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Great to see that the open atrium space is already visible in the construction pics.
     
     
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Great to see that the open atrium space is already visible in the construction pics.
??? I see a hole, and alot of the steel is just temporary.
     
     
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i'm going down into the dey st connector beginning of april, maybe i can sneak some photos
     
     
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i'm going down into the dey st connector beginning of april, maybe i can sneak some photos
Maybe? Maybe? You will do nothing but take photos, and post them here...
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The MTA has requested bids for the Fulton Street Transit Center Enclosure.
Bids are due on 4/15.

http://mta.info/nyct/procure/contracts/A-36125sol.pdf
     
     
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i wish they'd thrown the money and effort into the 2nd ave subway rather than upgrading fulton, but its great to finally see progress around the site.
     
     
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Well it's easier to build something in one place instead of tearing up the entire east side, rearranging building foundations, and placing subway stations and entrances. The SAS is great in my opinion, but it's been going on for decades now. It can wait four more years.
     
     
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Visible Progress at the Fulton Transit Center
Work is progressing at the Fulton Street Transit Hub


May 21, 2010

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For several years now, the progress at the Fulton Street Transit Center has been notable inside the station, below the streets, and behind construction fencing. But over the past several weeks, structural steel has been literally shaping the ground floor of the future Transit Center building at Fulton and Broadway -- beginning the process that will define its actual three-story shape above the fence line starting next winter.

The main building is the centerpiece of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) much larger Transit Center project. Stretching from William to Church Street, the hub promises to clarify three long blocks of subterranean passageways linking four subway platforms.


For riders, several benefits are already complete or will roll out in the coming years. Among them are new stairways on the 2/3 platform, the new southern entrances to the 4/5 platform, and the expanded Cortlandt Street northbound platform.

In addition, natural light already is seeping through construction fencing on the 4/5 platform, creating a sneak peek of the future station’s illumination. It was designed specifically to “funnel” sunlight through the main building’s roof “oculus” and down to underground corridors -- partly as an added wayfinding aid.

MTA planners are now working on the last portions of the Transit Center’s construction. Crews reached a major milestone this spring when they completed underpinning of the historic Corbin Building, which was key to stabilizing that structure for surrounding construction, as well as to incorporate it into the complex as a new entry point on John Street. Along with new escalators to be installed in its base, the entire Corbin Building will undergo a renovation starting next month.

Contractors also have mobilized to complete the Dey Street underground concourse, building the new entrance house at Dey and Broadway, and renovating the 4/5 station. In coordination with Port Authority work on the west side of Church Street, contractor Skanska Construction will rebuild the R/W Cortlandt Street southbound platform, which has been closed for several years during World Trade Center mass excavation.

Another milestone is that the MTA has awarded all of the contracts to complete the complex, with the final one -- to erect the Transit Center main building -- going to Schiavone Construction. That work is expected to begin in fall 2010, following substructure completion.

With the various contracts on schedule and fully funded, the MTA expects the new Fulton Street Transit Center to be complete by mid-2014.
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Fulton Transit Center Rapidly Taking Shape Behind Downtown Construction Fence

June 18, 2010
By Julie Shapiro

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From the corner of Fulton and Broadway, progress on the massive Fulton Street Transit Center is largely invisible.

But behind the blue plywood construction fence, the $1.4 billion train station is rapidly taking shape.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has already demolished the confusing tangle of ramps that once connected the subway platforms.

Workers are replacing narrow passageways with broad, column-free spaces that will join 10 subway lines with the World Trade Center PATH trains.


And the MTA is about to award the contract for the transit center’s glass-domed building, which will filter light down to the subway platforms when it opens in June 2014.

“This is the exciting part,” said Michael Horodniceanu, president of capital construction for the MTA, as he gave DNAinfo an exclusive tour Thursday. “It’s almost like raising a child. You just see it moving forward and becoming more functional.”

One of the most challenging pieces of the project — the underpinning of the 121-year-old Corbin Building — will be done as soon as next week. The foundation of the nine-story building originally went down only 20 feet and was not strong enough to keep the building standing during the construction of the transit center next-door.

The MTA added a layer of concrete 35-feet deep beneath the original foundation to stabilize it. It will also restore many of the building’s original features, including the grand marble staircase and terra cotta exterior.


The Corbin’s two foundations — the original in crumbling brick, the new one below it in smooth concrete — are clearly visible from the adjacent construction pit, where the Fulton Transit Center is rising.

“We’re so far beneath the foundation, while the building is still standing,” Horodniceanu said, standing about 30 feet below street level and pointing upward. “That’s engineering!”

