The MTA's Construction & Development arm has a structural painting and steel repair job out for the elevated Flushing Line between Queensboro Plaza and 33rd Street in Queens, estimated between $50 million and $100 million.
It's one of a run of MTA structural and systems jobs clustered on the board this month — the Verrazzano-Narrows finger-joint and steel repair contract already closed with Ahern Painting Contractors low at $28.87 million, and the CBTC signals package covering the 6th Avenue Line, 63rd Street Line, and DeKalb Interlocking is due October 16 at an estimated $100 million or more.
Together they point to an MTA that is spending heavily right now on the structural bones of the system — elevated steel, bridge connections, and signal interlockings — rather than only the visible station and rolling-stock work that tends to get the press coverage. For steel repair, painting, and structural subs, that's a wave of work running in parallel rather than one job to chase.
The Flushing Line painting contract is due October 27. Structural steel and painting contractors should pull the spec now — a job spanning multiple elevated stations typically carries access and staging requirements that take real lead time to plan around, on top of the usual lead-paint abatement protocols that come with century-old elevated steel.
Specs and bid documents are posted through MTA Construction & Development's own procurement channel.