The MTA plans to spend up to $120,000 to preserve access to an Amazon delivery hub during Bronx construction — even as EastHarlem mom-and-pop shops say the agency is refusing to help them survive similar disruptions.
Second Avenue Subway construction is choking EastHarlem small businesses — and the MTA is acting like a gang of “brutes” that does not care who gets steamrolled, furious shop owners told The Post.
For generations, EastHarlem has waited for the transit investment that much of New York takes for granted ... The very project intended to strengthen East Harlem threatens to erase many of the neighborhood businesses that have sustained it for decades.