East Side Access tunnels meet in Queens
A group of Newsday journalists took a seven-mile subterranean MTA tour of the Long Island Rail Road's East Side Access project. Videojournalist: Patrick McCarthy (May 7, 2011) (May 16, 2011 9:51 AM)
Long Island Rail Road East Side Access project
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The Long Island Rail Road now has an unobstructed path from Queens to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.
Crews working on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $8.24-billion East Side Access project Thursday broke through the final piece of concrete in Long Island City to connect newly bored tunnels in Manhattan to newly bored tunnels in Queens.
The result is a 3 1/2-mile-long...
