The authority builds new schools and oversees repairing the city's 1,100 public school buildings.
They include several that the authority built for city hospitals, the City University of New York and the State University of New York.
Unless the authority builds more train lines, all it can do is run trains closer together by installing new computer systems.
In 1981, as a recession eroded profits at the track, the authority built an arena that cost about $85 million, nearly twice as much as expected.
The Republican party has been quick to claim the Bible's authority in opposing gay marriage – an "authority" built on a handful ofcontroversial verses.
In 1999, for example, the authority built a facility to suit Celgro, an established biotech company then facing dislocation because its sublease was about to expire.
The description: The article misstated the date of a court hearing on the residents' complaint that the power authority built a mini-power plant too close to a residential neighborhood.
The authority built and operates all of the tunnel and bridge crossings between New Jersey and New York City, manages airports and seaports in both states, operates the PATH rapid transit system and owns the World Trade Center.
The description: 'Staten Island Residents Fight Relocated Power Plant's Start' The article misstated the date of a court hearing on the residents' complaint that the power authority built a mini-power plant too close to a residential neighborhood.
To reduce the amount of groundwater use for agriculture and prevent further decline in the water table of the aquifer, the water authority built in 1985 the Khirbet Al-Samra wastewater treatment plant (KSWTP) in the region with an intent to make the plant a reliable and sustainable water resource for irrigation purposes.
