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MTA Construction and Development Company is a subsidiary of the

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(MTA), formed in July 2003 as MTA Capital Construction Company to manage the MTA's major capital projects in the

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. It mainly focuses on improving

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and facilities in

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, the

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, and

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areas. Funding primarily comes from local, state, and national bond sales and budgets. In 2017

Janno Lieber The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York. The MTA is the largest public transit authority in the ...

became MTA Capital Construction president; in 2021 he was appointed Acting Chair of the MTA. Projects being built under MTA Capital Construction include the

East Side Access East Side Access (ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) from its Main Line in Queens into a new station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan's East Side. A project of the Metropol ...

and phases 2, 3, and 4 of the

Second Avenue Subway The Second Avenue Subway (internally referred to as the IND Second Avenue Line by the MTA and abbreviated to SAS) is a New York City Subway line that runs under Second Avenue on the East Side of Manhattan. The first phase of this new line, ...

. The

Fulton Center Fulton Center is a subway and retail complex centered at the intersection of Fulton Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The complex was built as part of a $1.4 billion project by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...

was completed in November 2014 under MTA Capital Construction; the

7 Subway Extension The 7 Subway Extension is a subway extension of the New York City Subway's IRT Flushing Line, which is served by the local and express services. The extension stretches southwest from its previous terminus at Times Square, at Seventh Avenu ...

was completed in September 2015; and the Second Avenue Subway's first phase was completed in January 2017. Other projects include the third track on the

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on the

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between

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and Mineola, and the second track from Bethpage to Ronkonkoma on the same line.

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* Organizations established in 2003 Metropolitan Transportation Authority Proposed public transportation in New York (state) Proposed public transportation in New York City 2003 establishments in New York City {{NYC-transport-stub

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