Posted Jul 10, 2025, 1:49 AM
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https://www.nj.com/news/2025/07/work...mmer-heat.html
Workers racing to build the Hudson River rail tunnels face sweltering summer heat
Jul. 09, 2025
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In the year since the Hudson River rail tunnel project got its record-breaking $6.8 billion federal grant, armies of workers spread across five locations have battled extreme weather and the realities of urban construction as they build the $16 billion Gateway tunnel.
Most of the work by the 11,200 construction workers, who have faced sweltering heat and freezing cold, has been out of the public view.
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The workers are the stagehands and set builders preparing for the big show that will be the first tunnel drilling project under the Hudson River in over a century.
The worksites vary: From rock drilling at the soaring Palisades in North Bergen to hammering out a deep, giant trench wedged between Hudson Yards that is crisscrossed by the historic High Line elevated walking trail.
And one project isn’t even on land, it’s in an artificial rectangular dam created in the middle of a turbulent Hudson River.
“When it’s done, we’ll have four good-as-new tubes to serve for the next 100 years,” said Steve Sigmund, Gateway Development Commission spokesperson. “Ten mega projects will be made into one.”
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