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The Great Conservative Tax Swindle Part II: How Pataki sold out the MTA (but...
The metropolitan transit system is the most developed mass transit system in the United States. It carries workers (including me) from their houses to their jobs inside and outside the five boroughs....
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Violence on the rise in NYC?
The New York Times reported today that a bus driver was stabbed to death in Bed-Stuy on December 1st, 2008. It was the first fatal attack on a bus driver in 27 years. We also found out today that the...
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The larger pattern
A study released on Monday showed that from 2003 to 2007 New Yorkers (such as myself) left their cars at home — or abandoned them entirely! — to take the train or bus. An article in the New York Times...
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The UAE: Turning sunlight into gold
Dubai is a palace of excess and contradition. It is a mushroom that paradoxically bloomed under the whithering rays of the sun. But the leadership of the UAE is a lot smarter than anyone in America...
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Shovel ready projects in NYC
What’s the news on NYC’s slice of the stimulus money? I hear complaints from conservatives that the money isn’t going to “shovel ready projects,” and then I hear complaints from liberals that the money...
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Bad news for 21st century American growth
There’s plenty of uncertainty on what the future holds, but one thing is for sure, the 21st century will not be like the 20th. While Obama and Gordron Brown try to convince the Europeans not to take...
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Subway art intervention — April 2009
Two art interventions caught my eye the other day, so I thought I’d share. The one above is more obviously hipster ironic than the one below. The one below is just great art. (I hope you can see the...
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Obama pledges aid to rail
Yay! Obama announced a plan to invest $8 billion in high speed and existing rail projects! This is a welcome change from the plan of the past administration to strangle Amtrak and throw it in a tub to...
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Subway art intervention — special issue!
The folks on the G line near Pratt have been especially creative recently, so I thought I’d share their work with the rest of you. The one above is a sentimental mash up that shows how sports cheese...
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Subway art intervention May 2009
A picture is worth a thousand words — especially when the letters have been rearranged to spell “vomit.” What more needs to be said?
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