NYC is one step closer to getting the Interborough Express
By: Matthew Sedacca | Published: 2025-08-01 20:20:00 | Source: www.curbed.com
Governor Kathy Hochul and MTA chairman Janno Lieber road a Coney Island-bound D train Friday morning to a presser announcing the future of the Interborough Express.
Photo: Susan Watts/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul
It’s just before 10 on a Friday morning, the D train is hurtling toward Coney Island, and Governor Kathy Hochul is working the car, Tom Cruise style. She fist-bumps a first-year medical student who got on at Atlantic-Barclays, shakes hands with a salt-and-pepper-haired man who was staring at the governor and her aides, and tells another, similarly bewildered rider, “We’re going to have a great ride!”…