An $11 billion bus terminal rising in Midtown, a $6.99 billion subway extension digging into East Harlem, a $2.3 billion viaduct coming down in Syracuse, and a $3.26 billion transmission backbone for Long Island headline New York's public pipeline.
*How to read the total: the sum of the published figures in the list below. Bases differ by project — most are total cost estimates, some are federal grants, program totals, or construction contracts as awarded. Each project's expanded view labels its own basis. We add them up with the labels showing rather than pretend they're all the same kind of number.
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22 major public projects are listed. The listed figures sum to ≈$50.7B — a total dominated by four New York City programmes: the $11B Midtown Bus Terminal replacement, the $6.99B Second Avenue Subway Phase 2, the Port Authority's $3.9B of public infrastructure at JFK, and the $3.26B Propel NY transmission project. This is a majors list, not a census: New York carries hundreds of smaller public jobs below the $10M floor or without a published figure, and none are tallied here.
Bi-state pointers — read before quoting the tally: the Gateway / Hudson Tunnel Project (an ≈$16.1B programme) is listed ONCE, at the total, on New Jersey's page; it is not a record here. The same treatment applies to the Port Authority's Hudson crossings: the ≈$2B 'Restore the George' rehabilitation of the George Washington Bridge (reported about 60% complete) and the $640M Lincoln Tunnel Helix rehabilitation stand on New Jersey's page as priced records, with no duplicate here — and no George Washington Bridge programme with a separate New York-side price was verified in this cycle beyond that shared rehabilitation. The $336M Outerbridge Crossing rehabilitation (Staten Island–New Jersey) is likewise a Port Authority bi-state crossing and is not duplicated here. JFK treatment, disclosed: only the Port Authority's own $3.9B public investment — the rebuilt roadway network, the new ground transportation center, utility upgrades and airside works — is listed. The terminals are privately developed on Port Authority leasehold and are excluded as private delivery, however large: the $9.5B New Terminal One consortium build and the $4.2B Terminal 6 (both opening in phases from 2026), the $1.5B Terminal 4 expansion led by Delta/JFKIAT (completed 2024) and Terminal 8's works led by American Airlines.
Programme discipline: no capital-plan total is tallied anywhere on this page. The Interborough Express is tallied at the $2.75B committed in the MTA's 2025–29 Capital Plan against its $5.5B published estimate (its $166M design contract and $45M of state design funding are inside that commitment). SUNY Downstate is tallied at the $750M of state capital funding committed against the $1.1B modernisation total. The BQE Central rehabilitation is tallied at the $1.6B currently allocated in the City Capital Plan against NYC DOT's $3.5–4B estimate. The I-81 Syracuse programme is tallied at NYSDOT's $2.3B eight-contract programme figure.
News-flagged sources: several rows rest on news or trade-press reporting of official figures, flagged 'news' in the data — the BQE allocation (city figures via Brooklyn Bridge Parents), the Cross Bronx suspension (Equipment World, from NYSDOT's statement), the SUNY Upstate annex design (WSYR, from SUNY / Governor figures) and the East Shore Seawall contract termination (ENR, from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers statements). Each record names the underlying official source. The softest records on the page are the BQE Central allocation (a partial allocation against a much larger estimate, with construction not targeted to start until 2030), the Kensington Expressway's 'up to $1B set aside' figure (a commitment, not a contract), and the East Shore Seawall's status (its first construction contract was terminated in 2026; the project itself was not).
Deliberately excluded: projects completed in a prior year, however large — East Side Access / Grand Central Madison (2023), Moynihan Train Hall (2021), the LaGuardia Airport rebuild (2022), the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge (2017), the Kosciuszko Bridge (2019), the Throgs Neck Bridge deck replacement ($253M, completed 2023) and the Hunts Point Access Improvement Project ($1.7B, completed 2023) and Roswell Park's Cell and Gene Therapy hub in Buffalo ($98M, opened December 16, 2024). Excluded as unfunded proposals, however famous: the Penn Station reconstruction and expansion (no full construction funding), Second Avenue Subway Phases 3 and 4, and the Cross-Harbor Freight Tunnel. Excluded as a verified termination: the LaGuardia AirTrain (cancelled in 2023). Excluded as private by rule: Micron's semiconductor campus in Clay, the Empire Wind and Sunrise Wind offshore wind farms, the Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line, and the JFK terminals named above. Three records are listed as SUSPENDED, honestly: the Kensington Expressway (halted by a state court in February 2025 pending a full environmental impact statement), the Cross Bronx Five Bridges project (suspended by NYSDOT in May 2026) and the East Shore Seawall (first construction contract terminated in 2026; re-procurement is the project's stated path, so it is a suspension of construction, not a termination of the project).