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Renovations to Chambers Street J/Z station are off the table
Gothamist had done a story a while back about renovations that were coming this year to the Chambers Street J/Z station — actually called the BMT Nassau Loop — so I followed up with the MTA. Turns out that project is a casualty of the failed congestion pricing program, which the MTA tells me is “paused,” but without saying till when.
From the MTA press office: “This project at Chambers St has been placed on hold as a result of the pause on the congestion pricing program. Please note that Governor Hochul has said she will find a way to replace revenue congestion pricing would have generated.”
The request for proposals for the project sought design/build services to complete historically sensitive repairs (the station is on the National Register of Historic Places), replace the stairs, install new artwork, and construct new track walls.
The station has two mezzanines at the north and south ends, and two active island platforms and one inactive center island platform with two active tracks and two non-revenue tracks. The MTA recently installed elevators servicing the north-bound and south-bound platforms from the Brooklyn Bridge Station.
The station was part of a phased construction of the David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building, since they share architectural elements.
It sure could use some TLC…
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Never forget that Hochul betrayed the constituents of the city that funds much of the state, and who helped put and keep her in office.
And she’s such a clueless and feckless politician that she couldn’t foresee Republicans now running to say they stopped her from implementing CP, so her whole ‘save suburban D seats’ gambit won’t even work.
Just look at Canal and Broome Streets every afternoon. Who wants to live like this?
It’s time to rid ourselves of her and Adams.
Amen.
In a city (and state) with so many talented, thoughtful and hard-working people, it’s unreal that we’re left with these two mediocre politicians as our representatives at the very top of the administrative chain.
Every day that we navigate the awful, awful suburban traffic (mostly large/expensive SUVs w a single person inside) that clogs our streets, takes our parking, pollutes our air, and endangers our children — all without paying a dime in tax to this city for that particular privilege — I can’t help but thank Congestion Kathy for her service.
Hochel’s stall on Congestion Pricing was a bridge too far. She lost my vote to anyone save a Republican running for office.
Completely agree. I was neutral on her prior to this whole debacle. She definitely lost my vote forever.
Get off your horse / out of your bubble. Hochul served the will of the vast majority of State constituents, and plurality of New York City ones, as proven by polls. Kudos to her!
Congestion pricing AKA MTA money grab should be voted at the ballot box referendum, where in its current form it would go down flames, not forced upon us.
I was not going to weigh in on this because it’s a dead horse at this point. But Sashok’s comment here is the only one that makes any sense to me.
The CP plan was misbegotten from the first. Its intentions were arguably positive, but that the plan did grievous harm to a good many people who would be made to support it was completely obvious.
And when the MTA starts signaling virtue it has never, ever in its history earned, you’ve got to realize something is awry. “Money grab” is 100% apt, and now the MTA will peeve and pout and be more inactive than before while hiding behind dropping the poorly conceived CP plan as an excuse.
So…….other then “historic restoration” which is code for overpriced money grab, how many people does that station actually serve?
It sits under the Municipal Building, is less than a block from City Hall, is right next to a bevy of courthouses, city offices, and the federal building, is within walking distance of two high schools, and walking distance of Chinatown the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Woolworth Building. And it has available transfers to the 4, 5, and 6. So it’s a hub for workers, students, and tourists. That should tell you all you need to know to answer that question.
Just under 20,000 people a day use this station. It was the 34th busiest subway station in the city in 2023.
This station’s platform level has all the charm, warmth (and sense of impending danger) of the ancient subway scene in “Beneath The Planet of the Apes.”
“Politico reported […] that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies had signaled his worries over the program’s electoral consequences for Democrats come November.
“Democrats feared that congestion pricing could become for Republicans in 2024 what crime was in 2022, when Hochul’s party lost four House seats in downstate purple suburban districts—where car-dependent voters live. Staring down the barrel of a repeat electoral embarrassment that could potentially spill over into New Jersey and Connecticut districts, the governor decided that backlash from congestion-pricing advocates would amount to less of a political hit in November than motivating suburban auto commuters, public employees, Republicans, and other opponents to come out to the polls.”
https://www.city-journal.org/article/kathy-hochuls-shaky-governance