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March 21, 2011
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Source: NY ObsererApple's plans to bring the world's largest iStore to Grand Central always seemed to defy laws of taste, landmarks preservation and possibly even physics.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA week after Ophadell Williams crashed a World Wide Travel bus on I-95, killing 15 people, Schumer urged the Department of Motor Vehicles to scrutinize the licenses of drivers of low-cost tour buses to ensure they're valid.
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Source: NY PostTrain service along the Northeast Corridor from New York to Washington was slowly returning to normal yesterday following a service disruption caused by an Amtrak voltage problem.
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Source: NY TimesA checkpoint for tour buses in New York City on Friday found violations among every one of the 14 inspected buses or their drivers, state officials said.
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Source: WCBS 880As two 640-ton machine began boring four tunnels to connect Long Island Railroad’s main line to the Grand Central Terminal, officials did a little celebrating and bragging.
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Source: NY Daily NewsCops said Friday they've collared the crazed man wanted for nearly killing an off-duty MTA worker at a Manhattan subway station early last month.
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Source:That was the rally's theme as time ticks away to March 27, the date the authority plans to cut service by 15 percent and eliminate 29 routes because of inadequate funding.
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Source: NY Daily NewsIf No. 7 train riders sometimes feel they are the unluckiest bunch of straphangers on the rails - with maddening delays and service changes - part of the explanation can be found in the underground darkness 17 flights below First Ave. and 42nd St.
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Source: NY Post"Dollar" vans are giving the MTA a run for its money in Brooklyn, as riders are increasingly choosing them over service-disrupted subway lines.
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Source: NY TimesDescribed by some historians as the single most important document in New York City’s history, the right-angled layout spurred unimagined development.
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Source: Wall Street JournalA much-heralded cost reduction program launched two years ago by New York unions and contractors to stimulate construction has come to a halt ahead of a major round of contract negotiations.
March 18, 2011
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Source:“This is something that could be of great consequence to the building trades,” said Gary La Barbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, an umbrella group for the construction unions. “We have never been supportive of prefab buildings, for obvious reasons.” After several years of delays, Forest City is under considerable pressure because of the difficulty in obtaining financing for the building and the weak real estate market. Work on the arena began a year ago. The developer has delayed the start date for the 34-story building, the first of the 16 planned for Atlantic Yards, several times. He now says he hopes to begin by the end of the year.
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Subway worker charged with faking signal inspections vows to beat criminal rap - New York Daily NewsSource: NY Daily NewsA subway worker confidently boasted Thursday morning that he would beat criminal charges that he faked signal inspections.
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Source: The NationOn March 25, 1911, a fire that broke out in a bin holding scraps of fabric at the Triangle Waist Company, just down the block from New York City’s Washington Square Park, quickly spread, fed by cotton garments, tissue paper and wooden fixtures. Though the building that housed the clothing manufacturer was modern and advertised as fireproof, the cramped layout of the factory, a locked exit door, a flimsy fire escape that soon crumpled and inadequate fire department equipment brought a staggering loss of life. Within a half-hour, 146 workers had died, mostly young Jewish and Italian women, nearly half still in their teens. Two were only 14. More than a third of the victims jumped or fell from upper-story windows trying to escape the flames.
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Source: Transit BloggerMTA New York City Transit announces that the 23rd Street-Ely Avenue IND Queens Boulevard (E, M) station has been renamed Court Square-23rd Street, in anticipation of the opening of the free transfer connection between the G and the 7 lines at Court Square. Changes in the subway maps and on our automated train announcements are already underway. New station signage will be appearing shortly.
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Source:Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn says there's been a spike in crime committed by youth on Metrorail and Metrobuses; last year they made up a little more than 500 of the approximately 2,000 arrests.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - SOUTH SHORE - Overcrowded buses, 40 stops on an express bus route and a vacant, all but useless, $9 million Pleasant Plains Park-and-Ride have Manhattan-bound commuters from the South Shore hunting for a solution to improve the way they get to work.
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Source: Journal-NewsThe company hired to replace part of the Tappan Zee Bridge's road went $29 million over budget and is to get $148 million more to finish it.
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Source: Los Angeles TimesMetrolink, which is racing to install such a system in the wake of 2008's deadly Chatsworth crash, blasts the national transit coalition's request. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and the NTSB also object.
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Source: NY Daily NewsNew York City's private computer army keeps mushrooming under Mayor Bloomberg - and no one has any idea of its exact size.
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