Located on the northern edge of the Belmont Park redevelopment site, the 19,000-sq-ft, three-level station is the Long Island Rail Road’s first new passenger facility in nearly 50 years.
With the goal of relieving congestion and improving the overall experience for travelers, the Penn Station Long Island Rail Road concourse renovation preserved square footage for essential customer amenities—including retail and restrooms—while expanding public space by more than 15,000 sq ft.
Nine years after its groundbreaking—and 21 years after its predecessor was destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks—the 12,000-sq-ft Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine opened in 2022 in Manhattan as a compact marvel of design and craft quality, topped by an intricate structural steel dome with a translucent marble exterior.
Project teams recognized as this year’s ENR New York and New England regional Best Project winners impressed industry judges in their submissions with details of how team members collaborated to overcome key execution challenges and devised solutions that could have broader industry benefit.
Major wind developer, and others that include giant Equinor, predict millions in writedowns as first projects face tough economics, but proponents see a solid market that needs government attention to current obstacles.