Fulton Street Station plans are unveiled.Downtown's 300,000 subway riders will soon have a brand new glass-domed Fulton Street Transit Center The Fulton Street Transit Center is a $750 million project, currently in progress in New York City, USA, that will improve access to and connections between 12 subway services stopping at Manhattan's Fulton Street, PATH service and the World Trade Center station in Lower Manhattan. , the plans for which were unveiled last week. Scheduled for completion by the end of 2007, the newly designed transportation complex addresses long standing obstacles to better Downtown access by harmonizing a tangled web of nine subway lines connecting Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North and the rest of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Other improvements include greater access to the World Trade Center, World Financial Center and Battery Park City; reduced station and transfer passage crowding; and improved reliability of subway operations. The new Fulton Street Transit Center main entrance reveals a lofty, glass-over-steel cone that will open the station to day, inviting street light as far down as the 4/5 train platform. The new layout is the product of many months of research, community outreach, and exhaustive engineering strategies by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's design team, led by international architecture firm Grimshaw. It was unveiled yesterday as the MTA's top choice out of several similar blueprints presented in the draft environmental impact statement (EIS (1) (Executive Information System) An information system that consolidates and summarizes ongoing transactions within the organization. It provides top management with all the information it requires at all times from internal and external sources. ). "We want this structure to be iconic," said Andrew Whalley, the project's lead designer at Grimshaw. Whalley explained that the goal of the $750 million design is to create a structure that is recognizable from the interior and exterior. "Light helps you wayfind. It helps you connect to the city." The interior of the main entrance's conical conical /con·i·cal/ (kon´i-k'l) cone-shaped. con·i·cal or con·ic adj. Of, relating to, or shaped like a cone. structure is almost egg-shaped, allowing light to bounce between panes of glass and refract refract /re·fract/ (re-frakt´) 1. to cause to deviate. 2. to ascertain errors of ocular refraction. re·fract v. 1. down to two levels below the street. Tentative plans for that space include retail shops and other amenities, and, potentially, restaurants or public balconies. |
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