Not In The Middle Of My Upper East Side Block

Isn’t the point of building a subway to “change the lifestyle”? No, never mind the people who live past First Avenue:

The MTA will re-evaluate a planned entrance to the Second Avenue subway slated for East 72nd Street in the wake of two lawsuits filed by area residents, their lawyer said yesterday.

In suits filed last month, four co-ops are seeking to have the entrance, now set to be built between First and Second avenues, moved to a corner or scaled down.

The residents also want the MTA to redo an environmental review.

“Before we make any final determination to proceed with an entrance . . . we will complete the additional evaluations,” agency lawyer Anthony Semancik told a community meeting last night.

The project would “change the lifestyle of the people who live there,” said Susan Chandler, who lives in one of the buildings affected.