A landlord is fighting to keep the MTA from accessing his apartment building as part of a project to complete the transit agency’s Second Avenue Subway extension for fear that an inspection would expose deficiencies that will be costly to repair.
The MTA took the landlord to court this week, arguing that if a judge doesn’t grant it emergency access to the building to assess its structural integrity and carry out reinforcement work, it can’t move forward with the nearly $7 billion public works project that’s nearly a century in the making.
