Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer during an event at the West Side Rail Yard in New York, on Jan. 31, 2023.
Photographer: Stephanie Keith/BloombergThe long-awaited Gateway tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City has received a $6.9 billion federal grant that provides a key piece of funding needed to begin full construction.
The allocation is the largest ever from the Federal Transit Administration’s capital investments and grants program, US Senator Chuck Schumer of New York said in a tweet Thursday. It was made possible by the $1 trillion infrastructure bill approved by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in 2021, Schumer said.