{"id":50514,"date":"2025-11-24T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50514\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:06:06","slug":"rick-cotton-head-of-ny-and-njs-port-authority-to-retire-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50514\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Cotton, Head of NY and NJ\u2019s Port Authority, to Retire at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Rick Cotton, the executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2815Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Port Authority of New York and New Jersey<\/a>, who oversaw major revitalization efforts and infrastructure developments across New York City and parts of New Jersey, will retire in January, the agency announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Cotton, who held the role longer than anyone has since the 1940s, led the charge on a new LaGuardia Airport, delivering a turnaround for an airport once considered among the country\u2019s worst. He also guided one of the nation\u2019s busiest ports through the Covid-19 pandemic, a time of great supply chain disruption and uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who oversaw major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5915,8676,28251,5865,1087,1066,9,24,55,54,56,87,12621,28245],"class_list":["post-50514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-c-suite","tag-coronavirus","tag-generic-1st-ct-future","tag-infrastructure","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-port-authority","tag-rick-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}