5 Station Rehabilitation

Ahern Painting Contractors was awarded the 40+ million dollar Rehabilitation of 5 Stations with Elevated Line Structure Rehabilitation by the MTA. This project involved two major components of rehabilitation. One was the rehabilitation of  the following stations; Alabama Ave, Norwood Ave, Van Siclen Ave, Crescent Street, and Cleveland Ave on the Jamaica Line in Brooklyn. The second was the rehabilitation of the Jamaica Line’s elevated line structure from Broadway-Eastern Parkway to Cypress Hills.

On the station portion, our work included major upgrades to the five station’s lighting, power, telephone, public address, customer information screens, fire alarm, mechanical wiring, automatic fare collection, metro card readers, and token booth wiring.  On the line structure portion our work included 600V DC traction power wiring.

Traditionally, the electrical contractor is the one of the last trades to complete its contract work and demobilize from a complex project such as this. Thanks to the exceptional efforts of our management and field staff, we are extremely proud to be the first trade off the job on our largest project in our history to date.