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June 9, 2011
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Source: Fox 5 NYThe stagehands' union is planning a picket line outside the Tony Awards — complete with a giant inflatable rat.
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Source: DNAinfo.comAdam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem is one of the most dangerous streets in the city.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
Expired Tickets for MTA Railroads: MyFoxNY.com
Fox 5 has a warning for riders of Metro-North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road. The tickets you're buying may end up costing you a lot more than you think.
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Source: Albany Watch / Journal-NewsRepublican Sens. Greg Ball of Carmel, Putnam County, and Lee Zeldin of Shirley, Suffolk County, and Assemblyman George Latimer, D-Rye, Westchester County, are sponsoring legislation that would exempt small businesses with 25 or fewer employees and schools outside New York City from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s payroll tax beginning Jan. 1, 2012. It would phase out the tax for all other businesses in Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District counties outside New York City by Jan. 1, 2014.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson / Journal NewsAmid silent negotiations for a new labor contract, the state’s major unions uniformly bashed Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s bill to cut back pension benefits for new employees, which was formally introduced Wednesday.
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Source: NY State AFL-CIO press releaseThe following statement was issued by Denis Hughes, President of the 2 ½ million member New York State AFL-CIO.
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Source: North Country GazetteThe Massapequa operators of a Suffolk County fence company pleaded guilty Wednesday to scheme to defraud charges for submitting false invoices to the New York City Transit Authority over a five year period from 2003 to 2008.
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Source:The city has proposed altering a 181st St. taxi stand, but many locals never knew it was there in the first place.
June 8, 2011
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Source: City RoomOff the Rails: A station in Queens cracks the list of the top 10 most heavily trafficked subway stations.
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Source: NY Daily NewsBronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is hailing his own plan for expanding taxi service in the outer boroughs.
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Source: WPIX 11Reports said 12 passengers were on the Coach USA bus at the time of the collision. The extent of injuries weren't immediately known.
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Source: Prescriptions - NY TimesThe not-for-profit insurer has come under criticism for high rate hikes and high executive compensation.
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Source: NY Daily NewsFor those craving news NOT about Anthony Weiner, here's the latest from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who says NYC's May 2011 financial plan "projects a surplus of $3.2 billion for FY 2011, resulting largely from a drawdown in reserves, higher revenues due to an improving economy, and agency.
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Source: Second Avenue SagasMTA New York City Transit and the New York City Department of Transportation invite the public to discuss transit service, traffic conditions and pedestrian safety on Staten Island’s Hylan Boulevard during an Open House that will be held on Wednesday, June 8, at The Renaissance Conference Center in the Grant City section of Staten Island beginning at 7 p.m.
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Source: NY1Some Brooklyn residents are keeping worried watch on the elevated train tracks that pass through their neighborhood.
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Source: Transportation NationThe cost of New Jersey’s fight with the federal government over a bill for the canceled trans-Hudson tunnel project is mounting The US Department of Transportation wants NJ Transit to return $271 million it gave the state for the ARC tunnel. The digging had been underway for a year when Governor Christie killed the project.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
Port Authority May Seek Toll Hike: MyFoxNY.com
By the end of the year, the Holland Tunnel toll could go from $8 to $10. The toll hike could be trial that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Hudson River crossings, to gauge public opinion.
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Source:The wife of a 92-year-old man who fell through a Long Island train-platform gap said she wishes she knew the name of the "wonderful young man" who helped pick him up. Dorothy Goldman also praised Long Island Rail Road personnel who helped her husband on Sunday night in Great Neck.
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Source: Economix - NY TimesIt is supply -- the huge number of students seeking full-time work -- that drives the labor markets in the summer, rather than demand, an economist writes.
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Source: Second Ave. SagasWhen the MTA releases their annual breakdown of subway ridership by station, I tend to spend far too much time playing with these numbers. The new figures came out yesterday and are available here on the MTA’s website and here as a sortable Excel file.
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