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MTA: Big delay for Second Avenue subway

The Second Avenue Subway will be delayed yet again, nearly a century after it was first proposed. Rising construction costs have pushed back the long-awaited companion to the overcrowded Lexington Avenue line until June 2015, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Wednesday.

Commuters on the packed downtown platform at the 51st and Lexington station were in no mood to sympathize during...

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