“Dear Austin,” he wrote Port Authority chief Tobin in language unthinkable a few years earlier, “After considering the alternatives available to us, I am convinced that the entity best able to construct and operate the terminal is the Port Authority.” The passenger terminal would eventually be built in Manhattan—but the agency, soon to be renamed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, had no further opposition from city government as it developed a vast new port well away from its geographic roots.37
