This is what $1.4 billion will buy you.
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority released new renderings of the $1.4 billion reconstruction of the Fulton Transit Center, partially damaged after 9/11 and long in need of an upgrade.
TN got a sneak peak at the construction in June, but here are architectural renderings of what the final product is likely to look like adapted from presentation given by the MTA to a local community board and first reported about by DNAInfo.
A 53 foot skylight will give the main atrium a vertical feel rare in NYC subway stations.
Parasols are being installed on the Fulton Transit Center's "Oculus" to regulate the light that will spill into the atrium below.
The Atrium, as pictured, will be a vast
Street Level
Second Level
Third Level
Platform Level
Dey Street Concourse
very nice, but do we need that big a hat for the building? Also, International style walls = boring.
I wonder how much that scrap metal thing on top of the ‘transit center’ (aka large subway station) is adding to the cost.