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NYC's century-old subway structures are rotting away
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Just north of Grand Central Terminal’s gleaming main concourse in Midtown, thousands of steel beams supporting the station’s train tunnels are deteriorating.
Metro-North riders looking out their train windows as they depart can catch a glimpse of Grand Central’s sprawling network of 40 tracks. Its cavernous underbelly is filled with hundreds of rusty columns and crumbling concrete slabs that hold up Park Avenue above. Those beams date back to the early 1900s — and MTA officials warn they’ve reached the end of their life.
“The condition of this artery continues to deteriorate in very significant ways,” said MTA construction chief Jamie Torres-Springer as he stood beside the terminal’s iconic clock and information booth. “The worst thing that can happen if you don’t deal with that is you have the potential for a collapse.”
The subterranean space is known as the Grand Central train shed, which is 110 years old and acts as the entry point for roughly 200,000 daily riders in and out of Manhattan. The structure narrows as it extends to 97th Street, before the tracks rise above ground. MTA engineers estimate 95% of its support beams are in “poor or marginal condition,” which is why Torres-Springer worries it could fall down.
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Manage episode 462853537 series 95357
Just north of Grand Central Terminal’s gleaming main concourse in Midtown, thousands of steel beams supporting the station’s train tunnels are deteriorating.
Metro-North riders looking out their train windows as they depart can catch a glimpse of Grand Central’s sprawling network of 40 tracks. Its cavernous underbelly is filled with hundreds of rusty columns and crumbling concrete slabs that hold up Park Avenue above. Those beams date back to the early 1900s — and MTA officials warn they’ve reached the end of their life.
“The condition of this artery continues to deteriorate in very significant ways,” said MTA construction chief Jamie Torres-Springer as he stood beside the terminal’s iconic clock and information booth. “The worst thing that can happen if you don’t deal with that is you have the potential for a collapse.”
The subterranean space is known as the Grand Central train shed, which is 110 years old and acts as the entry point for roughly 200,000 daily riders in and out of Manhattan. The structure narrows as it extends to 97th Street, before the tracks rise above ground. MTA engineers estimate 95% of its support beams are in “poor or marginal condition,” which is why Torres-Springer worries it could fall down.
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