Governor calls off planned shutdown of NYC subway line

NEW YORK (AP) — For two years, New Yorkers have been planning for and dreading “L-mageddon,” a subway rehabilitation project that would have meant 15 months of painful detours for the quarter million riders a day who use the L train to get between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo abruptly canceled the plan Thursday, just three months before it was to take effect, saying a team of experts had come up with a way to overhaul a flood-damaged tunnel beneath the East River w