Lecture: Engineering the MTA’s East Side Access Project

When
June 11, 2008   6:00 pm   
Where
New York Transit Museum
Boerum Pl. & Schermerhorn St.
Brooklyn

Commuters coming into Penn Station on the West Side have long hoped for easier access to their East Side jobs. When completed, the East Side Access Project will bring the Long Island Rail Road into Grand Central Terminal, serving approximately 160,000 customers a day. In conjunction with the New York Transit Museum's exhibition Tools of the Trade, Alan Paskoff of MTA Capital Construction will discuss the tools best suited to construction conditions, tunnel boring machines working to link Grand Central Terminal to the existing 63rd Street Tunnel and LIRR facilities in Long Island City.