Re: (rshsdepot) New York, NY

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

The spokesman comparing Flushing station to the one at East New York was
very very bizarre
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From: James Dent / NYKGN <james.dent_@_itochu.com>
To: RSHS List (E-mail) <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Date: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: (rshsdepot) New York, NY


>From the NY Times...
>
>March 31, 2002
>The Long Wait at Train Stations, Some Say, Is for Repairs
>By JIM O'GRADY
>
>Mary Anderson lives in Flushing and takes the Long Island Rail Road into
>Manhattan several times a month to see a play or go to dinner. She used to
>walk from her house to the Broadway station at Northern Boulevard and 163rd
>Street, but in recent years she has often driven a mile to the Auburndale
>station, even though it is farther from Manhattan.
>
>"The Broadway station is deplorable," she said. "There are huge cracks in
>the concrete steps that go up to the platform. And the tunnel that goes
>under the tracks is very smelly."
>
>Ms. Anderson's assessment was confirmed by the city comptroller, William C.
>Thompson Jr. In a March 15 report on the city's 40 railroad stations, he
>said the Broadway station had broken concrete and puddles of water on the
>platform, as well as a platform shelter with "protruding rusty nails" and
>missing plexiglass.
>
>The audit also faulted conditions at the Murray Hill station, at the East
>New York station in Brooklyn, and at five Metro-North stations in the
Bronx.
>Inspectors for the comptroller visited the stations last summer.
>
>New Yorkers, Mr. Thompson said, should get more for their money from the
>Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs both railroads. "Given
>that the city paid the authority over $65 million last year for station
>maintenance, I am appalled by the conditions cited," he said.
>
>But an authority spokesman, Tom Kelly, said the report needlessly scared
the
>public.
>
>"The Broadway station is slated for renovation," he said. "And the East New
>York station has a big vandalism problem. We try to do repairs as quickly
as
>possible. To say we're ignoring this is absurd."
>
>State Senator Frank Padavan of Queens also criticized the comptroller for
>"not doing his homework." He said the state had funneled more than $25
>million to the authority over the past 10 years to renovate some Queens
>stations. The Little Neck, Douglaston, Bayside and Auburndale stations have
>been refurbished and Broadway is next.
>
>"A construction trailer just set up at the station," he said, adding that
he
>was seeking state money for the Murray Hill station.
>
>Ms. Anderson looks forward to walking to the train again, but added: "They
>should have done Murray Hill and Broadway first. They're in the worst
>possible shape."
>
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