 By 1957 , it had been made clear that the 1951 bond issue was not going to be able to pay for the Second Avenue Line . The money had been used for other projects , such as the integration of the IRT Dyre Avenue Line , and IND Rockaway Line , and reconfiguration of the DeKalb Avenue Interlocking . By then , the New York Times despaired of the line 's ever being built . In March of that year , NYCTA chairman Charles L. Patterson stated that the NYCTA had used the bond funds properly and that the bonds were not dedicated solely to fund the Second Avenue Line . He stated that the bonds had been allocated to the corridor based on increasing ridership on the Second Avenue Line , but admitted that currency inflation , as well as necessary rehabilitation work to the existing lines , made the Second Avenue Line unlikely in the near future . 
