Below are images showing various elements of the Gateway Program. They are available for use by the media and public.
August 2024: Construction progress at the Tonnelle Avenue Bridge and Utility Relocation Project site
August 2024: Floating cranes at work on the Hudson River Ground Stabilization Project
August 2024: Construction progress on the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing – Section 3
July 2024: Signing ceremony at Block 675 for a Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), locking in $6.88 billion in Capital Investment Grant (CIG) funding and the full $16 billion needed to complete the HTP.
July 2024: Signing ceremony at Block 675 for an FFGA with FTA.
July 2024: Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg, FTA Acting Administrator Veronica Vanterpool, and FRA Administrator Amit Bose visiting the Tonnelle Avenue construction site.
May 2024: FTA Region 2 visiting the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing – Section 3 (HYCC-3) construction site.
January 2024: GDC staff delivering a Hudson Tunnel Project presentation to representatives from DBE firms at our 9th industry outreach event.
November 2023: Breaking ground on the Tonnelle Avenue Bridge and Utility Relocation Project. This is the Hudson Tunnel Project’s first construction site in New Jersey.
November 2023: Tonnelle Avenue groundbreaking
November 2023: Launching work on the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing – Section 3 (HYCC-3), the Hudson Tunnel Project’s first construction site in New York.
November 2023: Launching work on HYCC-3.
January 2023: President Biden announcing $292 million Mega grant for work on the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing – Section 3 (HYCC-3) in New York City.
October 2023: Artist Marisa Morán Jahn’s Re/Connections, a large-scale public art installation from Art at Amtrak, wrapping the fence that borders a future construction site of the new tunnel along the West Side Highway in Manhattan.
October 2023: Our fence wrap installation with Art at Amtrak in Manhattan.
April 2021: Digging “Test Pits” on 30th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan, which is the northern boundary of a ventilation shaft for the new tunnel.
April 2021: Test pits confirm the location of ConEd cables feeding electricity into Manhattan, ensuring future construction of the ventilation shaft does not cut, damage, or otherwise disturb these cables.
April 2021: Test pits on 30th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan.
April 2021: Test pits on 30th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan.
April 2021: Test pits on 30th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan.
The first two sections of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing, which will connect the new tunnel into New York Penn Station, were completed in 2018. Here you can see the interior of the box tunnel that runs from underground in the block bordered by 10th and 11th Avenues and 30th and 33rd Streets. Construction of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing – Section 3, the third and final section, started in November 2023 and will be complete in 2026.
Inside the completed sections of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing.
Inside the completed sections of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing.
Early construction on the first two sections of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing, which will connect the new tunnel into New York Penn Station, was completed in 2018.
Early construction on the first two sections of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing.
Early construction on the first two sections of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing.
Early construction on the first two sections of the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing.
Portal to the North River Tunnel.
Exposed rebar in the North River Tunnel built in 1910.
Corrosion in the North River Tunnel accelerated by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
Deterioration in the North River Tunnel built in 1910.
Deterioration in the North River Tunnel built in 1910.
Deterioration in the North River Tunnel built in 1910.
Deterioration in the North River Tunnel built in 1910.
October 2018: Saltwater from Superstorm Sandy corroding the walls that house copper cables and electrical wires in the North River Tunnel.
October 2018: Electrical cables in the North River Tunnel damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
The Portal North Bridge is a swing-span bridge that causes major bottlenecks and delays when it malfunctions during opening and closing for maritime traffic. Here you can see the open bridge. By 2027, it will be replaced with a high-level fixed span bridge.
October 2018: Early construction work on the Portal North Bridge. Workers are constructing the initial sections of a 222-foot utility “monopole” that will carry high-voltage transmission lines supplying power to Northeast Corridor trains in and out of New York.
September 2018: Early work on the Portal North Bridge involving the construction of a steel bridge to protect water utilities and move fiber optic cables that supply data to Wall Street.