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Station entrance reopens weeks ahead of schedule
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On Monday, January 22nd, riders of the 4/5 subway line will reap some of the first benefits of the new Fulton Street Transit Center. That morning, a new entrance to the northbound 4/5 train platform will open at the corner of Broadway and Maiden Lane. The opening comes several weeks ahead of schedule, bringing with it rebuilt sidewalks and corners.
Across Broadway, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) crews began work on a new entrance for the southbound 4/5 platform earlier this month. Because that work requires extensive utility relocations, MTA and the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) have closed Cortlandt Street (from Broadway to Church Street) to vehicles through June 2007. Sidewalks remain open.
To give vehicles an alternative east-west connector, DOT has made 43-foot-wide Liberty Street, one block south, a two-way street for the duration of the Cortlandt closure.
The two new 4/5 Fulton Street entrances will help ease access to and crowding on the platform and are part of the larger Fulton Street Transit Center scheme to improve rider circulation for the nine-line station. The entire complex is scheduled to open in 2009.
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