“It had to be a consortium of public agencies in the New York region that could collaborate and carry out the project,” said Martin Robins, founding director of Rutgers University’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center and a longtime transportation policy planner. “The Port Authority was the right agency because of its strength in engineering and project management.”
VTC-POET: Springwood Avenue Heritage Walk
Did you know that between the 1930s and 1970s, the West Side of Asbury Park, NJ, was a vibrant hub of African American life and culture? The community, shaped by Black and African American, Italian, Jewish, and Latino residents and business owners, created famous...