Say goodbye to Second Avenue's "muck houses," the bulky white temporary structures at 69th and 72nd streets that have occupied half the roadway while the initial stages of blasting and station construction proceed underground. The WSJ reports that even though the first phase of the T line won't open to the public till 2016, the unsightly boxes?bemoaned by residents, ground-floor shops, and haters of truck traffic (a.k.a. everyone)?are nonethless being removed. [Metropolis; previously]
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