The MTA is always doing something. 

Whether it's testing "open gangway" subway cars, plastering Nazi-themed commercials on public transportation, writing excuse slips for late straphangers, or even increasing service on 10 subway lines.

At the moment, the MTA's $30 billion revised capital plan is being put to work building, power washing, expediting or delaying this or that. They're also hard at work on the East Side Access project, whose goal is to bring LIRR to Grand Central Terminal. 

It's a $10.2 billion project that's meant to keep New York City competitive in the future with other world class cities by facilitating transit from outer boroughs and beyond the City. 

It's going on right underneath GCT, 10,000 cubic yards of earth and rock being whisked out of enormous caverns due to enclose the new tunnels. 

But what's going on at the ground level is a little more exciting today, for at least 50% of New Yorkers.

Part of the new construction are high heel friendly subway grates, so people don't have to worry about ruining their shoes or eating it on the street while strutting around Midtown. 

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The MTA recently announced that, "In order to be easier to navigate for those wearing high-heeled shoes, the sidewalk 'high-heel friendly' grates are made with slip-resistant surfaces and the openings between the cross-bars are only 1/2 inch wide." 

Furthermore, the new grates aren't limited to Midtown. There are already slip-resistant grates installed as part of the Second Avenue Subway construction. 

According to MTA spokesperson Aaron Donovan, "There are some installed at 63rd Street and 96th Street as part of the Second Avenue Subway." 

The future is bright for a breed of New Yorkers unaware of the pitfalls of getting your shoes caught in a subway grate. Survival of the fittest? Come five to ten years... we think not.

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[Feature Image Courtesy The New York Times]