The Fulton Transit Center is scheduled to fully open in 2014

Though construction of the Fulton Street Transit Center once had its obstacles, the project has remained on schedule and on budget -- and on track for full completion in June 2014, with several prior milestones.

The project’s latest details were shared at this week’s Community Board 1 meeting, with Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) program executive Uday Durg reporting that the main building’s steel is complete, and glass façade installation is on track to wrap up next month, including the iconic oculus.  (Read more about the “solar reflector shell” here.)

It’s plain to see the progress at the site, with the oculus topped out at 110 feet above street level, and supporting steel in place for the “interstitial” building on Broadway between the main Transit Center structure and the historic Corbin Building next door. That slender structure is essential for the mechanical and safety features of the landmark 1889 building,

The Corbin Building rehabilitation is proceeding with façade repair and cleaning, with some sections of the ornate terra cotta being refabricated in Buffalo, and soon to be shipped back to Lower Manhattan for installation. The MTA expects to open the Corbin Building’s ground-level retail spaces by the end of 2012, along with a new street-to-subway escalator from John Street in November 2012.

At Dey Street, the new entry house glass has been installed, and crews are working to complete the interior walls and flooring on the Dey Street Concourse below. The entry house, concourse, and rehabilitated 4/5 subway platform are slated to open in July 2012. The rebuilt entrance at the northwest corner of Broadway and Fulton, outside St. Paul’s Church, will reopen this spring.

Construction of the new east-side entrance at 150 William Street is on track for completion this fall, with the new elevator outside 129 Fulton Street, at the northeast corner of Nassau and Fulton, likely to open mid-summer. That new entrance will make the J/Z platforms ADA compliant. However, the J/Z trains will begin bypassing the station at times starting in early March through late summer 2012 in order to complete the work (specific details will soon be announced).

Along the A/C mezzanine, glass tiles, illuminated advertising and wayfinding panels, ceilings, and utilities are being installed. Work should conclude there by March 2013. The A/C connection to the station’s west side -- to the 4/5 platforms, Dey Concourse, and R train Cortlandt Street station -- will begin easing commuter transfers in winter 2012/2013.

The Fulton Transit Center upper floors will house 70,000 square feet of retail

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