Voters in six New Jersey school districts, including three in Gloucester County, head to the polls Tuesday to consider school construction projects totaling nearly $110.9 million. In Deptford, the district has proposed a $37.6 million bond to build an addition to Monongahela Middle school that includes 16 classrooms, two science labs, a music room and a central district office space with a ... Read More

Jan. 23--Two workers were stuck dangling on malfunctioning scaffolding high up a Midtown hotel skyscraper Thursday. The two workers were stuck on a lift that suddenly tilted at 12 E. 48th St. near Fifth Ave. about 12:15 p.m. Firefighters were able to move the workers through a window back into building. They were not injured. Major Stevenson, 28, a laborer with PG Contractors, the company ... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — The man who earned the unlikely nickname “Train Daddy” as chief of New York City’s beleaguered transit agency announced Thursday that he was taking himself out of service, resigning after two years of trying to improve the Big Apple’s often frustrating subway and bus systems. In his resignation letter, Andy Byford, a British executive with experience in transit systems all over ... Read More

Jan. 19--A city water main break on the Upper West Side flooded streets and shut down trains Sunday morning. The break happened around 7:30 a.m. near 103rd St. and Central Park West, spilling water onto the streets and delaying A, C and D trains, according to officials. "I don't care about a water main break, I need to get to work," said an angry straphanger on a Manhattan-bound A train that ... Read More

Jan. 16--A 67-year-old woman died Thursday after she was struck by a piece of flying plywood that blew off a Queens building, officials said. Xiang Ji was walking down Main St. near 41st Road in Flushing when she was struck by the thin 3-foot by 2-foot piece of aluminum-covered wood about 9:45 a.m., witnesses told police. The wood was blown off a violation-plagued grocery in the process of ... Read More

Jan. 14--Gov. Cuomo's push to build a $2 billion AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport has hit the brick wall that is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The first-term congresswoman on Friday sent a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration demanding more details as to why an environmental impact study released by the agency in November ruled out several promising alternatives to Cuomo's preferred ... Read More

Jan. 6--New York state would acquire the block south of Penn Station to create a new terminal and increase track capacity at the transit hub under a preexisting plan backed by Gov. Cuomo on Monday. The state would try to purchase the properties between 30th and 31st Sts. and Seventh and Eighth Aves. to allow for the expansion of Penn Station's underground infrastructure, according to Cuomo's ... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — Two years after a lack of funds halted construction of a marble-clad Greek Orthodox church at New York's World Trade Center site, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Greek Orthodox officials announced plans Thursday to resume construction with the goal of finishing the rebuilding by the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The completed St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox ... Read More

Jan. 1--ALBANY -- Gov. Cuomo approved legislation Tuesday granting the city the power to streamline capital projects and cut costs through a contracting method known as "design-build." The much-heralded technique allows city agencies to issue a single request for proposal and contract for the engineering and construction of capital projects. The bill also forces private contractors to cover ... Read More

Dec. 29--Economic development keeps humming in the mid-Hudson, more than 10 years into the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. On 2020's eve, local economic development officials reflected on hundreds of millions of dollars of projects in Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties. Sure, the U.S. economy will stop growing, the economic development officials acknowledged. But, they added, ... Read More