Transit advocates are slamming New York State for putting an estimated $5 billion into wider highways in the five boroughs. A report by advocates Riders Alliance with Vocal-NY said plans to widen portions of six city highways highways stand in opposition to the state’s climate goals — most notably the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act as well as the state’s effort to reduce ...
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Gov. Hochul had little to say this week about how to jump start the state’s long-stalled Atlantic Yards project after a key auction to develop part of the Brooklyn site was recently postponed — for the third time. The delay puts the creation of hundreds of promised affordable apartments in jeopardy amid New York’s ongoing housing shortage. “Any way that the influence of the state will result ...
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May 10—Building a workforce for the $1.7 billion Buffalo Bills stadium construction project could make it easier to find skilled workers for other big projects down the road. That's because the efforts underway to build a diverse and expanded workforce within the construction trades are expected to leave the region with a larger pool of skilled workers available to work on other projects once ...
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Reformed contracting practices at the MTA saved $300 million in 2023, according to an agency report released Monday. “This is the new MTA,” Jamie Torres-Springer, head of construction and development for the agency, told the Daily News. “We don’t want to be judged by the standards of 10 years ago.” Since 2020, Torres-Springer said, the MTA has spent roughly $1 billion less than it expected to ...
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KEYPORT, N.J. (AP) — A major pipeline that would have moved natural gas through New Jersey and under two bays to New York has been killed, but another plan to transport liquefied gas from Pennsylvania by tanker truck is moving forward. Environmentalists who had fought both projects reacted Monday to the mixed bag they were handed on Friday when the two proposals took differing pathways with ...
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LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Three anti-wind power groups are suing New Jersey to overturn a key environmental approval for a wind energy farm planned off the coast of Long Beach Island. Save Long Beach Island, Defend Brigantine Beach and Protect Our Coast NJ filed suit in appellate court on April 26 challenging a determination by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection that ...
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Apr. 26—Residents of northern Niagara County are beginning to let out cautiously optimistic sighs of relief. Long-awaited cleanup work is set to begin in May on a former TNT plant and radioactive waste storage site in the Town of Lewiston. The 191-acre Niagara Falls Storage Site, formerly part of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works property, was used to manufacture TNT, or trinitrotoluene, in 1941 ...
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Apr. 21—CATSKILL — New York's push to develop more green energy is changing the upstate landscape, with solar farms popping up in what used to be pastures, fallow cropland and industrial sites across the region. In addition to these installations, another type of development is emerging. Rather than solar panels, energy developers are starting to put up battery energy storage systems, or ESS ...
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Apr. 15—There is something sprouting out of the ground at the construction site of the $1.7 billion new Buffalo Bills stadium in Orchard Park. It is structural steel and the start of flooring on the decks of the stadium's second level. Two months after the project's first steel was placed beneath the ground in the lower level of the huge bowl that is the foundation for the stadium, the ...
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NEW YORK, April 5 -- Consolidated Edison, a provider of energy-related products and services, issued the following news release:National Grid Ventures (NGV) and Con Edison Transmission this week submitted a proposal to build transmission infrastructure that will carry offshore wind power to New Jersey's electric grid.The Garden State Energy Path will enable delivery of approximately 6 ...
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