"A new commuter rail concourse is being built 16 stories below Grand Central Station as part of a $15 billion development. An army of workers is blasting through bedrock to create the shiny new area that will have more floor space than New Orlean's Superdrome. It is one of three hidden projects going on beneath the streets of New York City to expand what is already the nation's biggest mass transit system.
Also under construction is the Second Avenue Subway that eventually will serve Manhattan's far East Side, from Harlem to the island's southern tip. The planned eight miles of track will open Manhattan's East Side to millions of people who now squeeze daily onto the Nos. 4, 5 and 6 subway trains running under Lexington Avenue."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275062/Shiny-new-transit-halls-taking-shape-SIXTEEN-stories-Grand-Central-Station.html
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