Three more awards rounded out the week, each smaller than the Second Avenue Subway or Tibbetts Brook jobs but each telling its own story about where the region's construction dollars are going.

MTA's board package recommends Skanska USA Civil Northeast for a $145.4 million design-build contract — about $147.9 million if an optional flood-wall extension gets exercised — to build flood walls, gates, pumps, and drainage upgrades protecting the LIRR's West Side Yard in Manhattan. This is the storm-surge fix for a yard that flooded during Hurricane Sandy; more than a decade later, the region is still writing checks for that storm, and this is one of the larger ones.

In Suffolk County, a joint venture of Railroad Construction Company and GCCOM Construction landed a $36,590,000 design-build contract — Contract 6532 — to demolish and rebuild three aging, structurally deficient bridges: River Avenue, Sagg Road, and Cranberry Hole Road, all carrying local traffic over the LIRR's Montauk Branch. Three bridges under one contract number means one mobilization, one team, and one schedule for towns that would otherwise be waiting on three separate lettings — worth watching for local Suffolk subs who can chase mobilization-adjacent work like traffic control and utility coordination across all three sites at once.

At JFK, Grace Industries LLC of Melville came in apparent low at an estimated $35,687,599 against just one other bidder to rehabilitate Taxiways A, B North, and C — a Port Authority contract whose bid opening got pushed from March 19 to April 1. A two-bidder field on airfield work this size isn't unusual; taxiway rehab at an active international airport demands FAA-grade scheduling and night-work capability that keeps the pool thin, and Grace's number stood alone against a single competitor.

None of these three has cleared final award confirmation in the records supplied — the MTA package is a board recommendation, and the Port Authority listing marks Grace as apparent low pending the agency's own results confirmation. Contractors tracking flood-resiliency work, Long Island bridge replacements, or Port Authority airfield lettings should watch each agency's own results pages for the formal award notices.