Seven months after Sandy, Rockaway residents get their subway back

Seven months after Sandy, Rockaway residents get their subway back

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The longtime residents of the Rockaways, home to Rockaway Beach, were riding one of the first A trains to resume service seven months after Superstorm Sandy slammed the area, one of the hardest hit by its high winds and flooding.

The 3.5-mile stretch along the Rockaway Flats saw tracks washed out and miles of signal, power and communication wires destroyed. Two stations, Broad Channel and Rockaway Park Beach, had been completely flooded. According to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, about 35,000 daily customers were left without a direct rail link to Manhattan.

When the flooding had subsided, the MTA launched what became a seven-month effort to rebuild the damaged transportation system.

"This was an all-out, seven-month, day-and-night effort to rebuild three-and-a-half miles of the A train service coming across Jamaica Bay and into what we call the flats of the Rockaways," MTA Interim Executive Director Tom Prendergast told NY1 News.



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