MTA awards contract for Verrazzano suicide-prevention fencing
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
Posted Mar 17, 2021
The MTA has approved a $32.8 million contract to install permanent suicide-prevention fencing on the entirety of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, expected to be completed within two years. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. After years of advocacy from local elected officials, the MTA has officially moved forward with plans to install permanent suicide-prevention fencing on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
On Wednesday, the MTA Board voted to approve a $32.8 million contract to El Sol Contracting/Dewberry Engineering to install safety fencing along the entire span of the bridge’s upper and lower levels.
Look back at The Setonian’s top headlines of 2020
Home » Features » Look back at The Setonian’s top headlines of 2020
Posted By Nicholas Kerr on Dec 31, 2020
There are years that are like no other, and then there is 2020. From the protests for racial justice to the loss of cultural icons and the global pandemic that overshadowed it all,
The Setonian compiled our top headlines of the past year to help us ring in the new one.
January
Shawn Simons (left), a survivor of the fire, now tours the country with his former roommate Alvaro Llanos to lecture students about fire safety. (Nicholas Kerr/Editor-in-Chief)