Tag: New York City Subway

Construction Equipment

Watch construction crews bore and blast below New York City to build the 2nd Avenue subway line

“New York City is one of the toughest places to build anything.” That quote from NYC subway train service supervisor Bill Wall, more than anything else, is what stands out in the excellent video below from the New York Times which chronicles the difficulty the city and its construction crews have had in building the new […]

October 22, 2014

Construction Equipment

Construction photos of NYC’s Second Avenue Subway are otherworldly

“When you look at my pictures, you do get a sense that you’re in the center of the Earth. Sometimes it’s like another planet.” That’s what Patrick Cashin, a staff photographer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, told Flickr when the photo sharing website recently interviewed him for a blog post on the astounding photographs […]

June 17, 2013