63rd Street Tunnel
in New York, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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The 63rd Street Tunnel carries the 63rd Street Lines of the New York City Subway under the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens. It is the newest of the East River tunnels, and the newest rail river crossing in the New York metropolitan area. Construction of the 63rd Street Tunnel began on November 24, 1969, and the tunnel was holed through beneath Roosevelt Island on October 10, 1972. However, completion of the tunnel and its connections was delayed by New York City's fiscal crisis of the 1970s and it was not used in revenue service until 1989.The tunnel's lower level will carry Long Island Rail Road trains following the expected completion of the East Side Access project in late 2022, a half-century after the hole through.
