Locals Angered by Developer’s Plans to Alter UES Subway Station
(DNAINFO) Amy Zimmer | March 21, 2016 — Peruzzi Properties wants to move subway stairs and an elevator onto the sidewalk on East 86th Street.
The developer of an 18-story luxury tower planned for East 86th Street and Lexington Avenue quietly inked a deal with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to transform the 86th Street station for the uptown 4, 5 and 6 trains — and Upper East Siders are furious that they’ve been shut out of the planning process.
To accommodate the 210-foot-tall building set to rise at 147 E. 86th St., the developer plans to remove a subway station stairway that’s currently in the base of the existing building on East 86th Street near Lexington Avenue to use that space for highly coveted retail, insiders said. The developer, Ceruzzi Properties, would then pay for the MTA to build a new, wider stairway on the sidewalk.