Midtown Bus Terminal Replacement, 625 Eighth Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York

The deck is done pouring. On Oct. 24, 2026, crews placed the final concrete on the fourth and last quadrant of the 3.5-acre platform over Dyer Avenue and the Lincoln Tunnel Expressway, ENR reported, the most visible milestone so far in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s $10 billion Midtown Bus Terminal replacement.

The existing terminal opened in 1950, has been expanded several times and carries more than 200,000 passengers a day. It has to keep doing that the entire time it’s being replaced.

Project Scope

The program runs in phases on the two blocks between Eighth and Ninth avenues and West 40th and 42nd streets. Phase 1 covers new ramps into and out of the Lincoln Tunnel, the Dyer Avenue deck-overs and an interim seven-level, 900,000-square-foot terminal west of the current building. That interim structure, due by 2030, will handle buses while the old terminal comes down, then become a storage and staging building with room for about 350 buses.

Phase 2 demolishes the 1950 building and builds the new terminal on the same footprint, with five bus levels, 40 intercity gates, electric bus charging and a central atrium. Later work turns the deck into public open space and adds two office towers planned at 926 and 1,346 feet, whose air rights help pay for the job.

Foster + Partners and Epstein designed the terminal as a joint venture. An STV-Turner joint venture is construction manager for Phase 1, and Tutor Perini holds a $1.87 billion guaranteed maximum price contract for the ramps and interim terminal. On the deck-over, AECOM Tishman is construction manager and MLJ Contracting is general contractor. Caissons 50 to 60 feet deep carry the new ramp structures.

Why It Matters

This is a staging puzzle more than a building job. Every ramp that comes down has to be replaced by a temporary one first, and the deck itself will serve as bus and equipment staging until the new terminal is up. Port Authority Executive Director Kathryn Garcia put it simply: the agency has to do all of this to keep everything operational.

The deck schedule tells you how tight that is. Deck construction started in May 2025 and isn’t expected to wrap until 2027, even with the structural pours finished. Midtown’s biggest commuter gateway can’t afford a weekend shutdown, so the sequencing between Tutor Perini’s ramps, MLJ’s deck and the tunnel approaches decides whether the 2032 opening holds.

For contractors, it’s a long tail of work. Demolition, a new terminal and two supertall-class towers are still to come once Phase 1 is done.

Project Team & Details