Line that transports more than 400000 commuters daily to Manhattan could be shut down for three years under proposed planBrooklyn residents are braced for chaotic commutes and a potential reversal of the booming genuine estate market that has characterized many of its neighborhoods in recent years if a proposal to shutter one of its main links to Manhattan for repairs goes ahead.
The 92-year-old Canarsie tunnels under current York’s East river took on more than 7m gallons of corrosive saltwater during the catastrophic landfall of Hurricane Sandy in 2012,bringing the city’s L train to a grinding halt for nearly two weeks. The long-term impact of that flooding, in the form of crumbling cement and rusted machinery, or means that for the first time in nearly a century,north Brooklyn and Manhattan may be without a convenient link for as long as three years.
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Source: theguardian.com