Hudson River rail tunnel construction in NYC starting in 2023 with $292M federal grant

A $292 million federal grant will let construction work begin in the coming months on the Manhattan side of the new Hudson River rail tunnels linking Penn Station to New Jersey, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Thursday.

The grant will cover about half the $300 million cost of building the concrete casing of a box tunnel that will carry trains beneath Hudson Yards in and out of Penn Station as part of the Gateway Project.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Schumer said the money “will energize the vital Gateway Tunnel project. This massive amount of funds will mean construction on a critical element of the project can begin in 2023.”

The box tunnel will be the first significant construction on the Manhattan side of the long-delayed Gateway Project, which includes construction of two new rail tunnels beneath the Hudson and the rehabilitation of the existing rail tunnels, which opened in 1910 during the administration of President William Howard Taft.

The project has encountered years of delays — including during the administration of former president Donald Trump, whose Transportation Department made Gateway a “medium-low” priority.

“Despite needless political delay because of the former president, the Gateway project — which our economy depends upon — is now advancing and seeing the federal dollars that fuel major construction,” Schumer said.

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