Mayor’s Team Visits Unionport Bridge Reconstruction

As part of ‘City Hall in Your Borough’ week, Mayor de Blasio’s team and high ranking NYC Department of Transportation officials paid a visit to Blackridge Construction, a minority-owned firm that won a $3.4 million contract on a major DOT construction project: the $226 million reconstruction of the Unionport Bridge. Among those present at Thursday, January 31 celebration of business and enterprise were Polly Trottenberg, DOT commissioner; James ‘Chris’ Carroll, Blackridge Construction president; Councilman Robert Cornegy, chair of NYC M/WBE, a commission on minority and women owned businesses; Jonnel Doris, senior advisor and director of the Mayor’s M/WBE office and employees of Blackridge.