A construction project this big cannot go forward without some inconvenience to subway riders. Trains on the A/C line often skip the Fulton Street stop, known as Broadway-Nassau, on weekends, and the 4, 5 and R lines could see some outages as well.

Horodniceanu said the service interruptions will continue over the next year but then will mostly be done, as work moves more and more above grade.

Several pieces of the sprawling station are scheduled to open before the official completion in 2014. Next year, the MTA plans to open the southbound R station at Cortlandt Street and a new entrance on William Street.


In 2012, the renovated 4/5 station is scheduled to open, along with a new entrance on the ground level of the Corbin Building, with retail and escalators leading up from the platforms to the street.

Horodniceanu smiled on Thursday as he predicted straphangers’ reaction to the new station four years from now.

“I think they will do, ‘Wow,’” Horodniceanu said. “It will be a wow effect.”


Michael Horodniceanu, center, MTA president of capital construction, stands on the station's sunny lower level with Uday Durg, right, program executive, and Bharat Kothari, construction manager.









A glass dome, called an occulus, will top the new station and direct sunlight down to the platforms.












The Dey Street underpass will connect the main station to the R, E and PATH trains to the west.



The concrete box of the Dey Street underpass is complete. Air ducts awaiting installation line the walls.



The Corbin Building towers over the construction of the transit center. The circular shape of the station's atrium is already visible in the steel beams.
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Took long enough, but still has another 4 years to go.
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Excellent progress they've made.
It's amazing they've gotten as much done as they have. They really have done a lot "behind the scenes".
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A Transit Center grows at Fulton St.



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August 17, 2010

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The MTA announced today a milestone at the site of the future Fulton St. Transit Center. Both the underpinning for the Corbin Building and the foundation for the Fulton Street Transit Center are complete, and progress remains on pace for a 2014 opening of the long-awaited complex.

“We have reached a significant milestone by completing the foundation of what will become a landmark transportation facility,” Michael Horodniceanu, president of MTA Capital Construction, said. “Anyone who has had to navigate the myriad of ramps, stairs, and confusing signs at Fulton Street understands the importance of providing our customers with a more seamless experience at this major downtown hub. The Transit Center will improve travel for hundreds of thousands of daily commuters and lower Manhattan residents and visitors while providing a modern and convenient retail location.”

When completed, the $1.4 billion transit center will vastly improve the Lower Manhattan transit experience for over 300,000 daily customers. Both street access and station navigation will be vastly improved, and the upgrades include better circulation and reduced overcrowding for the A/C platform as well as a new underground concourse that will connect the R at Cortlandt St. and the 4/5 at Broadway with the PATH Hub and the World Financial Center. The completed transit center will also feature 25,000 square feet of new retail.

With the foundation complete, the MTA will now began to build up the center itself, and in a few months, the structure will begin to peak above the blue construction fence.

In the press release touting this milestone, the MTA praised Skanska, the contractor, for keeping the project on time. Of course, original plans called for the then-$750 million transit center to open in late 2009. “On time,” then, is all relative.
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Both the underpinning for the Corbin Building and the foundation for the Fulton Street Transit Center are complete, and progress remains on pace
for a 2014 opening of the long-awaited complex.
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The building with the Easy Spirit store is being torn down.

     
     
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MTA Sidewalk Work Continues Near Dey Street

Sepember 15, 2010

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Work resumed Monday following the September 11 construction embargo

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) construction crews have resumed sidewalk reconstruction work on the west side of Broadway, between Dey and Cortlandt Streets. The work began in July, with crews closing off the sidewalk area to perform key rebuilding work on the 4/5 subway platform below.

Crews temporarily reopened the work zone to the public during the September 11th construction embargo, but restarted on Monday, September 13th. Pedestrians are again relocated to a temporary walkway, while MTA workers rebuild the curb, the “Canyon of Heroes” sidewalk markers, and final sidewalk restoration through mid-October 2010.

At that time, similar work will follow on the western sidewalk of Broadway between Dey and Fulton. The 4/5 Fulton subway station rehabilitation is part of the Fulton Street Transit Center project.
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Seems like the Corbin Building could use a good cleaning...
A little backstory on how it ties in to the Fulton Transit Center...

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/03...rbin-building/



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For years, the city has neglected this beautiful building. Just twenty feet wide, it extends 160 feet down John St. and at eight stories, was one of the tallest buildings in Lower Manhattan when it opened 111 years ago. Its ties to transit extend back to its origins as it was named for Austin Corbin, the man responsible for uniting all of the Long Island-based rail lines under the LIRR umbrella.

