As Amazon’s decision to split its second headquarters between New York City and metropolitan Washington, D.C., draws plaudits and criticism regarding incentives used to lure the e-commerce giant, contractors are weighing the impacts of major new construction programs in what are already the nation’s top two construction markets.
Proponents want push on subway link to LaGuardia Airport and new streetcar; in other New York news, a major wind power thrust and affordable housing in Brooklyn