In 1993, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, noticing that McKim, Mead & White’s James A. Farley Post Office Building (1912) was no longer the center of the city’s mail-handling operations, proposed that conversion to a railroad station could help relieve Penn Station’s notorious congestion.

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation is starting its search in May for a “construction manager advisor” to shepherd work on a $46-million visitors’ center at the Niagara Falls State Park.

Winner announced in competition to design affordable housing at Sunnyside Yard

Value of new contracts expected to decline 4% in 2021 after having fallen 8% last year

VHB adds several ex-Brinkerhoff Environmental Services execs after acquiring the New Jersey-based environmental sciences firm; Barton & Loguidice DPC makes several promotions in Rochester, N.Y.; the Worcester-Fitchburg Building Trades Council in Massachusetts elects Jorge Rivera president

The photograph stars in the ENR New York/New Jersey Snapshot feature for March 2021

The $250-million, 2.4-acre multilevel public outdoor space, which replaces an old Hudson River pier in Manhattan, uses precast concrete components, deep pilings and MEP systems in innovative ways. Says its project executive: "When I started working on the project, we weren't really sure if it could be built."

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority is the workhorse of the state’s aggressive renewable power development goals

Construction value of the New York region's largest 40 projects to break ground in 2020 declines sharply as COVID-19 slows progress