New York Growth to Slow Without Train, Runway Work, Planners Say

New York’s economy has been on a roll, but that could all come to an end. The area, which has added more than 800,000 jobs in the past five years, may take 25 years to add that same number again unless some radical changes are made, according to the Regional Plan Association. Here are a few of the group’s 61 recommendations:

The group’s fourth regional plan is set for unveiling this morning at the New School in Manhattan, with officials including Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy and Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, scheduled to speak. The 90-year-old nonprofit Regional Plan Association, whose chairman is RXR Realty LLC Chief Executive Officer Scott Rechler, advocates that leaders think of the metropolitan area as one region rather than an amalgam of clashing jurisdictions.