Tomorrow at 10 a.m., officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will reopen Urban Avenue in New Cassel, L.I., to vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The street had been closed in March to allow it to be rebuilt as an underpass beneath the LIRR’s busy Main Line. As part of the LIRR Expansion Project (also known as the Third Track project), it is the first of five at-grade railroad crossings along the Main Line to be transformed into underpasses, improving safety, train reliability and traffic, and reducing local sound nuisances.

WHO:        • Phil Eng, President of the Long Island Rail Road
                  • Janno Lieber, MTA Chief Development Officer

WHAT:      Officials will cut the ribbon on the roadway underpass, then police and fire vehicles will be first to drive through the new roadway before general traffic begins.

WHEN:      Tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 5 – 10 a.m.

WHERE:     Corner of Urban Avenue and Broadway,
                  New Cassel, L.I.