USTA & Tennis.com - Mon June 02, 2025
U.S. Tennis Association Unveils $800M Makeover of U.S. Open Complex in Queens, N.Y.
America's biggest tennis stage will soon get a major makeover. The United States Tennis Association (USTA) unveiled plans May 19, 2025, for an $800 million "reimagining" of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, N.Y., which will include a top-to-bottom transformation of Arthur Ashe Stadium, the U.S Open's iconic center court....
CDE - Thu May 29, 2025
CDE, Freehaven Materials Unveil Solution to Transform Waste Into Opportunity
As available landfill capacity continues to diminish across Long Island, CDE and Freehaven Materials joined forces to deliver a waste recycling plant that can repurpose excavated waste material. Unveiled at an open house event, the 150tph waste recycling plant in Brookhaven is turning resources that would have been discarded as waste into valuable in-spec sand and aggregates....
Amtrak - Wed May 28, 2025
East River Tunnel Rehabilitation Project Officially Under Way
Amtrak crews kicked off the first long-term track outage in support of the East River Tunnel Rehabilitation Project (ERT Rehab), a critical infrastructure investment that will restore the two tunnel tubes damaged by Superstorm Sandy (Line 1 & Line 2)....
ALL Crane - Tue May 27, 2025
ALL Uses Manitowoc MLC300 to Reach More Than 300 ft. in Dam Construction
Rochester Gas and Electric (REG)'s Station 5 is in the midst of a rebuild. The substation, positioned along the lower falls of the Genesee River, includes a dam for the generation of hydroelectric power....
NYC Department of Design and Construction - Tue May 27, 2025
First Phase of East Side Coastal Resiliency Receives Award
Commissioner Thomas Foley of the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) announced that the first phase of East Side Coastal Resiliency in the area north of East 15th Street received a National Recognition Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) at its 2025 Engineering Excellence (EEA) Awards....
Office of New York Mayor Eric Adams & amNewYork - Thu May 22, 2025
New York City to Begin $402M Fifth Avenue Redesign in 2028 Stretching About 16 Blocks
Construction to transform a stretch of Manhattan's iconic Fifth Avenue into a pedestrian-focused boulevard will officially begin in early 2028, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced May 21, 2025....
New York Times - Wed May 21, 2025
Trump Administration Reverses Order, Allows N.Y.'s Huge Offshore Wind Project to Restart
The Trump administration on May 19, 2025, allowed construction to proceed on a massive wind farm off the coast of New York's Long Island, a month after federal officials had issued a highly unusual stop-work order that had pushed the $5 billion project to the brink of collapse....
Albany Times-Union - Tue May 20, 2025
Construction Cost Increases on Albany, N.Y.'s New, Innovative NanoTech Microchip Plant
NY CREATES, the entity that owns the Albany, N.Y. NanoTech complex on Fuller Road, said in early May 2025, that its new NanoFab Reflections building will now cost $614 million, an increase of $64 million....
Staten Island Advance/SILive.com - Thu May 08, 2025
As Part of Reviving Staten Island's Waterfront, Work Starts On New Tompkinsville Esplanade
New York City is in the process of revitalizing State Island's North Shore, with construction now under way on a new waterfront esplanade located near the borough's busiest transit hub. Recently, a reporter from the Staten Island Advance/SILive.com was given an exclusive tour of the new Tompkinsville Esplanade construction site, a previously under-used half-mile stretch of land that will be transformed into 2 acres of public waterfront open space connecting the Stapleton waterfront to Lighthouse Point and the St....
New York Daily News - Thu May 08, 2025
If Allowed, Amtrak Plans to Delay the Start of Renovations to NYC's East River Tunnel
Amtrak officials announced May 7, 2025, that they would be pushing back the start of work on the New York City's East River Tunnel by two weeks. Just the day before, Mayor Eric Adams joined a growing chorus of elected leaders calling on the federal railroad to halt its plans to close a quarter of the tunnel's rail tubes for repair....
