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Nearly eight months after news first broke that the L would be shut down extensively, the MTA is making the plan official.
Nearly eight months after news first broke that the L would be shut down extensively, the MTA is making the plan official.
On Monday morning, the New York Times broke the news that the MTA has reached a decision about how it’s going to close the L train: starting in January of 2019, the Canarsie tube under the East river will be fully off line for a year and a half.
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