The Port Authority is listing eight types of historic brick from a Lincoln Tunnel retaining wall deconstruction on Orbit Exchange, a circular construction marketplace. Delivery begins August 14, 2026.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is selling salvaged historic bricks from a retaining wall deconstruction at the Lincoln Tunnel — eight distinct types, listed on Orbit Exchange, a New York–focused circular construction marketplace, for $2.25 each. Delivery begins August 14, 2026.

The listings cover a range of profiles: a buff-colored face brick (Type A.1) that lined the exterior of the retaining walls, a common red brick, and six additional shapes catalogued by type designation (B, C, G, H.2, A.2, and one with a diagram). Every variety is priced identically at $2.25 per unit.

The Lincoln Tunnel connects Weehawken, New Jersey to Midtown Manhattan through three tubes under the Hudson River. The first tube opened in December 1937; the retaining walls flanking the New Jersey approach date to that same construction era, making these bricks roughly 88 years old. The Port Authority, which operates the tunnel through its Tunnels, Bridges & Terminals division, has not issued a public statement about the specific deconstruction project driving the sale.

Orbit Exchange, a startup that launched in 2025 out of the design firm PROOF, runs a marketplace for salvaged, refurbished, and surplus construction materials in New York City, with the goal of reducing construction and demolition waste. The Port Authority's participation puts a major bi-state infrastructure authority into that circular-economy pipeline — a small sign of how public agencies with aging Mid-century infrastructure are beginning to handle the material that comes off when something finally gets torn down.