The MTA has awarded Contract 3 of Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 — the package that builds the structural shell of the new 106 St Station and connects it to tunnel sections already being bored. That's according to Governor Hochul's office, which folded the news into a June 8 press release about the Phase 2 groundbreaking (governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-celebrates-groundbreaking-major-construction-stage-second-avenue-subway-phase). The release doesn't name the winning firm or the contract value, and we haven't found either in any other record. So we're saying it plainly: awardee and dollar amount, not disclosed.

What we do know is the shape of the program around it. Contract 2 — the tunnel-boring package — went out at $1.97 billion, and Hochul's team celebrated that groundbreaking at 120th Street alongside the Contract 3 news. The whole Phase 2 build is budgeted at $6.968 billion, with revenue service targeted for 2032.

“Tunnel boring hands off to structural shell work — and that handoff is exactly when the sub-tier action starts.”

Here's why a contractor should care even without a name or a number attached: this is a program moving through its stages in real time. Tunnel boring hands off to structural shell work, and that handoff is exactly when sub-tier action starts — concrete, waterproofing, structural steel, and eventually MEP rough-in. If you're chasing SAS-adjacent scope, the calendar just told you where the program is: past the hole-digging, into the building.

MTA Construction & Development posts its contracting opportunities on its own pages, tied to specific solicitation notices and named contracting officers — that's where the Contract 3 awardee's name will eventually surface, if not sooner through a City Record or MTA board filing. Worth a standing search alert if you're bonding up for transit work.

A $7 billion program doesn't hide its general contractor forever. Somebody's going to want the press release.