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Amtrak reopens the first East River Tunnel tube, 14 years after Sandy flooded it

Line 2 of the East River Tunnel returned to service after a year of reconstruction, the first completed phase of a $1.6 billion rehabilitation of the four-tube crossing that carries roughly 450 Amtrak, LIRR and NJ TRANSIT trains a day. Crews replaced more than 24,000 feet of rail, 8,000 tons of ballast, 8,000 wooden ties and 20,000 cubic yards of bench wall concrete. Phase two, on Line 1, starts in autumn 2026; Amtrak says the work remains on budget and on track to finish by the end of 2027.

InfrastructureAmtrak Media · Aug 17, 2026 ↗

Foster + Partners reveals a redesigned PENN15 supertall opposite Penn Station

Vornado Realty Trust unveiled an updated design for PENN15, a proposed 1,050-foot, 52-storey office tower at 15 Penn Plaza — alternately addressed 401 Seventh Avenue — directly across from Penn Station. The Foster + Partners scheme is slated to yield about 2.1 million square feet of office space plus lower-level retail, with a tiered massing that sets back on all four sides to carve out ten tenant terraces. It is the centrepiece of Vornado's 7.4-million-square-foot Penn District plan. No construction timeline has been announced.

DevelopmentNew York YIMBY · Sep 3, 2026 ↗

The Torch passes the halfway mark at 740 Eighth Avenue

Extell's 52-storey, 1,029-foot hotel tower on the Times Square/Hell's Kitchen border reached the halfway point of its ascent. Designed by ODA with SLCE as architect of record and Suffolk Construction as general contractor, the 885,902-square-foot building will hold an 825-room hotel topped by a public observation deck with a drop ride. ODA says the upper half of the 500-foot protrusion is meant to evoke the Statue of Liberty's torch.

DevelopmentNew York YIMBY · Aug 12, 2026 ↗

46-storey tower keeps climbing at 30-25 Queens Boulevard in Long Island City

Construction continued upward on a 46-storey residential tower at 30-25 Queens Boulevard, one of the taller additions to the Long Island City skyline currently under way — a reminder that the borough with the second-highest filing volume citywide is still absorbing large-scale residential development well outside Manhattan.

DevelopmentNew York YIMBY · Aug 24, 2026 ↗

Structural columns buckle at 235 East 42nd Street, triggering multi-block evacuation

Construction workers converting the 37-story former Pfizer headquarters near Grand Central into apartments spotted buckling support columns on the 21st floor, prompting the evacuation of the tower and at least nine neighboring buildings. Emergency shoring stabilized the structure within a day, and the Department of Buildings later declared it safe.

IncidentCBS News New York · Jul 8, 2026 ↗

2 World Trade Center construction officially restarts with ceremonial groundbreaking

Silverstein Properties broke ground on the long-stalled 55-story, 1,226-foot supertall in the Financial District, designed by Foster + Partners — resuming a project that had sat unbuilt above its podium base for over a decade.

DevelopmentNew York YIMBY · Jul 22, 2026 ↗