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How this 100-year-old agency shaped and at times disgraced the region
Posted May 01, 2021
Construction of what was then the world s tallest building, the World Trade Center, towers over the framework of dilapidated Pier 19, among buildings to be razed to make way for Battery Park City. The Port Authority, which built the Twin Towers is 100 years old this month.Staten Island Advance
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A history of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey by Professor Jameson W. Doig written in 2001 called the now 100-year-old bi-state agency “the Empire on the Hudson.”
Great infrastructure projects bridges and tunnels, airports, the PATH and the nation’s first container port characterized that empire that unified the bi-state economy, but it wasn’t without political strife.
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NJ Transit is Murphy’s albatross (cont.) | Editorial
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
It’s a challenge to give Gov. Murphy a complete report card for his special If-It-Kills-Me Strategy to resurrect New Jersey Transit, since a pandemic wiped out most of its ridership, which is still inching its way back.
That said, the governor will soon be presented with an opportunity to help restore this quagmire to its earlier grandeur, in the form of reform legislation that could liberate NJ Transit from its dysfunctional underpinnings and create a better model for leadership.
The timing cannot be better. COVID might have changed everything, but NJ Transit wasn’t exactly a crackerjack before the virus crashed in, and we’re still waiting for concrete evidence that this is a Murphy priority.