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   Peter T. Daniels to John Levine   
   Re: "first new station in decades"   
   12 Sep 15 21:56:13   
   
   From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 12:23:23 AM UTC-4, John Levine wrote:   
   > In article <4b55af1d-0c16-476d-bba7-3b9e9eed8e5c@googlegroups.com>,   
   > Peter T. Daniels  wrote:   
   > >34th & Eleventh opens at 1:07 tomorrow afternoon.   
   > >   
   > >Who's going to use it before anything in the Yards opens?   
   >   
   > Press reports say there's plenty of people in offices out there who   
   > are thrilled they won't have to walk all the way to Penn Station   
   > this winter.   
      
   I think the M34 goes to Chelsea Piers (I regularly use the M34A between   
   the Port Authority and the Graduate Center and the SIBL Library).   
      
   > >How long ago did Roosevelt Island and Queensbridge open? "Decades"?   
   >   
   > October 29, 1989.  Time flies, huh?  The connection from Queensbridge   
   > to the Queens Blvd. line didn't open until 2001, but that was just   
   > track, no new stations.   
      
   Well, _technically_ 2 1/2 decades is "decades," but not really.   
      
   Before that I suppose it was the E extension / J-Z cutback.   
      
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