Manhattan subway extension opens in booming neighborhood
NEW YORK (AP) – New York City’s first new subway station in a quarter-century has opened.
City officials cut the ribbon Sunday for the No. 7 line leading from Times Square to Manhattan’s far West Side at 34th Street.
The extension is expected to bring more than 30,000 riders a day to a neighborhood where construction is underway for the Hudson Yards high-rise complex.
Mayor Bill de Blasio told hundreds of guests at the inauguration that the gleaming No. 7 station is part of what he called the “renaissance” of a once-desolate industrial area. A short walk away is the popular High Line elevated park built on defunct rail tracks.
The $2.4 billion extension was funded by the city under de Blasio’s predecessor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.