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READ MORE: President Joe Biden touts $292 million grant for Hudson River Tunnel Project The Hudson Tunnel Project is all part of the larger Gateway Program. Also underway is the Portal North ...

and the two halves of the north tunnel met underneath the Hudson River on September 11, 1906. Though Chief Engineer Charles Jacobs led a celebratory inspection party through the tunnel ...