“The idea of a subway to Staten Island really goes way back,” said Stan Fischler, a subway historian. “Way, way back.” The plan, first proposed in 1890, was approved. Maps were drawn up.

The very elegant invitation before me, with the seal of New York City, is for 4/14/23 and reads “Breaking of ground for the Brooklyn Shaft” [of the Staten Island to Brooklyn subway]. But it ...

A 300 foot-long, 110-ton Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) was lowered into the Staten Island shaft in July 2012 and had progressed approximately 1,600 feet towards Brooklyn when operations were ...

Construction for the original tunnel to support bringing the Long Island Rail Road into Grand Central Station began in the 1960s. The latest completion date is now 2019, with a cost of $9 billion.