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December 5, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsEncouraged by the success of the High Line in Manhattan, a group of Queens park advocates are rebooting a proposal to rehabilitate an abandoned rail line into a greenway.
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Source: DNAinfo.comA law curtailing blaring megaphones on city tour buses has had an unintended consequence — prompting at least one bus company to threaten to lay off its tour guides and replace them with automated recordings, reps for the tour guides' union said.
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Source: SI AdvanceAdvocates at the school, including a professor and the student government, are trying to make their case to the MTA, which continues to maintain that service can't be added because it would add cost.
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Source: variousElected officials representing Red Hook, Brooklyn have noted that on-time performance on the B61 bus line has fallen to 43%.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperThe MTA has sold its drab, two-story building at Wyckoff Street for $3.5 million — and the plans call for residential and commercial units at the site.
December 2, 2011
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Source: variousSeveral thousand labor union members have marched down Broadway to protest the nation's growing economic disparity. Thursday's March for Jobs and Economic Fairness included labor leaders and rank and file members from over 300 New York City and tri-state unions.
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Source: VariousFrom the NYDN: "City commercial office buildings are poised to become stinky and grimy if a labor dispute with 22,000 union cleaners isn't settled soon. The union representing the cleaners voted Thursday to permit their contract negotiating committee to call a strike over stalled wage talks."
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Source: NY Daily NewsNYC Transit officials have stopped running Brooklyn’s hippest train on Saturdays and Sundays nearly a dozen times since July citing needed track work, cable replacements, and fixing up a fence at the Canarsie rail yard. More blackout dates are expected to hit in February and March, a transit spokesman said yesterday, angering already peeved shop owners.
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Source: The Washington PostThe Republican war on unions continues apace. On a near-party-line vote Wednesday, the House passed a bill crafted to thwart a National Labor Relations Board decision, made earlier Wednesday, that would entitle workers to a timely vote on unionization once they’ve petitioned for it. By ruling that employers’ legal challenges can be entertained only after a vote, the board effectively denied employers the ability to hold up a vote for weeks, months or even years. Elections delayed, the NLRB essentially said, are elections denied.
December 1, 2011
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Source: NY1Upper East Side residents and businesses furious over construction problems caused by the building of the Second Avenue subway tried to channel their concerns into solutions during a meeting Wednesday night.
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Source: Transportation NationJust six weeks after an ugly and embarrassing showdown that shuttered the Federal Aviation Administration for several days, the House on Tuesday easily extended the agency’s authorization for four months. They even combined it with a six-month extension of controversial federal surface transportation legislation. The melded package passed the House on a voice vote.
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Source: CBS New YorkAs the bus system prepares for the transition, about half of the buses inspected are failing inspection and that’s creating all kinds of problems for riders like Stephen from Hempstead.
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Source: DNAinfo.comMANHATTAN — The revamped Roosevelt Island Tram celebrated its 1-year anniversary on Wednesday with little fanfare, but with the satisfaction of knowing that since the $25 million renovation, ridership has increased 13 percent.
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Source: Times Herald-RecordThe county's transportation council will share their findings to date and receive input on their operations plan for the next decade. An open house with the planning team will occur at 6:30 p.m. in the George Washington Elementary School cafeteria, 67 Wall St. The formal presentation will start at 7 p.m.
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Source: DNAinfo.comn unhinged Brooklyn man who went on a 28-hour stabbing rampage in Brooklyn and Manhattan pleaded guilty Wednesday to the horrific spate of violence, prosecutors said.
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Source: NY1New York City is very noisy, making it difficult for those with hearing problems to get around. But there is a high-tech solution being tested in the subway system that could be a major game changer for those with hearing aids. NY1's Health reporter Kafi Drexel filed the following report.
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Source: VariousFrom the New York Post: "Critics likewise note that Apple’s $60-a-square-foot lease is well below what many other tenants are paying — including a future Shake Shack burger joint that will be shelling out more than $200 a square foot, according to the leases, copies of which have been obtained by The Post."
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Source: NY TimesAfter decades of bitter relations, Boeing and the machinists’ union vowed a new era of cooperation on Wednesday as they announced a far-reaching four-year contract extension that would raise wages, improve pensions and add thousands of new assembly jobs in Washington State to build an updated version of its 737 jet.
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Source: WPIXIt didn't take long for cops to catch the guy they say robbed a woman on a Harlem subway platform. The man first hit last Friday at the 110th Street Central Park North Station, but now cops say he is behind bars.
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Source: NY TimesIt might take the Metropolitan Transportation Authority months to fix a broken escalator, but mess with the World’s Most Depressing Subway Poem and the agency will spring to action in a jiffy.
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