NYC Stops Work to Expand Second Avenue Subway After Congestion Pricing Halted

Construction work on extending New York City’s Second Avenue subway to Harlem is on hold after Governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to indefinitely pause a congestion pricing plan leaves the nation’s largest transit system without the funds to pay for such infrastructure projects.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the city’s subways, buses and commuter rail lines, instructed C.A.C. Industries, Inc. to stop its work of relocating underground utilities along Second Avenue that would make way for future construction, Jamie Torres-Springer, head of MTA’s Construction & Development, told reporters on Tuesday during a press conference. It is the first component of the Second Avenue extension project, which will link the Q subway line from 96th Street on the Upper East Side to 125th Street.