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October 19, 2011
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Source: NY PostThe man who stabbed a total stranger to death on a D train two years ago -- because the person wouldn’t move his bag from the seat -- was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in jail. Gerardo Sanchez, 59, pleaded guilty in September to first-degree manslaughter.
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Source: Second Avenue SagasFor students of the history of New York City and its subways, abandoned stations and half-built shells offer up an alluring reminder of what was and what could have been. Scattered throughout the city are various platforms now shuttered and lost to the era of longer trains, and of course, the provisions that remind us of the grand plans for the IND Second System capture the imagination. We know of the shell at South 4th Street and a similarly hidden one at Utica Ave. But what of the other subway mysteries?
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Source:On the morning of October 12, Melissa Franchy boarded the B110 bus in Brooklyn and sat down near the front. For a few minutes she was left in silence, although the other passengers gave her a noticeably wide berth. But as the bus began to fill up, the men told her that she had to get up. Move to the back, they insisted.
October 18, 2011
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Source:The cash-strapped MTA is getting more than $113 million in federal money for new buses, a command center and other system improvements, the Obama administration announced Monday.
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Source: Matthew YglesiasThis Washington Post piece about America’s gigantic unmet infrastructure needs is pretty good, but in some ways I think it misses the obvious. The reason we don’t spend more money on infrastructure projects is that we have a gigantic Department of Defense, an escalating government tab for health care, and a refusal to raise taxes to accommodate that health care tab. Consequently, everything else is getting squeezed out.
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Source: City Room - NY TimesOff the Rails: A man claiming to be a subway conductor has earned minor celebrity status for hosting an anonymous question-and-answer session with riders.
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Source: AFL-CIO NowThe attacks on the middle class and the ability of public employees to bargain collectively are spreading from Wisconsin and Ohio to Long Island’s Nassau County, where a proposed bill would gives the county executive the right to unilaterally open contracts and decide what provisions the executive wants to retain, change or eliminate.
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Source: AFL-CIO NowUnion members joined Occupy St. Louis protesters and community activists for a more than 1,000- strong march and rally through downtown as part of the AFL-CIO’s America Wants to Work National Week of Action.
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Source: NY Daily NewsNew York City voters agree, 67% - 23%, with the Occupy Wall Street protesters' aims and say 87% - 10% percent that it's ok that they're demonstrating, a Quinnipiac University poll finds.
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Source: NY PostCalling it a 21st-century fix to a problem as old as paved roads, Mayor Bloomberg today unveiled a new online program that aims to eliminate the wasteful ripping up of just-paved streets by various agencies.
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Source: State of Politics / Journal-NewsThe union, the second largest in the state with 55,000 workers, said ballots would be mailed out immediately to its members and must be returned by Thursday, Nov 3 – when the counting would begin.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperThe new ferry service is doing even better than forecast, according to city figures released this week.
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Source: Wall Street JournalCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a potential 2013 mayoral candidate, plans to try to harness the anger of Occupy Wall Street protesters in a policy speech as she calls for a $2.5 million package of new initiatives to spur job growth.
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Source: Washington PostIt’s become an article of faith among some on the right, and even among some neutral commentators, that Obama and Dems risk losing the support of blue collar whites in swing states if they dare to whisper a word of praise for Occupy Wall Street. But what if the opposite is true — what if working class white voters actually like and agree with Occupy Wall Street’s message, if not always with the cultural and personal instincts of its messengers?
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Source: MetroAfter New Yorkers were captivated by a video of a man surfing the outside of an underground J train last week, Metro spoke to an expert on the secret — and dangerous — form of subterranean travel.
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Source: Second Avenue SagasNow, as Verizon looks to exit the pay phone business, the future for these underground communications lifelines may be short-lived. An article published last week by the Dow Jones Newswire didn’t gain much attention, but it features a key bit of information on the city’s subway system. Verizon is going to sell its NYC pay phone network to a California-based company called Pacific Telemanagement Services, and the buyers would like to disconnect all of the phones in the subway system. “At MTA, there’re many, many more phones in place than are justified,” Thomas Keane, the head of PTS, said.
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Source:An influencial development group in southeast Queens is taking the city to court to stop paying taxes on its parking garages and lots in Jamaica.
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Source: NBC New YorkSix people have been hospitalized following an early morning accident between a tour bus and a tractor-trailer in a suburb north of New York City.
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Source: NY Daily NewsHoping to build on the growing momentum led by the Occupy Wall Street movement in lower Manhattan, a group of union leaders and community activists is reiterating the call for a tax on some of the wealthiest New Yorkers.
October 17, 2011
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Source: The Journal NewsKate Slevin, executive director of Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a group that advocates for mass transit, said that not immediately including bus rapid transit went "against the facts and findings of a decade-long study process." "We're missing a grand opportunity here," said Slevin, citing state transportation studies that found that bus rapid transit had the highest suburb-to-suburb ridership. "The whole idea was to reduce congestion and provide a focal point for development for the Hudson Valley region."
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