Media Links
September 28, 2011
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Source: Cap'n TransitThe most frustrating thing about the latest Census report is that it lumps together car commutes and transit commutes. Many people (for example, the Consumerist, the the Asbury Park Press, and the Los Angeles Times) recognize that an hour on transit is easier to deal with than an hour behind the wheel, but nobody seems to have bothered to separate them out.
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Source: NY Daily NewsGov. Cuomo began the process to lay off 3,500 workers Tuesday night after the state's second-largest employee union rejected a tentative contract that would have avoided job cuts.
September 26, 2011
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Source: ABC New YorkA growing political battle in Albany over legislation allowing livery cabs to pick up street hails in New York City's outer boroughs and Upper Manhattan.
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Source: Mocker / WPIX 11
See ya on Monday.
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Source: CBS New York
“We are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel,” said Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, who issued a report card on the project Saturday. “We have completed two tunnels five months ahead of schedule.”
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Source: Workday MinnesotaThe labor movement and labor media have a chance – if they’ll take it – to fill a void in trusted communications left by the decline in “old media,” the failings of “new media” and the timidity of the Democratic Party, says John Nichols of The Nation magazine.
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Source: NY Daily NewsA shocking new audit from city Controller John Liu discovered that city bureaucrats paid out $11.8 million in rent subsidies in recent years to nearly 4,000 people too dead to enjoy them.
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Source: NBC New YorkSome Upper East Siders working and living near the Second Avenue subway project are demanding reimbursement from the MTA for the damage they say they've incurred on their property.
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Source: Workday MinnesotaDan Swank knows Machinists are making history as they stand up to Boeing Company to maintain a standard of living that took decades to build.
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Source:Governor Cuomo has had little direct interaction with the heads of the MTA and Port Authority, the two authorities charged with overseeing New York City's most critical infrastructure, according to his newly released schedule.
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Source: DNAinfo.comThe Department of Transportation has refused a request by elected officials, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, to allow residents and business owners on West 34th Street to load during the day.
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Source: NY PostThe Nets hope they’re on the fast track to luring Wall Street titans and rich downtown residents away from Madison Square Garden.
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Source: NY PostThanks to the hikes, buses are now packed to the gills, NJ Transit and PATH trains are standing-room-only, and dust is gathering in Manhattan parking garages that used to be filled with commuters’ cars. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tolled_you_so_drivers_shun_nyc_IxdbL1axd40SiR2qNCD8hJ#ixzz1Z4COPLQA
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Source: Transit BloggerI received an e-mail from a reader named Brad who expressed how the map did not feature any of the planned work on the N. I happened to check the site at various times & noticed this to still be the case.
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Source: Wall Street JournalBolstered by its large number of government employees, Staten Island now has the highest median income in New York City, and it weathered the economic downturn better than any other borough, according to new Census data.
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Source: ABC New YorkCrews have finished repairing a water main break that shut down several lanes of the West Side Highway; which reopened Sunday night.
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Source: NY TimesFour underground subway stations in Manhattan will come alive on Tuesday with cellphone service.
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Source: NY TimesAt Ohio State, students are trying to stop a deal with an affiliate of the Dallas Cowboys that may have used sweatshop labor in El Salvador and Indonesia.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe price tag of a new Bronx water treatment plant has skyrocketed to $3.4 billion - nearly three times what the Bloomberg administration announced when construction began in 2004, the city's Independent Budget Office says.
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Source: NY TimesWith shrieks of “class warfare” going back and forth in Washington, a closer look at the data shows just what class warfare looks like.
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