NEW YORK — The Gateway Development Commission board unanimously awarded a $1.8 billion contract Monday for one of the most expensive and complicated aspects of the $16 billion project to build a new ...

Thomas Prendergast will oversee the $16 billion project to build a new rail tunnel between North Jersey and Manhattan for rail passengers.

An Amtrak train exits the North River Tunnel in North Bergen, New Jersey, U.S., on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Amtrak, along with three New York City-area mass-transit agencies and two members of ...

The new tunnel is meant to provide more reliable service for NJ Transit and Amtrak riders ... it approaches the Manhattan side of the Hudson River and ultimately connecting with the tunnel ...

Prendergast, a New York resident and former head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, will oversee the $16 billion project to build a new two-rail tunnel between North Jersey and ...