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December 22, 2011
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Source: In These TimesOn Tuesday, the company's anti-union campaign resulted in flight attendants at Virgin America voting down union representation 324 to 223. Some workers are crying foul. “I guess we’re no longer a ’Virgin’ anymore,” said Ramon Wood, Virgin America flight attendant based at JFK. “The company said we were all on the same team. But when we stood up for a voice on the job, they started a ruthless anti-union campaign.”
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Source: NY Daily NewsA little noticed provision in the new taxi deal leaves Gov. Cuomo holding a big hammer over the head of Mayor Bloomberg, the Daily News has learned. The deal announced Tuesday authorizes the city to sell 2,000 new yellow cab medallions — a move that could raise $1 billion for the cash-strapped city. But Bloomberg will need additional okay from Team Cuomo before the city can bank most of that money.
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Source:Budget is passed, without fare hikes or service cuts, but also without restoration of recently lost bus and subway service.
December 21, 2011
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Source: Transportation NationIf the NY MTA is on a ten-mile march toward cashless tolling on its nine bridges and crossings, it has, roughly speaking, just passed the two mile mark and is going strong. But authority spokesman Judie Glave insists it could still quit any time.
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Source: Transportation NationNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday a deal that would expand taxi service in Upper Manhattan and the outer boroughs, by allowing livery cabs to pick up street hails, and meet concerns about ensuring wheelchair accessibility.
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Source: Transportation NationThe agency did not downgrade MTA debt, but it did warn that “failure to restore the lost revenue may put negative pressure on the MTA’s transportation revenue bonds.”
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Source: Stamford AdvocateAfter a successful run on the Hudson and Harlem lines, Metro-North Railroad will try out so-called quiet cars on New Haven Line trains during rush hour beginning next month to accommodate riders who wish to travel free of phone conversations and other threats to serenity, officials said.
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Source: NY1A new report by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is taking a closer look at the Christmas Blizzard of 2010 and the agency's response.
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Source: WPIXNeighbors who take the 6 train from the Buhre Ave Station in Pelham Bay say the man who exposed himself on the subway Thursday night better hope the cops catch him before they do.
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Source: NY PostGov. Cuomo has reportedly been considering the use of public-pension funds to finance the replacement of the Tappan Zee Bridge and other infrastructure investments in New York. This is a bad idea, harmful both to the state’s government employees and its taxpayers. Using public-pension monies in this fashion trades the immediate benefits of public construction for the long-term cost of underfunded public-retirement plans.
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Source: Wall Street JournalOn Saturday afternoon, New Yorkers decked out in their finest period clothes to ride the city’s “Nostalgia Train” along the M line from lower Manhattan to Queens and back. It looked like a Hopper painting in motion as musicians, swing dancers, flappers packed into vintage cars that featured padded wicker seats, bygone advertisements and ceiling fans.
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Source: WKBW News 7Henry Sloma, NFTA acting chairman, admits he is more than miffed at New York state, which allocated $250 million aid to New York City's cash-poor Metropolitan Transit Authority but rejected a request for $10 million, made earlier this fall, by the local transit authority. "I thought we'd at least get honorable mention," Sloma said.
December 20, 2011
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Source: The Brooklyn InkThree years after Edwin Thomas was murdered on the B46 in broad daylight, his family mourns his death.
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Source: NY TimesThere is an indefinable something about a so-called living wage bill that puts New York’s leaders at risk of breaking out in socialist hives. Advocates have amended, sanded down and liposuctioned their bill in hopes of pleasing the mayor and the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn.
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Source: NY TimesJay H. Walder [,…] left his post as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in October to run MTR Corporation, which oversees Hong Kong’s subway and commuter rail systems. Mr. Walder listed his apartment, described on on Stribling and Associates’ Web site as a “mint condition 3 bedroom, convertible 4 just steps from Central Park,” for $1.795 million. […] But Mr. Walder’s apartment still has not attracted any buyers, and Mr. Walder cut its price a few weeks ago to $1.735 million. On Friday the property was temporarily pulled from the market.
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Source: Main StreetThis shouldn’t be particularly complicated. Two key policies keeping working families afloat—a temporary cut in the payroll tax and an extension of the time people out of work can draw unemployment insurance—are set to expire in a matter of days, pulling money out of the pockets of millions.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe number of cops patrolling the subways has dropped while crime underground has risen sharply, officials revealed Monday.
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Source: MetroNYPD Transit Bureau Chief Joseph Fox said yesterday the theft of pricey electronics “fueled this year’s increasing crime.”
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Source: am New YorkThe cash-strapped agency's board passed on a proposal Monday to undo some of the massive service cuts it made last year, axing dozens of bus routes and two subway lines to save $93 million.
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Source: Transportation Nation“Unfortunately, the Senate Republican Leadership refused to negotiate any tax extenders, including the mass transit benefit, energy efficient homes credits, and college tuition deductibility. We are going to fight hard to extend these vital middle-class tax breaks in January and I am hopeful we will be able to get it done,” Senator Schumer said in a statement.
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