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[KevinKorell]

Gothamist, 4/3/13:

Old South Ferry Subway Station Will Reopen Tomorrow!

The new South Ferry station is still out of commission after being devastated by Hurricane Sandy—and it's unlikely to be back for up to three years! So the MTA is going forward with re-opening the "old" South Ferry station. The MTA confirms that 1 train service to South Ferry will resume at 5 a.m. Thursday morning. Just don't forget: you have to be in the first five cars!

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[KevinKorell]

CBS New York, 4/3/13:

Old South Ferry Loop Station To Reopen Thursday Morning

More than five months after superstorm Sandy decimated it, the South Ferry Station is set to reopen.

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[KevinKorell]

YouTube video of last day preparations before the reopening of the old South Ferry loop station:

[KevinKorell]

Daily News, New York, NY, 4/4/13:

South Ferry subway station reopens to public after Sandy damage

Subway trains returned to the South Ferry station Thursday morning for the first time since Hurricane Sandy flooded lower Manhattan in late October.

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[Sloan]

MTA New York City Transit's old South Ferry Station reopened for business at 5:00 a.m. Thursday, re-establishing a subway-ferry transfer point severed since Hurricane Sandy flooded large portions of lower Manhattan late last October.

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[KevinKorell]

Here is the April 2013 update for the service restoration project on the A subway line to the Rockaways.

What they don't mention is the other segment that has been out of service since Sandy -- the part between Beach 90th Street and Rockaway Park (Beach 116th Street), below where the current H line has terminated since it was instituted 3 weeks after the storm.

[KevinKorell]

In this latest update, they now do mention that work is being done on the Rockaway Park segment, at least station work at Rockaway Park itself, a.k.a. Beach 116th Street.

[KevinKorell]

CBS New York, 5/16/13:

MTA To Restore A Train Subway Service To The Rockaways May 30

Subway service on the A line to the Rockaways will resume on May 30, more than seven months since Superstorm Sandy slammed the region.

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[KevinKorell]

WNYW-TV, Fox-5 in New York, NY, 5/16/13:

Subway to resume service to Rockaways

The MTA and Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the A train subway will run its route all the way to the Rockaways starting May 30, seven months after Superstorm Sandy washed away the track support bed, leaving tracks hanging in midair. Crews rebuilt the entire bed.

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[KevinKorell]

Here's the word straight from the MTA-New York City Transit website:

Governor Cuomo announces May 30 Restoration of Service

On May 16, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced service on the storm-damaged Rockaway line of the train will resume May 30 after an all-out, six-month MTA effort to rebuild the 3.5 mile-long stretch of the Rockaway flats including 1,500 feet of washed out tracks, replace miles of signal, power and communications wires, and rehabilitate two stations that were completely flooded.

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