Built in 1949, Route 3 interconnects Routes 17, 21, 46, the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike and Meadowlands Complex as well as access to the Lincoln Tunnel.
Joseph D. “Little Joe” D’Annunzio, who ran two family-owned New Jersey-based heavy construction firms that had key roles in significant infrastructure projects in the New York City area and eastern seaboard region, died in Naples, Fla. on Nov. 3. He was 86.
Construction on the Goethals Bridge replacement has been placed on hold after a large girder fell 50 feet from the top of a pair of columns earlier this month in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced earlier this month that the completion of a bridge project in Bayonne, New Jersey, has been delayed by two years.
Construction is underway on New York’s first new marina in over two decades. ONE° 15 Brooklyn Marina, located between Piers 4 and 5 of Brooklyn Bridge Park, is set to open in the spring of 2016.
The owner of Grand Central Terminal, Andrew Penson, is suing the city of New York for $1.1 billion, following the city’s green-lighting the construction of a 65-story tower nearby, called One Vanderbilt.
Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon New York University’s School of Engineering has received a $100 million dollar donation, and will be renamed NYU Tandon School of Engineering to pay tribute to the benefactors, Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon.