This $42-million, two-pronged project initially involved upgrading life, fire and safety systems at the Statue of Liberty National Monument—a job that was finished the day before Superstorm Sandy struck.
The $8.2-million third and final phase of the city's renovation of Washington Square Park involved replacing three structures in the southwest section of the park with one multipurpose building.
The first new school built in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood in decades, this 430,000-sq-ft public charter school is located on a 24,096-sq-ft corner site.
Generating all of its power from a 65-kilowatt photovoltaic array in the parking area, the "front door" to the owner's campus features North America's tallest self-supporting glass panels.
The $50-million project to reconstruct the RFK Bridge's Manhattan/Queens ramp exceeded original expectations when it finished four months ahead of schedule.
Part of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority's $2.3-billion interchange widening program, this upgrade included a doubling of the main line to 12 lanes and providing separation between cars and trucks.
As the largest single-contract construction project in the New York State Dept. of Transportation's history—at $407 million—the span that connects Manhattan and the Bronx had not undergone major repairs since it opened in 1963 and was in need of attention.
The $370-million, cut-and-cover tunnel project included the construction of the shell of a new subway station that spans Second Avenue from 91st to 100th streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.