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A decades-delayed commitment to extend the subway into East Harlem took a significant step forward Monday when the MTA board approved a $1.9 billion contract for the next phase of construction on the Second Avenue Subway.

Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared alongside MTA officials at a meeting of the transit agency’s board to tout the “transformational” plan to bring the Q line to 125th Street — more than 80 years after the elevated line that ran above Sec

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