Cuomo’s $5.6 billion LIRR Plan: New Hudson tunnel, Penn-Farley complex, transformed Jamaica hub & improved service to Brooklyn
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Wednesday a $5.6 billion infrastructure plan, encompassing 100 capital projects, to upgrade and transform the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR).
A major part of the plan is to build a new Hudson Tunnel between New York and New Jersey. New York needs a federal partnership to make this part of the plan — known as the Gateway Project — happen, Cuomo said in a speech at the Long Island Association meeting in Woodbury.
Gateway would be accompanied by the development of the new Penn-Farley Complex, featuring the $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall. The Penn-Farley complex is the old Farley post office across the street from Penn Station.