And this, after they turned a perfectly good elevated line on the west side into a freaking garden?
Well, that used to be a freight line; last used by Conrail in 1980. Never was used for transit. But it could’ve been converted, yes, if not for the NIMBYs in Greenwich Village and Chelsea (used to go all the way to St. John’s Park Terminal, but was demolished between there and Gansevoort Street).