New York City

Thu February 16, 2017

Governor Cuomo Announces $14.4 Million Awarded to Three Supportive Housing Projects in the Bronx

State and Federal Funding Will Support the Creation of 319 UnitsGovernor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Feb. 16 that $14.4 million has been awarded to three housing projects in the Bronx. In addition to federal funding, these awards will help create 319 units, including 142 supportive housing units for homeless families and individuals, including senior citizens, women and their children....

Mon February 06, 2017

Hidden Beer Vault Found Underneath Williamsburg Construction Site

Trees aren't the only things Brooklyn produces — beer once brewed below a Williamsburg apartment building. A construction crew began clearing the site at 33 Ten Eyck St. for a low-income apartment building in 2015 when workers struck a vault during excavation....

Gary LaBarbera - Wed February 01, 2017

City Council Can Protect NYC Workers From Construction Accidents by Mandating Better Training

On January 31, thousands of New York City construction workers assembled to mourn the tragic loss of 30 workers who died in construction accidents over the past two years. But they weren't there only to mourn....

Wed December 21, 2016

Kosciuszko Bridge on Budget and on Time

The largest single contract in New York State Department of Transportation (DOT) history — the Kosciuszko Bridge that links the Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts — is on budget and on time. A sum of $555 million has been allocated for the first phase, which involved removing the old span and constructing the first replacement....

Erin Durkin - Tue January 10, 2017

City Council Diversity Bill for Construction Sites Slammed as Weak by Activist Groups

The NAACP and activist Bertha Lewis are slamming a bill being considered in the City Council Monday, which they say won't produce needed information about racial diversity at construction sites. Hazel Dukes, president of the state NAACP, and Lewis, president of the Black Institute, are pushing to require construction projects that get city subsidies to disclose the race, gender and zip code of workers they employ, whether the workers are union or non-union, and how long they remain on the job....

Fri January 06, 2017

Gov. Cuomo Proposes 21st Century Updates to JFK Airport

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today presented a vision plan to transform JFK International Airport into an airport equipped to meet the demands of the 21st century and worthy of the State of New York. Based on the recommendations of the Governor's Airport Advisory Panel, the vision plan lays out a comprehensive, airport-wide framework to create a unified, world-class airport....

Jennifer Rupp - Fri January 06, 2017

LaGuardia Airport — Reaching New Heights

Vice President Joseph Biden and Gov. Andrew Cuomo ceremoniously kicked off the $4.2 billion construction of a new 1.3-million-square-foot Terminal B building at LaGuardia Airport in Queens on June 14th....

Wed January 04, 2017

New Subway Line, Awaited Since the 1920s, Opens in New York

It's been a construction project decades in the making, but New Yorkers' long wait for a subway under the Upper East Side of the Manhattan finally became a reality on Sunday, when a stretch of the new Second Avenue line opened up to riders....