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March 24, 2011
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Source: Associated PressAnselmo Genovese faces charges related to his role as a project manager for New York-based 160 Broadway Concrete. The subcontractor was working on the high-rise construction project at 77 Hudson Street in Jersey City.
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Source: NY PostThe city’s plan to move MTA buses from Brooklyn to Queens has ignited a border war! Greenpoint residents pushed the city to secure a deal with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to relocate its bus depot from a waterfront lot on Commercial Street to a manufacturing-zoned asphalt patch in Maspeth.
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Source: MetroThe MTA is exploring selling or leasing its Madison Avenue headquarters.
March 23, 2011
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Source: WNYCThe tragic Triangle shirtwaist factory fire that killed 146 young women and girls -- most of them working class Eastern European immigrants -- 100 years ago this Friday paved the way for unions to organize workers in record numbers. The fire also engaged women in politics in a way that was unprecedented. It moved New York officials to put new workplace safety laws in place as well.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson - Journal NewsAssemblywoman Sandra Galef, D-Ossining, Westchester County, is sponsoring legislation that would require that the public have access to the proposed terms of collective-bargaining agreements in school districts and municipalities before any official vote. The proposed contracts would have to be posted online, giving residents more of a chance to “weigh in and become more involved,” Galef said in a statement.
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Source: Fox 5 NYJoseph Lozito, the man who subdued a suspected serial stabber on a subway train, is now planning to sue the NYPD and the city for damages.
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Source: StreetsblogIf John Mica meant to say that federal dollars devoted to transit will remain flat in the next transportation bill, that has very different implications than if he meant to say that transit will maintain its share of total transportation funding.
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Source: NY Daily NewsGov. Cuomo in his inaugural address wondered why the State Capitol has seemed so empty in recent years. Since his budget was introduced, he's gotten his answer -- particularly on Tuesdays.
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Source: MashableWe came across a useful Foursquare add-on Monday that texts real-time public transit schedules when connected users check in near a transit stop on Foursquare.
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Source: Fast CompanyA number of moves by different companies and organizations around the world seem to be confirming a long-held rumor is true: Wireless credit card payments using NFC (Near Field wireless Communications) are coming. And (although we ourselves have wavered a bit) they're coming soon.
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Source: Transportation NationA review of federal data shows inspectors issued a safety alert for about a third of all inter-city bus companies in New York State in the past month. The alerts are applied when a company rates in the bottom half nationwide of a safety category.
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Source: Transportation NationThe American Society of Civil Engineers gives New York its worst report card ever: 42 percent of bridges are structurally deficient, drinking water needs a $15 billion investment, and nearly half of major roads are in poor or mediocre condition.
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Source: NY TimesManhattan’s borough president is annoyed that Fifth Avenue’s street signs are marked East while its bus-stop signs say West.
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Source: Fox 5 NYNew York City mayor Michael Bloomberg returned fire against a barrage of TV commercials launched against him from the teachers' union by personally paying for his own ads at an estimated cost of $900,000 for six days, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
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Source: Epoch TimesMetropolitan Transit Authority's (MTA) Bridges and Tunnels division is ramping up its efforts to digitize information that will get commuter traffic flowing with greater ease. New electronic roadway signs and smartphone apps will update drivers on traffic conditions around bridges and tunnels in real time.
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Source: NY Daily NewsSubway picknickers who leave their messes behind rarely get fined for their trashy transgressions. Fewer than 2,000 subway riders - including those who eat while riding the rails - received tickets for littering last year, MTA statistics show.
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Source: WPIX
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Source: Wall Street JournalAs it struggles to close a $100 million budget gap, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is exploring selling or leasing some of the three million square feet of office space it controls.
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Source: amNYIs this a sign of waste?
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Source:As it struggles to close a $100 million budget gap, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is exploring selling or leasing some of the three million square feet of office space it controls.
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