East Harlem businesses being displaced by the Second Avenue Subway extension claim the MTA is dragging its feet forking over the financial compensation and relocation assistance they desperately need.
“They’ve left me hanging,” said 59-year-old Lu Nicaj, whose 30-year tile-construction supply shop Eagle Tile is facing closure over the upcoming second phase of the behemoth Manhattan transit project.
“I don’t know the future. I’m keeping my fingers crossed, but I do not know what’s gonna happen,” he told The Post.
“It’s the whole David and Goliath thing,” Nicaj said — adding that this time David might not win.
Nicaj is just one of several East Harlem business owners being forced out of their storefronts to make way for new subway stops between East 116th and East 125th streets as part

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