(The following story appeared on The Journal News website on April 12, 2011.)
NEW YORK — Work continues on a $7.3 billion project that will allow train riders from Westchester and Putnam to travel directly to Penn Station or to connect directly to Long Island Rail Road at a station being built under Grand Central Terminal.
The East Side Access project is on target to bring some Long Island Rail Road trains to the new station by late 2016, and it includes the deepest escalators in Manhattan, said Alan Paskoff, program executive for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority project.
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