New Tunnel from 7 platform at Grand Central Station to 42nd St.

MTA's new Grand Central subway entrance requires a big drill, dynamite — and a priest
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Fitzgerald performed the ceremony as the MTA marks the halfway point of a $115 million project to make life a little easier for 7 train riders. Crews are building a new walkway and entrance from the line’s platform at Grand Central Terminal up to 42nd Street, fit with staircases and escalators. Fans of the New York Mets who catch the 7 train at Grand Central are likely familiar with the crowded hallways, escalators leading to the platform.
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The sandhogs — who over the last year dug out the newly blessed shaft — began drilling and blasting horizontally through the bedrock beneath 42nd Street. They’ll eventually reach a wall above the 7 train platform.
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MTA officials said the project will be finished by the end of the year — and will help reduce crowds at one of the city’s busiest subway stations. The agency estimates Grand Central Terminal handles 25 million subway and commuter railroad riders every year.

“I think with the added staircase down on the platform, you'll have much more comfortable circulation through Grand Central,” said Matthew Zettwoch, the MTA’s vice president of construction and development. “Not only with new escalators, you'll have new wayfinding, better messaging, new lighting, in addition to wider staircases down on both ends of the platform.”
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