The 7 train currently runs right through the neighborhood without stopping.
If metropolis leader get their way , a novel public passage option could be on the horizon for Hell ’s Kitchen .
At a rally and press group discussion on Tuesday , politicians include Congressman Jerry Nadler , City Council Member Erik Bottcher , and State Senator Brad Hoylman called for the MTA to resurrect long - give up plans to fetch a 7 gearing station to 10th Avenue and 41st Street . The station was once plan as part of the 7 railroad train ’s elongation to the Hudson Yards mega - development on Manhattan ’s far west side but was scrapped to save costs .
At the event , Rep. Nadler called the decision not to build the place years ago a " monumental failure " and said the recently passedbipartisan infrastructure billand funding from the urban center ’s upcomingcongestion pricing planrepresented a newfangled prospect for the neighborhood .
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" We should be ashamed that Paris and London are construct multiple train station in a short amount of time and we ’re standing in front of an unbuilt train station that should have been build a decade ago , " he say . " Even if they started this post today , it would n’t be done for many years . The cost of construction relate to many issues . As I empathise it , we have many more regulation and red tape measure call for . A existent effort need to happen to see the light the process , cut out the red mag tape , break through the barrier , and add down the costs . If we do n’t do it we ’re going to fall behind the ease of the world . "
The potential station will be evaluated as part of the MTA ’s 2025–2044 20 - Year Needs Assessment , which runs through October of next year . The MTA has several meaning projects propose or in the works , including theSecond Avenue Subway extensionin Manhattan and Governor Kathy Hochul ’s architectural plan for a newInterborough Expresstrain line connecting Brooklyn and Queens . Still , area leaders expressed optimism that they could make a case for the new 7 caravan stop .
" I can not conceive of any location in New York City that is more compelling , " suppose Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine at the event . " We ’ve already got the residents here . We ’ve already pose the growing , the housing . The day this station open it would be intemperately used . "
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