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Jan. 08--The MTA faces potentially significant obstacles before it can definitively avoid the dreaded L train shutdown. Even with looming uncertainties, executives at the transit authority and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's outside engineers defended the last-minute proposal to drop the L train shutdown on Monday, assuring that the tunnel will be fortified for the long term through the hastily prepared ...
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Tappan Zee Constructors has announced that they have set a date for the use of demolitions to bring down the old Tappan Zee Bridge that has damaged sections. According to the company project engineers, the decision to use explosives was made after the September discovery that the bridge's east anchor span, which was already out of service, was damaged but stable with certain key components ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly a quarter-million New Yorkers who for years dreaded "L-mageddon," a planned 15-month shutdown of a key subway tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn, got a last-minute reprieve from the governor Thursday with a new plan that will allow repairs to go on at nights and weekends and keep the trains running. Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the surprise announcement just weeks after ...
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A third firm has confirmed that it's interested in building a wind energy project off the New Jersey coast. Norway-based Equinor says it submitted a bid Friday to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to build an offshore wind project. The company joins Orsted, a Danish wind company, and Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Shell and EDF ...
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Westhampton Beach was recently awarded a $5 million grant from the State Department of Environmental Conservation to be used toward construction of phase one of the villages sewer district project. The grant came from the DECs Water Quality Improvement Project program, which gave over $20 million to projects across Long Island through the states Regional Economic Development Council ...
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Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind announced Friday it had applied to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities for ratepayer subsidy of a wind farm about 15 miles off Atlantic City. It also said it will partner with Public Service Enterprise Group, of Newark, if it wins the competitive process, in a news release issued late Friday. Its application promises 1,000 construction jobs during a two- to ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Deep in the bedrock 15 stories below the famous Grand Central Terminal, a cavernous construction site is slowly, and expensively, taking shape as a commuter rail hub that will accommodate more than 150,000 passengers a day. East Side Access has been dogged by massive cost overruns and delays since construction began nearly a dozen years ago. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo has brought in ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York police say a transformer has exploded at a Con Edison facility in Queens. They said a fire that broke out at the facility Thursday night is under control and no injuries have been reported. The explosion caused a bright blue light that illuminated the New York skyline. The lights caused a stir on social media as several witnesses posted photographs and videos of the ...
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The New Jersey Department of Transportation and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority are advancing more than $1.1 billion in construction contracts for 2019. NJDOT will issue more than $500 million in construction contracts between December 2018 and March 2019 and the Turnpike Authority will issue more than $600 million, adding more than $400 million in new projects currently under design. NJDOT ...
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The New Jersey Department of Transportation and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority are advancing more than $1.1 billion in construction contracts for 2019.The New Jersey Department of Transportation and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority are advancing more than $1.1 billion in construction contracts for 2019.NJDOT will issue more than $500 million in construction contracts between December 2018 ...
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