Transportation

NYC’s $16 Billion Gateway Tunnel Wins Key Access at Hudson Yards

An Amtrak train in New York Penn Station in New York. — An Amtrak train in New York Penn Station in New York.
Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg

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By Elise Young

May 2, 2023 at 6:23 PM UTC

The construction of New York City’s new $16.1 billion rail tunnel took a major step forward Tuesday when the commission overseeing the project awarded a contract that preserves a key right-of-way.

The vote by the Gateway Development Commission puts Amtrak, the future owner of the tunnel, in charge of $292 million in construction for the right-of-way. The timing of the deal skirts a potentially dire engineering conflict with the expanding Hudson Yards waterfront neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side.