Businesses in NYC’s East Harlem say MTA’s endless construction is crushing them: ‘Total brutes’

Source: New York Post

They’re being treated like “Second”-class citizens! Second Avenue Subway construction is choking East Harlem small businesses — and the MTA is acting like a gang of “brutes” that does not care who gets steamrolled, furious shop owners told The Post. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s nearly $8 billion project will bring the Q train deeper into East Harlem by 2032 — but merchants said the agency is treating the neighborhood’s small businesses as expendable casualties of the massive project, ruthlessly choking off stores with fences, construction equipment and mounting legal challenges. 3 East Harlem businesses say MTA construction is crushing them.