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Joe Biden breaks ground at La Guardia Airport

Vice president Joe Biden returned to La Guardia Airport — which he once said reminded him of a “third-world country” — on Tuesday to help break ground on the new main terminal.

“The greatest city in the world needs and deserves the greatest infrastructure,” said Biden.

USDOT to award $759 in infrastructure grants

Memorial Bridge, ports among projects slated to get transportation grants

By Melanie Zanona

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has selected over a dozen transportation projects to receive funding from a newly created competitive grant program, quickly drawing the praise of lawmakers who represent districts or states that will benefit from the fresh injection of infrastructure cash.

Editorial: Playing politics with tolls

Gov. Cuomo’s budget would spend billions on the state’s transportation infrastructure.
THE STAKES

Coupling it with a giveback to favor Thruway users is an unnecessary political ploy.As so many municipalities and school districts struggle, hemmed in by the property tax cap and only modest increases in state aid,

Con Ed battles over Second Avenue Subway Funding

By David K. Li

Con Edison, KeySpan and Brooklyn Union Gas are balking at state and MTA pressure to pony up millions of dollars for work on the Second Avenue Subway.

The utility companies are already asking for rate hikes they believe are crucial to maintain an aging infrastructure — and they have no interest in shouldering the $375 million the MTA says is needed to move underground lines as it continues to build the long-awaited subway,

73-Story Tower Would Be Brooklyn’s Tallest by far

By MATT A.V. CHABAN

Scrutiny is about to begin of a proposal for the tallest tower in Brooklyn, one that would be impossible to ignore.

Two developers have submitted plans in recent weeks for a 1,066-foot building in Downtown Brooklyn,

Road funds off-balance

Road funds off-balance

By JOE LEATHERSICH

WARSAW — The Department of Transportation knows the New York City subway is important — but that doesn’t stop the roads in upstate New York from crumbling.

The Wyoming County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a resolution passed calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo restore parity between the upstate and downstate budget.

Region needs to invest in failing infrastructure

A lot of vertical construction – factories, restaurants, hotels, lofts – is going on in the Queen City. But what about the horizontal structures – roads, bridges, storm drains, sewers? We depend on them every day.

Take a closer look.

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