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No electric eels
In what Benjamin Kabak at Second Avenue Sagas calls "what is possibly the weirdest MTA-related story in years", we are assured that the 7 (Flushing Line) subway extension is safe from electric eels.
An MTA board member appears to have some very confused memories of the building of the Javits Convention Center, which got special permission to use plastic pipes, but for reasons that have nothing to do with eels, electric or otherwise. DNAInfo quotes an eel project coordinator, who explains that the Hudson estuary has lots of eels, but electric eels are tropical freshwater fish, and could survive neither the salt levels nor the New York winter.
An MTA board member appears to have some very confused memories of the building of the Javits Convention Center, which got special permission to use plastic pipes, but for reasons that have nothing to do with eels, electric or otherwise. DNAInfo quotes an eel project coordinator, who explains that the Hudson estuary has lots of eels, but electric eels are tropical freshwater fish, and could survive neither the salt levels nor the New York winter.