East Harlem leaders and community advocates are calling for a passageway between the neighborhood’s incoming Second Avenue subway extension and its Metro-North stop by repurposing a long abandoned railroad station, but MTA leaders said they have no plans to move forward with the idea.

The agency already plans to build an expanded subway station at 125th Street and Park Avenue as part of its project to bring the Q line into East Harlem, and last month inked a contract to begin tunneling. Early renderings from the agency show the overhauled subway station will connect the new segment of the Q line to the 4, 5 and 6 lines under a shiny glass building. But under the MTA’s current plan, riders would have to go outside to get between the commuter railroad station and the subways.

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