Not sure what I’m looking at here…a protest poster? Def not a legit ad…?
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At rally for congestion pricing, gloves really coming off when it comes to direct digs at New Jersey politicians.
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MTA chairman Janno Lieber:
Congestion pricing is "gonna make sure that kids in the Bronx don't have asthma at higher rates, better air quality."
This says otherwise - leading MTA to spend $200M in mostly toll revenue to deal with it
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Here is a map of truck traffic increasing in red under one scenario charging drivers $23
Truck traffic hitting parts of BQE, approach to RFK, Cross Bronx Exp, to name a few
Reductions on the LIE, Van Wyck and parts of the Major Deegan
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Want to learn about congestion pricing, but don't want to read anything? Fine. Turn on 93.9 FM WNYC or wnyc.org and I'll tell you about it.
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Congestion Pricing updates: Happy release of final environmental assessment day for all who celebrate:
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Five flush award for most puns in one story goes to...
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“No. 1 Priority”: MTA takes next step to sniff out tech wiz that can sound the alarm on subway soakers who urinate in station elevators.
New in @THECITYNY: thecity.nyc/2023/5/10/2371
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gale brewer, just now, at a council hearing: "i know every blade of grass in manhattan"
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Standing on the Corner is a music collective that won’t be pinned down. nyti.ms/3M9Nmgd
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📻Listen to the incredible, -winning series here: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/d
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We won a Peabody for The Divided Dial! Congrats to OTM Executive Producer Katya Rogers, Sound Designer @jaredjaredpaul, Technical Director @munsonmuth, Producer Max Balton, and host Katie Thornton who reported and pitched the series.
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Definitely running a red light, nearly clipping a moped to do a u-turn…the driver said “be sure to send that in.” Ok… and…
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Call us skeptics about 's plan to give some drivers a 25-percent discount on congestion pricing tolls. That and other details in 's big scoop today.
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hua tweets this and then mere hours later, is awarded a pulitzer. related? possibly.
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“I just want people to know the positives. Jordan could have been housed but nobody cares.”
Who was Jordan Neely? Friends recall ‘sweet kid,’ talented performer killed in subway chokehold
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I’m at the Broadway-Lafayette station, where a crowd of people is protesting the killing of Jordan Neely on an F train yesterday.
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A few more NY budget bills have been printed.
Of interest: 50% of NYC casino revenue will be allocated for the MTA. For a casino on Long Island or in the Hudson Valley, 40% goes to the MTA.
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Tremendous lede Nolan.
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IT'S A B/F/D: MTA plans major boosts for midday/evening/weekend service by summer 2024:
- Every 6 mins for daytime 1/6 on weekends;
- 8 mins midday and evening service on the C, G, N/R, J/M *and* B/D
- 8 mins on weekends for the G/J/M
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An all time favorite album.
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Abdul Wadud’s cosmic cello music gets another moment in the sun. nyti.ms/3AJ3WwY
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Got those nearly 20 minute midday R train headways blues.
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what?! oh wait, i found it, just as anyone seeing this should find Mr. Spellman's "Four Lives In The BeBop Business" (1967) and his poetry collection, "Things I Have Known," published 2008 by
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The new 4-foot tall fare gates installed at Fort Totten has led to a 50 percent drop in fare evasion, Metro COO Brian Dwyer said today. The taller gates are being installed at all stations.
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Pretty nice beats in that new MTA video on station agents.
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"It has reached the point where the pace of that deterioration is accelerating and it’s spreading," said the MTA's CEO
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Janno is currently trashing the idea of building a new Penn Station entrance at 8th Avenue, which relies on demolishing the Hulu Theater and is the heart of the Pat Foye-involved plan to redevelop Penn
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Employers outside of New York City in the MTA region are part of the same regional economy that depends on a healthy MTA, and have a shared responsibility with all MTA stakeholders to make the MTA whole.
We strongly support an increased PMT for the entire MTA region.
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New: Exempting suburbs from a Payroll Mobility Tax increase would Cost the MTA $200 million
LIRR & Metro-North account for 25% of MTA operating costs — given their benefits from the MTA, suburban counties should be included in the tax.
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Whether you realize it or not, you’ve probably seen Peter Miller’s work. His photographs are honest, intimate, black-and-white snapshots that document Vermont’s people and a way of life Miller saw was disappearing.
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I was too slow to grab a photo, but I did witness a woman pressing her MetroCard to an OMNY reader today…dear reader, it didn’t work.
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A brand new R211 car hit with graffiti in Coney Island Yard Monday:
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Even as far as the MTA’s rollout, we did this explainer…last year….which is pretty helpful, but some details in it are already outdated: gothamist.com/news/mta-omny-
Latest news is here: gothamist.com/news/omny-vend
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It’s funny the transition from the token to the MetroCard, I’m sure it was bumpy but at least it was simple enough to understand, the sheer number of questions I’m getting about OMNY is very different.
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This weekend marked the 15 year anniversary for the inimitable on (and at ).
Here's some words about this beautiful and ingenious human, from a person with a front row seat to his brilliance (1/)
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Chair Lieber says the 13 rides to unlimited in one week starting any day not just Monday, will start after the “fare actions” AKA fare hikes later this year.
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Be still my heart, you can tap to pay for an OMNY card.
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New OMNY vending machines will be installed this summer, expected to be in every station by September. No “drop dead” date for MetroCard now at MTA. And…surprise there will be at least one OMNY turnstile at JFK AirTrain by Thanksgiving.
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New York City's vision of replacing Greenpoint's contaminated industrial shoreline with green spaces and a community of luxury towers remains incomplete — and may now be threatened by sea level rise.
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At Grand Central Madison for a surprise announcement.
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God loved the world so much that he sent to try the misbegotten cream-cheese-injected "tax-free" bagel so that our readers could be saved:
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I can't stop thinking about this morning's beautiful #NPR story about two Ukrainian children who were best friends in kindergarten but are now thousands of miles away from each other. did a wonderful job navigating the trauma. Must Listen.
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