Port Authority Sergeants Benevolent Association

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Your Executive Board is committed to improving the working conditions, benefits, and lives of our members. We have completely revamped this website as a private and secure method for keeping our membership up to date with issues relevant to you and your family. Within the next few weeks, we will be introducing an SBA mobile app to further extend our ability to provide members with the most up-to-date information in real time.

Please check back frequently as we will continuously update this site with events and news and information important to our members.

Robert Zafonte

President

SBA Survivor Fund

Puppies Behind Bars is a non-profit organization created 25 years ago to provide service dogs to veterans and first responders suffering from a physical injury or PTSD.

The Labrador Retriever puppies are raised in prison and trained by prisoners until they are ready to be placed. Two retired members of the PAPD have received dogs from this organization in the past.

Port Authority

Facilities and Services

THE PORT DISTRICT ENCOMPASSES A 25-MILE RADIUS
SURROUNDING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY AND CONSISTS OF ANY
BI-STATE CROSSINGS, INCLUDING THE AIRPORTS AND THE PORT.

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey conceives, builds, operates and maintains infrastructure critical to the New York/New Jersey region’s trade and transportation network. These facilities include America’s busiest airport system, marine terminals and ports, the PATH rail transit system, six tunnels and bridges between New York and New Jersey, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, and the World Trade Center.

Aviation

John F. Kennedy International Airport
LaGuardia Airport
Newark Liberty International Airport
Stewart International Airport
Teterboro Airport

Port Commerce

Port Jersey-Port Authority Marine Terminal
Brooklyn-Port Authority Marine Terminal
Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal
Howland Hook Marine Terminal
Port Newark

Tunnels & Bridges

Bayonne Bridge
Goethals Bridge
George Washington Bridge
Holland Tunnel
Lincoln Tunnel
Outerbridge Crossing

Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH)

Journal Square Transportation Center
PATH Rail Transit System

Bus Terminals

Port Authority Bus Terminal
George Washington Bridge Bus Station
Journal Square Transportation Center [operated by PATH]

Real Estate & Development

Bathgate Industrial Park
Ferry Transportation
Industrial Park at Elizabeth
The Teleport
Waterfront Development
Queens West Waterfront Development
The South Waterfront at Hoboken
The World Trade Center

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Bridging the Divide

The Port Authority’s first charge was to construct Critical interstate crossings in the late 1920s and early 1930s, including the George Washington Bridge, Outerbridge Crossing, the Goethals and Bayonne bridges. In 1930, the Port Authority assumed control of the Holland Tunnel. and in 1937, the first tube of the Lincoln Tunnel opened.

“The matter of Port development is
critical. It effects housing problems;
it affects the cost of living; it affects
the cost of doing business.”

Alfred Smith, Governor of New York Special message to the Legislature March 29, 1920.

In 1921, the states of New York and New Jersey received consent from Congress to form an interstate agency to develop and modernize the entire port district in order to improve commerce and trade. The port district centers around New York Harbor, and includes 1,500 square miles from both states.