Located at the south end of the East Side trunk cable duct under Second Avenue, this building connects many circuits to Brooklyn which were disrupted.

The board planned to run the cars on a new subway line it was just then preparing to build under Second Avenue.

The proceeds of the 1967 bond act were partly used to begin tunneling under Second Avenue.

But no subway under Second Avenue.

Transportation experts have maintained for decades that a new line under Second Avenue is needed because of the high population density on the East Side of Manhattan.

The key would be running regional rail trains under Second Avenue instead of subway trains.

Among the plans was a massive trunk line under Second Avenue consisting of at least six tracks and numerous branches throughout Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

Under Second Avenue in East Harlem, used needles attest to the occasional drug abuser seeking privacy.

(Of course, that is basically what state and federal officials said in 1993, 1968, 1944, 1931 and 1920, the year a subway under Second Avenue was first proposed.)

And nearly 35 years later, no trains have ever run under Second Avenue.