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May 3, 2011

  • New placards promote MTA improvements
    Source: Second Avenue Sagas
    When the MTA introduced its new “Improving, Non-Stop” house ad campaign earlier this year, they did so, as I wrote at the time, with an eye toward Albany. The authority knew it had a an unfunded capital program with a $10-$13 billion gap, and officials knew they had to convince those who control the purse strings that the MTA is both moving forward and badly in need of that money. The PR campaign is going haltingly.

May 2, 2011

  • Trackman killed by train remembered: Sadness returns with each train's whoosh - New York Daily News
    Source: NY Daily News
    Bernadette Boggs stood on a subway platform at the Columbus Circle station as if in a trance. Wearing black jeans and a black Harley-Davidson jacket, the widow stared motionless toward the Seventh Ave. line. She didn't even appear to blink as trains arrived, departed or simply roared through the station on one of the four parallel tracks.
  • Anti-Union Forces Try to Knock Out New York City's Hard Hats
    Source: In These Times
    On Thursday, construction workers held hard hats in thick hands in the glow of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan. In honor of International Workers' Memorial Day, they solemnly honored the sacrifices of fellow workers who had been injured or killed on the job. The scene embodied the heavy legacy of the city’s building trades: the labor that sculpted gotham's majesty, muscular but embattled, angled precariously against the city's powers that be.
  • Teen wants MTA to revive X-bus to Manhattan - YourNabe.com
    Source: YourNabe

    Teen wants MTA to revive X-bus to Manhattan
    YourNabe.com
    Gianaris wrote a letter to MTA Chairman Jay Walder Tuesday requesting that the QM22 be restored. He said he had opposed the initial elimination of the line. “We need that express service here as much as anyone,” Gianaris said.
  • Consultant Scammed $3.6 Million from City Schools, Officials Say
    Source: DNAinfoc.om
    Ross Lanham allegedly scammed the city for more than six years, as IBM and Verizon stood by, according to a report.
  • Thomson Reuters and Newspaper Guild End 26-Month Dispute
    Source: NY Times
    The pact calls for a 4.6 percent raise over three years and also settles a complaint over an employee’s Twitter posting.
  • G.O.P. Union Support in Florida
    Source: NY Times
    Public employee unions in Florida, reminding the G.O.P. of past support, have persuaded some Republicans to oppose a bill meant to weaken unions.
  • Kawasaki commits to Yonkers - Westfair Online
    Source: Westfair Online
    Kawasaki Rail Car Inc. will keep hundreds of jobs in downtown Yonkers with a $25-million investment in its U.S. corporate headquarters and manufacturing plant there, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday.
  • As Gas Prices Climb, So Does Bus Ridership
    Source: WNYC AM
    Ahead of the busy summer travel season, inter-city bus ridership continues to climb despite the trio of recent crashes in the Northeast.
  • Karsan, From Turkey, Is Rejected as New York Taxi
    Source: NY Times
    The Karsan van has been rejected by the Taxi and Limousine Commission, according to a city official who has been informed of the decision, and who insisted on anonymity because it had not been made public. The rejection came after a review raised concerns about whether the Turkish company, untested in the American market, could reliably execute the high-concept product it had designed.
  • CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: Buzzer beater! Ratner workers will toil longer, and on Saturdays, to get arena done
    Source: Brooklyn Paper
    And on the seventh day, Bruce Ratner won’t rest.
  • NJ Transit can't stop yappin'
    Source: NY Post
    The Garden State doesn't know how to shut up. New Jersey Transit debuted its own "Quiet Commute" program in January, adding a silent section to all trains in and out of Penn Station during the morning and the evening rush hours.
  • Hey, taxi! Marty hails Turkish cab maker — and the jobs it will bring
    Source: NY Post
    Now that’s how you hail a cab.Borough officials spent Sunday morning cheering Turkish automaker Karsan, a politically connected company promising hundreds of Brooklyn jobs if its design is chosen as the city’s next yellow cab.“I hope that city officials will seriously consider taking a ride with...
  • NYC holds May Day rally for workers, immigrants
    Source: ABC 7
    Labor leaders from Wisconsin are joining New York activists to march for the rights of America's immigrants and workers.
  • MTA 'clocks' bus big with her own E-ZPass
    Source: NY Post
    A top NYC Transit official is in hot water after agency investigators used her company car's E-ZPass records to trace her alleged early exits from work and time-sheet fudging, sources said.
  • City slower in responding to firetraps
    Source:
    New Yorkers who think they live near an illegally subdivided apartment can call the city Department of Buildings about the potential firetrap. Just don't hold your breath waiting for the agency to respond.

April 29, 2011

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