"NEW YORK: This Is What Your Flooded Subway System Looked Like After Hurricane Sandy"

[applegrove]

NEW YORK: This Is What Your Flooded Subway System Looked Like After Hurricane Sandy

by Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-sandy-photos-of-new-york-subway-flooded-2012-10

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The MTA has just posted a bunch of stunning pictures from inside the New York Subway system, which got flooded, and is shut down in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

The worst impacts were Downtown/Wall Street area, not surprisingly.

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[Cal Carpenter]

1. Unreal

This is gonna take awhile.

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

2. It will take years and billion$

to restore the system to even partial functionality.

[Scootaloo]

6. Maybe not

Manhattan was a place just covered in rivers and streams. And hte funny thing is, that stuff doesn't just "go away" when you pave over it. The New York subway system has an extensive anti-flooding and pump system. Without it, the subways would become underground rivers all on their own.

So... yeah, it'll probably be expensive, but the apparatus is there to at least pick up some of the work that needs to be done.

[JackRiddler]

7. Partial functionality begins in a few hours.

A couple of East River tunnels already open. It's not that your sour scenario of "years" to restore service is impossible, but do you have any particular knowledge or an argument on offer, or is this nonchalant panic-mongering?

Details on MTA service resumption

(10/31/12) NEW YORK - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office has released details
on the MTA's resumption of mass transit services. Partial service has
been restored to Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road. Partial
service will be restored tomorrow to New York City's subways.

Subways:
- 1 trains will operate local between 242nd Street (Bronx) and Times
Square-42nd Street.
- 2 trains will operate between 241st Street (Bronx) and Times
Square-42nd Street, with express service between 96th Street and
Times Square.
- 3 trains are suspended.
- 4 trains will operate in two sections making all local stops:
· Between Woodlawn (Bronx) and Grand Central-42nd Street
· Between Borough Hall and New Lots Avenue
- 5 trains will operate express in Brooklyn between Atlantic Avenue-
Barclays Center and Flatbush Avenue.
- 6 trains will operate local between Pelham Bay Park and Grand
Central-42nd Street.
- 7 trains are suspended.
- 42nd Street Shuttle S trains will operate between Times Square and
Grand Central.
- A trains will operate in two sections making all local stops:
· Between 168th Street (Manhattan) and 34th Street-Penn Station
· Between Jay Street/MetroTech and Lefferts Blvd.
- B and C service is suspended.
- D trains operate in two sections:
· Between 205th Street (Bronx) and 34th Street-Herald Square making
all local stops
· In Brooklyn, between Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center and Bay
Parkway making express stops between Pacific Street and 36th Street
- E trains are suspended.
- F trains operate in two sections making all local stops:
· Between 179th Street (Queens) and 34th Street-Herald Square
· In Brooklyn, between Jay Street-MetroTech and Avenue X
- G trains are suspended.
- J trains operate between Jamaica Center and Hewes Street making all
local stops.
- L trains operate between Broadway Junction and rockaway Parkway
making all local stops.
- M trains operate between Myrtle Avenue-Broadway and Metropolitan
Avenue.
- N trains operate between Ditmars Blvd. (Queens) and 34th Street-
Herald Square making all local stops.
- Q trains are suspended.
- R trains operate in Brooklyn between Jay Street-MetroTech and 95th
Street making all local stops.
- Both the Franklin Avenue and Rockaway Park S shuttles are suspended.

[DreamGypsy]

3. They all look like underwater...

...stock options.

Mammon bless us all. Mammon bless the United Corporations of America.

[cliffordu]

10. ??

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Here ya go...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon

[freshwest]

4. Link to clean up pictures the next day from TWC:

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/hurricane-sandy-newyork-20121028

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Well, I guess we did get close to worst case

God help us when a Cat-5 makes a direct hit...with weather climactic change a matter of when, not IF...

[HooptieWagon]

8. Good god, are those rat carcasses in pic 4?

[cliffordu]

11. Nope - just the tears and hopes of Republicans everywhere.

[Autumn Colors]

15. That looks like floating leaves to me (nt)

[magical thyme]

16. huh? no. just dead leaves. nt

[upi402]

9. Obaman-> Fixed within the year. Rmoney-> would let NY go bankrupt

And Bush would slap him on the back for it.

[leftynyc]

12. Those pics are all from the same station

At the very tip of Manhattan. And that's the last stop on the #1 line so they can shut that stop for repairs and still keep running. I think people are going to be surprised at how fast the subway comes back. It'll be one line at a time, some stops will need extra help and may have to be skipped but I think this is going to surprise people.

It's the tunnels that are going to take a while. The Battery Tunnel (connects east side and west side at the tip of Manhattan) may take until Thanksgiving.

[Sanity Claws]

14. They're still pumping water out of stations

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Last night around 8 PM, I was a lucky one who got on an overcrowded bus in Washington Heights. That's way uptown, around 190th Street & Broadway, for folks who don't know Manhattan. I saw pumps at work, still getting water out of the A train station on Dyckman. Yikes! Still pumping out water --- when will they get to inspecting the equipment and fixing it?

Today MTA said it will restore partial service to some lines. There is no train service below 34th Street.

It's going to be a tough week.

[countryjake]

17. The pics from the MTA's own flickr photostream are amazing!

Those photos in the article you've posted come right from the MTA. Look for them on Flickr to check out all of the intensive labor and work that's being done in this monumental recovery effort. Pages and pages full of it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/