10th Avenue (IRT Flushing Line)
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10th Avenue
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| Planned New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||
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| Address |
41st Street & 10th Avenue New York, NY 10001 |
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| Borough | Manhattan | ||
| Locale | Hell's Kitchen | ||
| Coordinates | 40°45′32″N 73°59′46″W / 40.759°N 73.996°WCoordinates: 40°45′32″N 73°59′46″W / 40.759°N 73.996°W | ||
| Division | A (IRT) | ||
| Line | IRT Flushing Line | ||
| Services | no regular service | ||
| Structure | Underground | ||
| Tracks | 2 | ||
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| Opened | Proposed | ||
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Next  north |
Times Square: future | ||
| Next south |
34th Street–Hudson Yards: future | ||
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10th Avenue is a proposed station, first planned as part of the 7 Subway Extension for the IRT Flushing Line (7 <7> trains) of the New York City Subway. It would be at 10th Avenue and 41st Street and have two tracks and two side platforms if built. Under the last plan, there would be one street-level entrance for each direction, and no crossovers or crossunders to allow free transfer between directions. The station could be completed if funding became available to build it. Various neighboring projects proposed from 2009 to present have included completion of the station.
It was originally planned to be constructed as part of the 7 Subway Extension but the station's construction was dropped in 2007. The station would originally have had two exits from the northbound platform to 40th Street—one at Hudson Boulevard and one east of 10th Avenue—and one from the southbound platform to 42nd Street east of 10th Avenue.
A $450 million option to build a shell for the station was included as part of the October 2007 contract, requiring action by the city within nine months to have a shell built as part of the initial contract. Reports in late December 2007 indicated that the postponed station might be partially built, should the City of New York and the MTA come to terms on the additional financing for the station shell. In February 2009, the MTA announced that it would build the station if the agency received sufficient funds from the federal economic stimulus package. Otherwise, the station would be cut to keep costs under budget, as the 7 Subway Extension was already costing $2.4 billion.
Developers and local residents created a petition to construct the shell, fearing that the opportunity for a station would be lost once tunnel excavation was completed. In June 2010, the city announced it was seeking funding to assess the feasibility of constructing the station at a later date, using a two-platform, two-entrance model without an underground connecting passage. This type of station, while common in Manhattan, is not considered ideal by the MTA, but would nonetheless be acceptable were funding eventually found. The planned entrances would still be located two blocks apart due to the location's depth—with the westbound entrance on 42nd Street and the eastbound entrance on 40th Street—but the new plan only called for one exit in each direction.
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