Here’s Footage of NYC’s First New Subway Line in Nearly 100 Years

The above gif just look like a subway , doing incisively the matter metro do . But this is no ordinary geartrain — it ’s the first glance at an infrastructure project first proposed almost a one C ago .

First discussed in 1919 ( and then quick abandoned due to the Great Depression matter ) the Second Avenue underpass will run down Manhattan ’s East Side , providing better transportation for whoever it is that can afford to live along the East River , while us schmucks in the outer borough prepare for theL gearing closedown . It ’s the first new line to be constructed in NYC since 1932 , and YouTuberDj Hammersmanaged to snag some footage of a test gear running through the Lexington/63rd station .

When completed , the Second Avenue line will be dubbed the deoxythymidine monophosphate train ( meaning several stations in upper Manhattan will beQTstops . ) After years of rumors , tunnel photos , and of course delays , the liothyronine is scheduled to open for divine service on December 30th of this year .