President Joe Biden visited New York City Tuesday to announce a nearly $300 million federal infrastructure grant for the Gateway Tunnel project — funding a concrete casing underneath Hudson Yards that will eventually lead Amtrak trains from Penn Station to a new tube under the Hudson River.
Joined by virtually all of New York and New Jersey’s political movers-and-shakers underground at Hudson Yards, the president touted $292 million in funding, authorized under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, for the final section of concrete casing under Manhattan’s west side to bring trains from Penn Station to the new underwater tunnels.
