The long-awaited project to give Metro-North trains direct access to Penn Station kicked off Friday in the Bronx.
The project includes constructing four new train stations in the borough.
"This transit desert in the East Bronx is going to be gone. Over half a million Bronx residents will live within one mile, one mile of one of these new stations. Co-Op City, I was just there a few weeks ago, Morris Park, Parkchester, Van Nest and Hunts Point. All of these communities are going to be transformed in a matter of a few years," said Hochul.
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