Subway blasting nears end at 86th Street
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | The MTA takes the media on a tour of the 86th Street cavern of the Second Avenue Subway on Thursday in Manhattan. (July 11, 2013).
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The first phase of the Second Avenue subway is more than half finished, and 100 feet below the street, workers continue blasting out the 86th Street station cavern.
Blasting for the 72nd Street station finished in February, but rock-crumbling explosives will be detonated inside the 86th Street station cavern through August, with possibly more blasting in ancillary areas.
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