NYC Transit Dyckman Street northbound platform closes for 10 months

Written by jrood

MTA New York City Transit is closing the No. 1 northbound platform beginning Oct. 18 and continuing through August 2011 for the first phase of the Dyckman Street station rehabilitation. Uptown No. 1 trains will bypass Dyckman Street.

The general scope of work
includes repairing the stairs from the sidewalk into the station, restoring the
concrete station wall along Hillside Avenue, replacement of the stairs
connecting the control area to the platforms, repairing and painting the
ceiling, and repairing damaged tiles.

At train level, the
agency will demolish and rebuild the north and southbound platforms, demolish
and reconstruct the platform structure and canopy, install new platform
windscreens and repair the guardrails. The agency will also take this
opportunity to replace the track along the entire station length. During second
phase of the project, the southbound platform will be out of service between
September 2011 and July 2012.

Opened in 1906, the Dyckman
Street Station is of a design unique in the system and is listed in the
National Register of Historic Places. The outdoor station, situated just north
of the Fort Washington Tunnel portal, has two side platforms above a masonry
head house.

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