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The new tunnel measured 100 feet (30 m) wide to accommodate the future reconstruction of the Cortlandt Street station; [34] it was otherwise designed to the same specifications as the original tunnel, with columns placed every 5 feet (1.5 m). [32] The line reopened on September 15, 2002, with trains bypassing the site of the Cortlandt Street ...
The Dean Street station was demolished as part of the rebuilding of the BMT Franklin Avenue Line, and the Cortlandt Street station of the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line was demolished and subsequently rebuilt after it sustained heavy damage caused by the September 11 attacks.
Cortlandt Street station, which sits under Church Street, sustained significant damage in the collapse of the towers. It was closed until September 15, 2002 for removal of debris, structural repairs, and restoration of the track beds, which had suffered flood damage in the aftermath of the collapse.
The New York City subway system has undergone some major changes since Sept. 11, 2001, but one station that remained closed since the national tragedy seemed like it would never reopen.
At approximately 8:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I was pushing a stroller carrying Eli, my 2-year-old son, toward the Borough Hall subway station in downtown Brooklyn.
Cortlandt Street station on a map published in 1916. The Cortlandt Street station was an express station at Greenwich Street on the demolished IRT Ninth Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It was built as a replacement for the original southern terminus at Dey Street. It had three tracks, one island platform and two side platforms.
A subway cleaner made a shocking find when they discovered a rifle in a trash can on a Lower Manhattan platform, cops said Saturday.
A connection to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub is also available at the station's south end; [55] this, in turn, gives access to the Fulton Center (via the Dey Street Passageway), the Cortlandt Street station of the BMT Broadway Line, and the WTC Cortlandt Street station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. [63]