Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeffrey Klein, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie today announced an agreement to implement the purchase of American-made steel and iron products by state entities. Under the “Buy American” legislation, the Department of Transportation, Thruway Authority, Bridge Authority, Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...

These are busy times at the Port of Albany. Some $49 million worth of improvements are expected to get underway this month, as the port prepares for an influx of shipping, thanks to the widening of the Panama Canal. And current shipments forced the relocation of the annual Port Industry Day from historic Shed One to a tent in the administration building’s parking lot. “The shed is full of cargo,” an official said last week. It appeared nearly every ...

Keith Ericksen has made an impression on Assemblyman Charles Lavine. The Long Island Democrat speaks glowingly about his intern, a 23-year-old from the suburbs of Chicago who studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Sitting with Ericksen in his Albany office, Lavine praised the intern’s intellect and his ability to digest complex policy matters. “While Keith and I have never explicitly discussed this ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — If you drive along Bay Street in St. George these days, you can’t help rubbernecking to gaze at the towering steel structures taking shape next store to the Staten Island Ferry. Empire Outlets construction — scheduled to be complete before opening the more than 100 designer shops’ doors in March — is proceeding and is becoming more visible to passersby. Located adjacent to the St. George Ferry ...

State and local officials were at the Strong Museum of Play Monday to hand out monetary awards to the video game developers of the future. Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity, or MAGIC Center, announced the winners in the student and independent category in first New York State Game Development Challenge. RIT finished first in both, and 2010 graduate ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today launched Round VII of the Regional Economic Development Council initiative, officially kicking off the annual competition for more than $800 million in state economic development resources. The Consolidated Funding Application will open to applicants on Monday, May 1, 2017, enabling businesses, municipalities, not-for-profits and members of the public to begin applying, through a single ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the passage of the 2018 State Budget, which builds on the state’s fiscal discipline over the last six years while strengthening the middle class, reducing taxes, and making smart investments in New York’s future. For the seventh consecutive year, the Budget is balanced and holds spending growth to 2 percent. With the 2018 Budget, New York leads the nation by making college tuition-free ...

‍Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the passage of the FY 2018 State Budget Extender, which funds all government operations through May 31 and advances key priority infrastructure, economic development, and environmental projects across New York. The Budget Extender also secures $2.5 billion to ensure access to clean, drinkable water for all New Yorkers, protects the state’s most vulnerable ...

A solar farm in a former Rensselaer County hayfield is helping power buildings in the Albany City School District and more than two dozen private homes and apartments. About 1,200 panels in a five-acre field in Pittstown represent the first so-called “community” solar array in the Capital Region, said project builder Mark Fobare, CEO of Rensselaer-based Monolith Solar. Community solar aims at bundling together potential ...