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It feels like a whole new station - well at least a whole new entrance. For the better part of two years the 184th Street entrance to the A-train has been cut in half by a blue plywood wall, squeezing straphangers into single file lines to enter and exit the station. On Wed., Oct. 21, one by one a worker removed the panels of the wall, opening the entire spacious tunnel and entire entrance to subway riders.
The wall was put up by Thompson Development Group, the company that plans to erect One Bennett Park, a 25-story 114-condominium building that would straddle the subway entrance. Work stopped at the site with the downturn of the economy in October 2009 but the blue wall remained.
"The transit authority asked if we would take that piece down until we need it," said Developer Ruddy Thompson.
He said a sensitive monitoring system was installed behind the wall to detect any movement in the tunnel structure that might result from construction.
Thompson said there are no new developments in the status of the development project.
The Manhattan Times is the bilingual newspaper of Washington Heights and Inwood.
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