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Posted by #5 - Dyre Ave on Sat Feb 6 16:25:45 2010, in response to Re: Essex-Delancey Station, posted by 33rd Street on Sat Feb 6 13:08:43 2010. That's wonderful how much the area has changed and grown, but people who live and visit the area have gotten along just fine for the past seven years with just the F stopping there late nights and weekends. The V doesn't run late nights or weekends and never has. Strange how you don't seem to have a problem with that.Also, much of the area's growth and change began years before the V went into service. Providing additional 2nd Avenue at Houston Street was never the MTA's purpose for implementing the V train. Their purpose was to funnel some Queens Boulevard express riders away from 53rd Street. They accomplished that by rerouting the F train into the newer 63rd Street tunnel and running the V through the 53rd St tunnel, which had the added side benefit of allowing some Queens Boulevard local riders direct service to the busy 53rd Street corridor. The only reason the V terminates at 2nd Avenue is because that is the only place to terminate it in Manhattan without fouling up B and D service. By the way, the neighborhood map on The Ludlow's own web site shows the building to be about the same distance away from Essex & Delancey as it is from 2nd Avenue. So the Ludlow's tenants can still catch the V train at Essex, if the MTA does decide to extend the V over the Williamsburg Bridge. Essex may be a little further away, but it ain't that much further away (I know, I've walked it). |
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