New Hudson River Tunnel to displace at least 90 West Side businesses

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has begun sending out letters to West Siders whose stores and properties lie in the path of a tunnel-boring machine that will soon start creating an $8.7 billion commuter New Jersey Transit train line beneath the Hudson River. More than 90 business and building owners have received notice that the Port Authority might use eminent domain to acquire their properties. Ground was broken on the tunnel’s west end in North Bergen, N.J. last summer; ultimately it is slated to stretch to A Terminal Under 34th Street near the Macy’s flagship, though work in Manhattan is not likely to begin for several months. First, the Port Authority must hold an as-yet-unscheduled public hearing on the eminent domain process. [NYT]

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