by John Konrad (gCaptain) During the Second World War a massive amount of money and materials flowed through New York harbor providing victory for Europe but also profits for the.
Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions
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.