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Here’s Why It Took a Century and $4.5 Billion to Add Just Three Subway Stops in New York City

‘Almost Inevitable’

The Second Avenue line looked like a sure thing—in 1929. In 2017, the first short leg of it will finally appear. Here’s what (mostly didn’t) happen in all that time.

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