Manhattan Magazine reviews the long local nightmare that is the construction of the Second Avenue subway, from the “subway cough” to the cracks in the floors and walls of historic brownstones to the noise to the underground silica levels. Or there’s the poetic way to look at it: “there’s just something unique about the Second Avenue subway in the annals of New York City construction—a sort of sustained chaos, a sense of vast change sweeping through a classic Manhattan neighborhood that hasn’t seen much of it over the years.” The current scheduled opening date is the end of 2016. [Manhattan Magazine; previously]