Homeless people and Marilyn Monroe will have to find a new source of gusts of warm air, the New York Times reports, as the Second Avenue subway is being built without sidewalk grates.
2nd Avenue Subway, 4th Time Around

You know what they say about Second Avenue, don't you? Lose a deli gain a subway. (Not too elegant but it beats that ol' Avenue A axiom: Lose a cyber-cafe, gain a diaper-changing station). Like the 2nd coming, the 2nd Avenue subway brings the shimmer of eternal underground salvation to millions and, also like the 2nd…
Prisoner of Second Avenue Subway News
Now that they've finally broken ground — or "lifted rail," or whatever they've done — on the High Line, it seems we might never again see one of those delightfully repetitive "High Line Approved! For Now!" headlines. How to fill the void? With the perhaps-apocryphal Second Avenue Subway, of course. Let the "Second…