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Originally Posted by Crawford
Cuomo was never the driving force behind this. That would be Vornado/Related.
There's almost no chance that Cuomo's Lt. Governor, who was more moderate/business friendly than him, decides to interfere with Empire State Development and the bi-state Port Authority to torpedo the redevelopment of Penn. For what purpose?
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Without his will it's just another plan collecting dust at ESD, one amongst many. This thread literally began with him seeing seeing it as another legacy project. That he would use his power and political capital to move it forward makes it his baby. It gained additional importance to him once he became embattled.
Will Hochul lend it that level of support? I don't know and nobody else does either. She's "business friendly" but it is unknown how that will manifest itself policy wise. This is one amongst a small bevy of Cuomo pushed projects that have less than certain futures now.
Given the funding in the infra bill Amtrak's Penn South complex is not super likely to come to fruition. Gateway is getting 6B and Amtrak can argue for their share of another 24B in NEC money which many other states are going to have their hands out for. This further lessens the arguments for a significant chunk of the project.
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