Before Sept. 11, the building had fallen into a state of disrepair. Time had taken a toll on Francis Kimble’s intricate designs, and after Sept. 11, the building had to undergo extensive repairs. When the MTA announced initial plans for the Fulton St. Transit Center, the Corbin Building was to be demolished. After a public outcry over that plan in 2003, the MTA decided to rethink the future of the Corbin Building and asked architects to incorporate it into updated plans for the hub.
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A little more...

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A peek inside Corbin as subway construction proceeds



By Julie Shapiro
March 5 - 11, 2010

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To picture what the Corbin Building looked like when it opened more than 100 years ago, a little bit of imagination is required.

Rising eight stories plus the penthouse at the corner of Broadway and John St., the stately terracotta building was one of the tallest in the city when it opened in 1889.

“This used to be a skyscraper,” said Michael Horodniceanu, president of capital construction for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, as he stood on the roof of the Corbin Building this week. As Horodniceanu spoke, he was surrounded by the shadows of more modern skyscrapers, from the 1913 Woolworth Building to the recently topped out Beekman Tower.

While Horodniceanu can’t return the Corbin Building to its prominent place in the city’s skyline, he is working to restore everything else about the building as part of the M.T.A.’s Fulton Transit Center project.
The Corbin Building abuts the site for the future glass-domed Fulton St. station, and was once scheduled for demolition, but preservation groups banded together in 2003 and got the M.T.A. to preserve the building instead.

While the M.T.A. was initially against saving the building, the project team now could not be more enthusiastic about the historical details they are uncovering.

“This is once in a lifetime for us,” said Uday Durg, program executive for the M.T.A., as he and Horodniceanu gave Downtown Express a tour this week. “This is not the kind of building you see every day. For an engineer, this is the highlight for us — for our whole career.”

The Corbin Building, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, still has many original features, including brick arches and terracotta ornamentation. When M.T.A. workers pulled down part of one wall, they discovered an old cast-iron fireplace.

The M.T.A. has not done much work yet in the aboveground portion of the building since using eminent domain to remove more than 40 commercial, residential and office tenants several years ago. A mattress and a broken mirror coated in dust still sit in one of the penthouses, and bundles of telephone wires still protrude from the walls of the office floors below.

But the belowground levels of the building are a hive of activity, as the M.T.A. builds a new foundation of steel and concrete to ensure that the building remains safe.

“The foundation left quite a lot to be desired,” Horodniceanu said. “It was great for the time it was built, but not for today.”

The building’s brick supports originally went down only 20 feet below street level, and the building started sinking as the M.T.A. worked on the adjacent Fulton Transit Center. M.T.A. crews are digging down another 35 feet to underpin the building, a painstaking process that should be complete in August.

Then the preservation work will begin: The ornate reddish-brown facade will be cleaned; the intricately decorated grand staircase will be restored; and hidden historical gems, like the original boiler, will be displayed. The building will also get a new roof, new windows and a storefront restored to look just like it did in 1917.

“The whole idea is to expose people to the beautiful construction done so many years ago,” Durg said as he pointed out brick arches in the building’s basement. “Nobody builds like this anymore.” Straphangers will eventually see those brick arches and the century-old boiler as they ascend a massive escalator from the Fulton St. and Broadway/Nassau subway platforms through the Corbin Building to street level.


The underground Dey St. corridor will also connect with Cortlandt St. and other World Trade Center stations a block away.

Horodniceanu hopes to have the escalator running by the end of 2012, when the restoration of the Corbin Building is scheduled to be complete. He also hopes to open 2,500 square feet of retail in the building’s ground floor by then as well. But the upper floors likely won’t be occupied until 2014, when the full station connecting 12 subway lines is scheduled to open.

Horodniceanu said that in addition to retail, the M.T.A. is considering everything from condos to a museum for the Corbin Building, though New York City Transit is likely to get at least some of the space for offices. And it’s possible that the Christian Science Reading Room, which used to be on the ground floor, will return.

The underpinning and restoration of the Corbin Building will cost $75 million, not including design fees. The M.T.A. just awarded a $59 million contract for the bulk of the work to Judlau Contracting last month. The entire transit center costs $1.4 billion and is fully funded out of the capital budget thanks to $424 million in federal stimulus money, which enabled the Corbin Building work to move forward.

The Corbin Building is named for Austin Corbin, a New York banker and businessman who founded the Long Island Rail Road and commissioned the building. Architect Francis Kimball’s artful plans won immediate acclaim, and Kimball went on to design many of the city’s other early skyscrapers, made possible by the invention of the elevator.

Horodniceanu noted that the Corbin Building has now come full circle under the ownership of the M.T.A., which runs the Long Island Rail Road.

“It stays in the family,” he said with a smile. “We are bringing this building back to life.”
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