Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Second Avenue Subway, New York City Subway nomenclature, IND Eighth Avenue Line, BMT Brighton Line, IRT Flushing Line, IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line, Culver Line, BMT Broadway Line, List of New York City Subway lines, BMT Canarsie Line, IND Sixth Avenue Line, IRT Lexington Avenue Line, Chrystie Street Connection, IND 63rd Street Line, BMT Jamaica Line, IRT White Plains Road Line, BMT Sea Beach Line, BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, BMT Franklin Avenue Line, IND Queens Boulevard Line, IND Fulton Street Line, 42nd Street Shuttle, BMT Nassau Street Line, Archer Avenue Line, BMT West End Line, BMT Fourth Avenue Line, IND Crosstown Line, BMT Astoria Line, IRT Eastern Parkway Line, IRT Jerome Avenue Line, IRT Dyre Avenue Line, IRT Lenox Avenue Line, IRT Pelham Line, IND Rockaway Line, BMT 63rd Street Line, IND Concourse Line, IRT New Lots Line, IRT Nostrand Avenue Line, 60th Street Tunnel Connection. Excerpt: The Second Avenue Subway (SAS) is a planned rapid transit subway line, part of the New York City Subway system. Phase I, consisting of two miles (3 km) of tunnel and three stations, is currently under construction underneath Second Avenue in the borough of Manhattan. A plan for more than 75 years, the Second Avenue Subway tunnelling contract was awarded to the consortium of Schiavone/Shea/Skanska by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on March 20, 2007. This followed preliminary engineering and a final tunnel design completed by a joint venture between DMJM Harris and Arup. This contract, and the full funding grant agreement with the Federal Transit Administration which was received in November 2007, for Phase I of the project, a newly-built line connected to the BMT 63rd Street Line to 96th Street and 2nd Avenue. The total cost of the 8.5-mile (13.7 km) line is expected to be over $17 billion. A ceremonial...