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10/27/2023
Reconstruction work has begun on the 130-year-old MTA Metro-North Railroad Park Avenue Viaduct in East Harlem, New York, as areas underneath have been cleared for new foundations and columns that will support the new structure, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced yesterday.
The Park Avenue Viaduct is an elevated steel structure that carries four Metro-North tracks along Park Avenue between East 110th Street and the Harlem River Lift Bridge. Metro-North trains traveling along the Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines utilize the Park Avenue Viaduct to access Harlem-125th Street Station and Grand Central Terminal, totaling 98% of Metro-North trains.
The project's first phase calls for replacing major segments of the elevated steel structure, nearly half of which was built in 1893, to ensure it remains in a state of good repair. About $501 million of the project's $590 million cost is federally funded.
"The Park Avenue Viaduct is a critical link between Grand Central Terminal and every city, town and village that Metro-North Railroad services in the Bronx, north of New York City and in Connecticut. Brilliant engineers and builders left a structure that has lasted for 130 years, but we need to overhaul it to keep service safe for the 21st century, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said in a press release.