ENR New York's website was active this year as the number of readers that spent time viewing news and project pages grew from the prior year. Related Links: Bloomberg Unveils Post-Sandy Strategy; Names NYCEDC to Oversee 2 NYC Groups Granted FEMA's 1st Round of Post-Sandy Recovery Funds Recovery Work Takes Center Stage Some Tristate Projects Suffer Sandy's Blow City Puts Old Rail Cars to Use Sandy's Combined N.Y.-N.J. Damage Estimate Stands at About $62.8B Cuomo Forms 3 Groups to Improve NYS's Natural Disaster Preparedness Carpenters Nail Down Volunteer Work in Sandy-Stricken Areas Cuomo: Sandy Cost NYS about $33 Billion After
Mayor Michael Bloomberg laid out a strategy on Dec. 6 to reexamine New York City’s major infrastructure in light of Sandy and how it can be protected from any future storms. He also announced that Seth Pinsky, president of New York City Economic Development Corp. (NYCEDC), will develop recovery plans for hardest-hit communities. Photo by Spencer T. Tucker Deputy Mayors Cas Holloway and Bob Steel will oversee Pinsky’s work, Bloomberg says. In addition, Marc Ricks, an infrastructure expert and vice president of infrastructure at Goldman Sachs but had previously served the Bloomberg Administration, will be taking a leave of absence
The NYU Langone Medical Center and the New York Police Dept. (NYPD) are set to receive the first round of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding for Superstorm Sandy costs. Under the deal, which totals about $190 million, FEMA will grant Langone $114,632,500 for emergency costs in the wake of the storm and FEMA Public Assistance will award the NYPD $75,660,695 for overtime and compensatory time costs. This is not the final amount of funding for reimbursement work throughout the city, U.S. Senators Charles Schumer (NY-D) and Kirsten Gillibrand (NY-D) said in a Dec. 4 statement."The city's first responders and
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Bridges and Tunnels has awarded Tutor Perini Civil, New Rochelle, N.Y., a five-year, $235.7-million contract to replace the upper level deck of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge that connects Brooklyn and Staten Island.
After years of delays, the 26-acre Hudson Yards site, Manhattan's single-largest undeveloped property and New York City's largest private development since Rockefeller Center, broke ground on its first building today, Dec. 4. Led by general contractor Tutor Perini and builder Tishman Construction, work on the $1-billion-plus, 47-story South office tower at 10th Ave. and 30th St. is set for completion in 2015. The 1.7-million-sq-ft, mixed-use tower, designed by New York-based Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, is part of a planned $15-billion complex to be built over a Long Island Railroad storage yard. Other planned structures on the site include a 2.4-million-sq-ft
Besides the many residences and businesses damaged or destroyed in Superstorm Sandy's wake, several projects that ENR New York covered earlier this year were also affected. These include projects in or near the hardest-hit regions, including Long Beach, N.Y.; New York City; and the New Jersey coast. Related Links: ENR New York More ENR New York Projects The Oct. 29th storm dealt a devastating blow to Long Island's barrier island of Long Beach, where severe flooding and high winds took out power and severely damaged or destroyed homes and infrastructure. The island is also home to Long Beach High School,
Now that Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters have receded and power is restored to most of the millions it affected, industry executives in the tristate region are warily eyeing the sudden surge in construction activity and spending. The storm's boost to industry may last till around mid-2013, they say. But, unlike Sandy, that boost is not powerful enough to affect the industry's long-term economic outlook dramatically. Related Links: ENR New York: Bright Spots in an Otherwise Hazy Outlook More ENR New York Features That is in part because the storm slowed or stopped projects in the last quarter of 2012; whether and
For the first time, New Jersey nabbed the top spot this year in terms of installing photovoltaic (PV) capacity, surpassing California, the country's longtime solar energy leader. Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G), New Jersey's largest utility, has already built a hefty portion of that capacity and, by early 2013, will wrap up a four-year program to install 40 megawatts of power via telephone pole-mounted solar units. The distributed solar program, which will provide enough energy to power 6,500 homes, is the largest of its type worldwide. Image Courtesy of Petra Solar Sunnyside Up: Smart grid technology is at
CH2M Hill, New York, has promoted Thomas P. Klin to vice president and Northeast geographic manager. Previously, Klin helped lead the firm's integration of the Halcrow acquisition in North America and also served as the firm's transportation operations director for Latin America. Klin Related Links: ENR New York Featured People The firm has also promoted Patrick King to vice president and director of the firm's ports and maritime business. Previously, King was a member of the Halcrow global maritime management team and the technical director for the organization's Engineering Divers Group.Hazen and Sawyer, New York, has appointed Robert Reach to
New York & New Jersey Photo Courtesy of Gov. Chris Christie's Office Washed Out: Gov. Chris Christie vows to rebuild N.J.'s tourism trade, which is a staple of towns devastated by Sandy, including Seaside Heights. Photo by Patrick Cashin/MTA New Ride: MTA sets up temporary service in the devastated the Rockaways. Related Links: ENR New York ENR New York Featured News Sandy’s N.Y.-N.J. Wrath Tallies About $62.8B Immediately after Superstorm Sandy hit, N.Y. and N.J. officials said damage estimates would be staggering, but now they have tallied preliminary costs showing just how formidable the storm was. The combined total damage
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