In Construction
Secant piles (reinforced concrete support piles) nearly completed for HYCC-3.
Excavation, underpinning of the High Line on the far west side of Manhattan.
Amtrak, Gateway Development Commission (GDC), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), U.S. DOT Federal Railroad Administration, U.S. DOT Federal Transit Administration, MTA Long Island Rail Road, Related Companies
Amtrak, State of New York, State of New Jersey, U.S. DOT Mega Grant Program (the National Infrastructure Project Assistance program)
To protect the alignment for a future rail tunnel beneath the Hudson Yards development on the west side of Manhattan, Amtrak has constructed two sections of a concrete casing underground between 10th and 11th Avenues and 30th and 33rd Streets. Construction of the first 800-foot section between 10th and 11th Avenues began in August 2013 and was completed about a year later. The second section extended the project west another 105 feet under the 11th Avenue viaduct in Manhattan and was completed in 2018. The next step involves extending the casing on a diagonal alignment from 11th Avenue to 30th Street—approximately 500 feet—in coordination with the Hudson Tunnel Project and private development of Hudson Yards. Early work has been completed to relocate Long Island Rail Road utilities out of the path of the third section.
When complete, the concrete casing will preserve the ability to construct a new rail tunnel that connects New Jersey with New York Penn Station, as envisioned in the Hudson Tunnel Project. It also preserves the ability to meet the growing demand for passenger rail service across the Hudson River and throughout the Northeast by enabling the expansion of rail capacity under the Gateway Program.
In 2023, the Hudson Yards Concrete Casing-Section 3 (HYCC-3) project received a $292 million Mega grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). To learn more about this grant award, visit the FRA Mega Program Fact Sheet for HYCC-3.
