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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Over 10,000 subcontracted workers at Newark Airport and its train station will soon get better pay and health benefits under a bill Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Thursday.
The law, called the Healthy Terminals Act, goes into effect immediately and sets in state law wage and supplemental benefit requirements for subcontracted airport and train state workers that are based on existing federal law and regulations. When you are going to work every day to do your jobs in a global transportation hub in the midst of a global pandemic, affordable health care becomes much more than just a benefit. It becomes a basic right, Murphy told a group of workers during a bill signing event at Newark Liberty International Airport s Terminal C.
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