NEW YORK It was almost two years into President Donald Trump’s term when Gov. Andrew Cuomo descended beneath the Hudson River to tour the decrepit rail tunnels that connect New York and New Jersey.
In a video he would later send to the White House, Cuomo made one plea: fund the Gateway project, a $13 billion proposal to build a new crossing under the river and repair the existing tunnels, which were severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
“It is probably the critical infrastructure issue facing not just New York and New Jersey, but literally the entire Northeast,” Cuomo said in the video, which did nothing to remove Trump’s blockade of the project.