All it needs now are tracks, stations and trains.
Tunnel boring ended yesterday on the long-delayed Second Avenue Subway, making it possible to at least walk underground from 96th to 63rd Street.
The project — talked about since the 1920s — hit a major milestone when a tunnel-digging machine broke through a wall into the existing crosstown tunnel at East 63rd Street.
“The Second Avenue Subway is for real this time,” said MTA chief Jay Walder.
At its planned opening in December 2016, the Second Avenue Subway will extend the Q line north to 96th Street.
The MTA says the project is the first phase of building a new subway line along Second Avenue all the way downtown.
Train service was lost on Second Avenue when the street’s elevated line shut down in 1940.
Since then, progress has come in fits and starts.
The current project finally got under way in 2007, and the tunnel-boring machine was put to work in May 2010.
With the tunnels dug, the MTA is getting set to build stations at 96th, 86th and 72nd streets.