Residents and business owners are speaking out in response to the MTA’s planned expansion of the 2nd Avenue subway that will eventually run up to 125th Street. One resident, Lou Nicaj, the longtime owner of the Eagle Tile shop in East Harlem,

The MTA’s board unanimously approved a $2 billion tunneling contract with a joint venture between Halmar International and FCC Construction for the northward expansion of the Q line Monday,

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to award a $1.9 billion contract on Monday to bore tunnels and begin to build two new Harlem subway stations for the much-anticipated extension of the Second Avenue subway.