newly reopened station, said the new station is an improvement over its predecessor.

    “It was a big inconvenience for a long time so it’s nice,” said Geba, who lives on Staten Island. “Three thousand people coming off a ferry getting on to five cars at the old station was difficult.”

    MTA officials say measures to protect the station from future storms include retractable flood doors at the entrances and reinforcement of other entry points for water including vents, manholes, hatches and air ducts.

    The new station opened at noon just as MTA officials were investigating a derailment about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north, in Harlem. The derailment caused only minor injuries, but service disruptions were widespread.


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    grandbear
    grandbear
    6 years ago

    Five years to rebuild one station.It would probably take 200 years to rebuild the whole system even using the tunnels that were put there 120 years ago. The whole management is guilty of not performing their jobs.

    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    6 years ago

    Typical government ineptitude with minority subcontractors to boot as the new affirmative action giveaway no wonder Mta is a joke.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    6 years ago

    Five years ago? Seems like yesterday. I remember that they shut the subway down in advance of the storm. One commentator here asked why, since the rain was not yet very heavy.

    6 years ago

    What good is reopening one station? The entire system is in need of billions of dollars in upgrading, maintenance and repairs; look what occurred yesterday, with the derailment, and dozens injured!