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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 25 May 2016 - 03:07 PM

NYCT news release, 5/25:

 

Fulton Center Connection to World Trade Center PATH Station to Open Thursday
New Access Point Links 9 Subway Lines with Port Authority Trans-Hudson Rail Service

 

 

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today announced that beginning tomorrow May 26 at 5 p.m., customers seeking to connect between Fulton Center’s Dey Street Concourse and Port Authority’s World Trade Center transportation hub will be able to use the underground passage to reach the PATH station, Battery Park City and World Trade Center Towers 1 and 4.

 

The Dey Street Concourse, a 350 foot-long, 27 foot-wide pedestrian tunnel, allows customers to walk underneath Dey Street between Broadway and Church Street without exiting the station complexes. The connection to the Dey Street Concourse and the PATH World Trade Center station is accessible at the bottom level of Fulton Center.

 

The opening of the subway-level link to the PATH station is a vital connection for customers who transfer between the New York City Transit subway system and the PATH rail system. It offers customers a safe alternative to heavily trafficked streets aboveground, decreasing the number of pedestrians who previously had to walk through existing World Trade Center site-related construction and heavy vehicular traffic on narrow downtown streets. The connection also provides a viable option for ADA customers, who can use Fulton Center’s 10 escalators and 15 elevators, to access the PATH station, which is also fully accessible.

 

The pedestrian transfer between Fulton Center and the PATH World Trade Center station cements both transportation hubs as major retail centers and civic spaces of a revitalized Lower Manhattan. Fulton Center, at the southeast corner of Broadway and Fulton Street, offers 65,000 square feet of retail and commercial space with a fully digital presence and a distinctive glass-lined street level mezzanine.

 

The Dey Street Concourse, in particular, is lined with several large multimedia displays that screen digital advertisements, provide travel information such as weather and time, and host rotating new media artwork commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. A future link in the passageway will connect the Line to Fulton Center via an entrance from the World Trade Center subway station terminus. The line at the Cortlandt St Station will also be accessible once reconstruction of that station is complete in 2018.

 

Fulton Center opened in November 2014 after a major reconstruction to integrate five subway stations serving nine lines that historically competed against each other when the subway system opened a century ago. The new Fulton Center allows customers to easily transfer between lines through well-lit mezzanines and visible sightlines for connections. In 2016, the transit center also became the first subway station in the city to receive an LEED silver certification for its environmentally friendly design, sustainability and energy efficiency, while its centerpiece artwork, “Sky-Reflector Net,” has received notable public art commendations for its innovative design incorporating natural and artificial lighting.

 

Up to 300,000 customers use the Fulton Center transit hub daily.

 



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Posted 26 May 2016 - 09:56 AM

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MEDIA ADVISORY - PORT AUTHORITY LEADERSHIP TO HOST THANK YOU EVENT FOR WTC TRANSPORTATION HUB WORKERS

Date: May 25, 2016
 

May 26 event also will mark the opening of the Dey Street Connection to Fulton Center, providing PATH riders with direct access to New York City subway lines

The Port Authority will host a thank you event tomorrow, May 26 at 2 p.m., at which the agency’s senior leadership will thank the thousands of dedicated union workers and other staff for their efforts to build the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.

The event also will mark the opening of the eastern portion of the Transportation Hub Oculus – the iconic centerpiece of the sprawling Santiago Calatrava designed transit facility – and the opening of the Dey Street Connection to Fulton Center. The connection will, for the first time, provide PATH riders with direct connections to nine New York City subway lines – 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, Z and R. Links to the E and No. 1 subway lines will be available in the coming months.

The western portion of the Oculus opened on March 3, providing the 50,000 riders that use the PATH facility daily with below-ground, climate controlled access to a new entrance at the corner of Liberty and Church streets, a few blocks from Wall Street. In late spring, the new access from the Oculus to the corner of Vesey and Church streets will open. In the coming months, the pedestrian plaza surrounding the Hub will be opened, providing access to the facility from the streets surrounding the facility. All of the PATH platforms at the new facility will be completed by the end of this year.

The event will be held in the Transportation Hub Oculus. Media interested in attending should RSVP by 10 a.m. tomorrow to Mercedes Guzman in Media Relations at lmguzman@panynj.gov. Press credentials will be required to get into the event.






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