Yes, Virginia, there is a Second Avenue Subway.
If you don’t believe it — after all, New Yorkers have waited for the mythical railroad since the late 1920s when the first test borings were made — the proof is in this picture.
The Second Avenue Subway — 63rd Street StationPart of a construction wall came down last week on the Lexington Avenue/63rd Street F station’s downtown platform.
Disbelieving straphangers gazed in wonder at an apparition: the new passenger platform for the Q train, which will be extended from Seventh Avenue and 57th Street to Second Avenue and 96th, connecting with the F at East 63rd.
They even saw a train: not for riders but for crews “doing all the necessary work to connect the lines,” said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz.
It was a first, fleeting look at an actual station for the new line — unlike widely seen tunnel images.
The endlessly postponed Second Avenue Subway has held a proud place in New York mythology since it was first planned during the Great Depression — as elusive as alligators in the tunnels.
Alas, the Second Avenue sugarplums vision didn’t last long.
The 63rd Street platform wall was filled in a few days later and Ortiz couldn’t say when it would next be taken down.
The $4.451 billion extension is on track to open by Christmas 2016.
