Formerly a New York City Dept. of Sanitation operations facility, the 5.5-acre park provides sports fields, playground, kayak launching zone and Manhattan’s first public beach.
This 1956 photo shows the massive inclined ramp, known as the Helix, carrying traffic out from and into the Lincoln Tunnel on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.
Former US Navy Seabee officer who led city-based marine and sewer contractor Spearin,
Preston & Burrows and key local projects, died April 5, said a family obituary.
The first of three support arches for the $1.7-billion Portal North Bridge project journeyed 30 hours down the Hudson River to the jobsite on the Hackensack River in New Jersey.
The almost century-old seawall lining the banks of the Hudson River along its path through Troy, N.Y., was in need of repair after sustaining damage during Hurricane Irene.
Eight 419-ft-high concrete towers, which will support the 2,230-ft-long, cable-stayed main spans of the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement over the Hudson River in New York, topped out in early
December.
Safety Week 2016, celebrated May 2-6, featured a safety rodeo at the 35 Express project in Dallas and other events at the Tappan Zee Bridge project site in Tarrytown, N.Y., and the Crenshaw/LAX transit project in Los Angeles.