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February 14, 2012
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Source: Fox New York
Smelly Subway Stations: MyFoxNY.com
Since I ride the subway to work daily, I asked train operators, who travel the entire system, which were the dirtiest, smelliest, ugliest subway stations. They named three.
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Source: New York Daily NewsA proposed $260 billion transportation bill is so hard on cities that it has Republicans and Democrats working together to lessen the blow.
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Source: New York Daily NewsWith the special elections on March 20 underway, the NYS AFL-CIO has chosen to endorse four candidates. Lew Fidler of Senate District 27, Shelley Mayer of Assembly District 93, Frank Skartados of Assembly District 100 and Didi Barrett of Assembly District 103 have been selected.
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Source: NY TimesDr. Stephen M. Levin, who played a leading role in bringing attention to the medical needs of thousands of firefighters, police officers and other rescue workers who breathed in the caustic dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, died on Tuesday at his home in Upper Grandview, N.Y. He was 70.
February 13, 2012
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Source: The Daily TarrytownThe proposed Tappan Zee Bridge needs some type of mass-transit component, officials from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign recently told the Sleepy Hollow Board of Trustees. The transportation organization is hoping to get the village board to pass a resolution in support of mass-transit and encourage state officials to include it at the onset of construction.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceThese people must have nerves of steel! First of all, they have to not only handle the bus, but must be messengers of good will for the Transit Authority.
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Source: CBS New YorkThe agency’s Board of Directors recently approved Joyce Gallagher’s appointment. She’s been overseeing the nation’s second-largest fleet of buses since December, managing a statewide bus network of more than 240 routes in nearly 400 towns.
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceBenjamin Franklin Murray, 43, was killed on Sept. 30, 2010, on the rain-slicked corner of Port Richmond and Post avenues, said police. Roberta Murray of Brooklyn, as administrator of the victim's estate, seeks unspecified monetary damages from New York City Transit and the bus driver.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe MTA can pay transit workers raises — and restore cut service — by tapping an obscure health care fund, Transport Workers Union Local 100 says.
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Source: WNYCOvernight subway service on a large part of New York’s City’s Seventh Avenue Subway line will be suspended from Monday to Thursday this week as part of the MTA’s so-called Fast Track program to fix subways more quickly without having to stop for train traffic.
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Source: UAW Media AdvisoryThe group of teaching, research and graduate assistants, members of Graduate Student Organizing Committee/UAW (GSOC/UAW) Local 2110, will leave New York early Friday arriving at the NLRB around 11:30 a.m. The workers will deliver a letter to the labor board requesting a decision be made on their nearly two-year-old petition for an election. A press conference will follow in front of the NLRB offices at 1099 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20570.
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Source: WPIXPolice have stepped up patrols around Metro North commuter train stations in the wake of a string of armed robberies -- the latest occurring on a street in Mamaroneck, where a 59-year-old man was attacked.
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Source: Dallas Business JournalThe Association of Professional Flight Attendants and Transport Workers Union plan to gather at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to protest what they say are “outrageous terms.”
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceOn average, the Verrazano sees about two suicides a year, and between four and six attempts foiled by officers patrolling the bridge, sources said. Those numbers are too high for Ms. Suero, who's gathering petitions, both in person and online, to ask the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to install a fence.
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Source: DNAinfo.comPolice searched Queens resident Javed Lescott, 31, for riding between subway cars at the Suthpin Boulevard-Archer Avenue stop and found the weapon.
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Source: Transportation NationThree New York City Republicans are expressing reservations about their party’s transportation bill. The legislation would stop funding mass transit through a federal gasoline tax for the first time in about three decades. Instead it would provide mass transit with a $40-billion dollar one time grant.
February 10, 2012
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Source: VariousFrom WABC: A MTA worker is being hailed as a hero after he helped stop a frightening sex assault on a subway platform in Lower Manhattan.
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Source: VariousFrom NY1: The Transport Workers Union has announces a winner in its infamous "Ugliest Subway Rat" photo contest. Michael Spivack took the winning photograph on the platform of the Seventh Avenue station at 53rd street and Broadway and had won a monthly MetroCard.
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Source: NewsdayEight Long Island state senators are urging MTA chairman Joseph Lhota to abandon a proposal to run Metro-North trains in and out of Penn Station, saying the move would increase congestion and decrease LIRR service at an already overcrowded portal.
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Source: NY TimesNearly a half-century has passed since the destruction of the great 1910 station designed by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White, a “monumental act of vandalism,” as an editorial in The New York Times called the demolition in 1963. A vast steel, travertine and granite railway palace of the people, the old Pennsylvania Station had declined by the end into a symbol of bygone Gilded Age opulence. It was replaced by Penn Plaza and Madison Square Garden, Modernist mediocrities, erected to serve real estate interests, with a new subterranean Penn Station entombed below.
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