The new South Ferry station on the 1 subway line will open in December, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced this week. The new station will be big enough to allow all of the cars to load and unload passengers, so riders will no longer have to rush up to the front of the train.
The new station will improve the 1 train’s service throughout the city, said Bill Wheeler, director of planning for the M.T.A.
The new platforms will be straight lines, eliminating the need for the moving platforms in the current station. The new station will have three entrances: at the front of the Staten Island Ferry terminal, on a traffic island in front of the terminal and across the street by Battery Park. The M.T.A. may preserve part of the old station.
Wheeler showed Community Board 1’s W.T.C. Redevelopment Committee pictures of the station Monday night, but he said he was saving one detail for an official unveiling: the station’s new artwork.
When Wheeler pinned the station’s completion around the third week of December, committee chairperson Catherine McVay Hughes said, “Sounds like a holiday present.”
—Julie Shapiro
