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NYC’s busy L subway tunnel line will close for 18 months in 2019

The decision was forced by damage due to saltwater that flooded the systems Canarsie Tube during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

By Henry Goldman | Updated on July 25, 2016
Passengers pack themselves into a crowded L Train on the New York City subway system, Thursday, May 5, 2016 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The lone subway tunnel connecting some of Brooklyn's hippest, youngest neighborhoods to New York City's commercial heart in Manhattan will either be closed entirely for 18 months, or see extremely limited service for three years, under two possible plans for repairing damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. Work on the L line would start in 2019. (AP Photo/William Mathis)

(Bloomberg) – New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to shut down a subway tunnel for 18 months on its L train that carries passengers under the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, disrupting schedules for as many as 300,000 commuters a day beginning in January 2019.

The decision, announced Monday, was forced by damage due to saltwater that flooded the system’s Canarsie Tube during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

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