Ground has been broken for the new substation, on West 28th Street between 8th and 9th avenues within Penn South, a 5,000-resident co-op development composed of ten towers, with an especially large senior population.
signaling on the A/C/E between Columbus Circle and High Street in Brooklyn Heights. Both CBTC and the substation — situated about halfway between existing stations at 59th Street and Greenwich Street — are expected to be installed and online by 2025; the substation project is budgeted to cost $80 million, the MTA says.
Penn South, built in 1962, is home to about 5,000 residents and is recognized as a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community.“We have elevators. If there were some kind of catastrophe, and there have been fires in substations, we would not be able to evacuate this many seniors. Seniors can’t run down 17 flights of stairs if they have a walker,” said Amy Scarola, a nine-year Penn South resident and opponent of the project, in an interview. “They said the electricity may go on and off.
Nevertheless, Penn South residents say the MTA hasn’t given adequate justification for choosing 28th Street over alternative sites they view as more appropriate for the project.
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