Transportation
7 Fun Facts About the New York Subway’s New 7 Train Extension
Everything you need to know about the city’s first new full station to open since 1989.
If you ever wanted to know what a couple billion dollars buys you in New York City, head to the new 34th Street-Hudson Yards subway station this Sunday around 1 p.m.
The station—the system’s first fully new digs since 1989—is part of the 7 train extension that reaches the far west side of midtown Manhattan. The service now gives riders access to Hudson Yards, the Javits Center, the High Line, and the rest of the growing Chelsea-Hell’s Kitchen borderland that was, until now, three avenues away from the nearest subway stop. The 7 links to 18 other subway lines, passing east through Times Square and Grand Central and into Queens en route to Citi Field, home of the (suddenly relevant) Mets.