This 1930 cover image depicts a group of four barge-mounted derricks using 100-ft-long booms to carefully place an assembly of pipes in a trench at the bottom of the Harlem River, which separates the northern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City from Bronx County.
A new interchange and four new bridges serve the more than 78,000 daily vehicles that access area industrial and commercial properties, including the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center, and remove thousands of trucks from local streets.
Bronx Logistics Center will be 585,000-sq-ft on two-levels on a 14.2-acre site that offers flexibility, cutting-edge design and fast access to Manhattan.
A $349M public-private investment in Bronx, N.Y. set to house the Universal Hip Hop Museum in the borough where the music genre started, also adds 3 acres of public esplanade and park space sorely needed in the community.
Numerous fixes continue a decade and a half after the project completed late and over budget, and may not be finished after a second capital project ends in May.
In spite of 2020 challenges that included shuttering non-essential construction sites, the construction sector in New York and New Jersey completed scores of noteworthy projects—a number of which achieved recognition as ENR New York 2021 Best Projects.