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2 unusual facts about Second Avenue subway


Bruce Fowle

His current work includes the New York Times building, a new School of Management at Syracuse University, the preliminary design for Manhattan’s new Second Avenue Subway, and the expansion of the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

Second Avenue Subway

After warning that failure to pass the act would doom the project, MTA chairman Peter S. Kalikow stated that "Now it's up to us to complete the job" given its approval by a 55–45 percent margin.


Properties of concrete

American Standard Testing and Consulting Laboratories, company president Alan Fortich, and five other executives admitted filing false documents on "thousands" of New York construction projects including Yankee Stadium, the Second Avenue subway, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center over 10 years.


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