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September 26, 2011
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Source: NY TimesUnions are seizing on last year’s Supreme Court campaign finance ruling to change how they engage in politics and counter corporate money flowing into conservative groups.
September 23, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsA giant boring machine plowed through a wall of bedrock at the 63rd St. station at Lexington Ave., marking the completion of the long-delayed subway line's first leg.
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Source: ABC New YorkThe teachers union is troubled over class sizes.
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Source: Transportation NationNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo met repeatedly in the first eight months of the year on marriage equality, the property tax cap, and even farmer’s markets. But his schedule from January 1- August 31, made available online Thursday, shows no meetings or phone calls with Port Authority chief Chris Ward or Metropolitan Transportation Authority CEO Jay Walder.
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Source: YourNabe.comFlushing’s state legislators joined with the local transportation workers union Tuesday afternoon in support of a nationwide initiative to stop the bleeding of federal and state dollars from transportation coffers.
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Source: Daily Mail (UK)Staffing cutbacks have allowed the rat population to explode on the New York subway as rubbish goes uncollected and refuse storage rooms are inadequately sealed, MTA empoyees say.
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Source: DNAinfo.com
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Source: DNAinfo.comCops ushered straphangers out of the Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street station around 5:40 p.m. and blocked off the entrances with police tape and barricades.
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Source: NY PostFormer Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union President Douglas LaChance died Wednesday. He was 69.A wake is to be held tomorrow and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Perry Funeral Home in Lynbrook, LI.
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Source: YourNabe.comA thank you is in order for the more than 40,000 employees of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority who work for New York City Transit’s subways and buses, MTA Bus, the Long Island Rail Road, Long Island Bus, Metro-North Railroad and the Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority (“Service restored after storm,” Sept. 1).
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Source: Fox 5 NYFox 5 has been investigating the story of broken escalators inside subway stations for months. One station on the East Side where a broken escalator isn't the only issue. It has two broken escalators and a broken elevator.
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Source: NBC New York
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Source: WPIX 11
Parents with children who go to Junior High School 194 in Queens are scared to death for their kids new school commute.
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Police are seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect wanted in connection with a robbery and attempted rape on the F train in Brooklyn early Wednesday morning.
September 22, 2011
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Source: StreetsblogMTA New York City Transit is continuing its Alternatives Analysis (AA) Study which will look at improving transit service on the North Shore of Staten Island.
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Source: Fox 5 NYSome subway stations Fox 5 visited Wednesday were smelly -- a pungent stink that is hard to describe. We saw a rat amidst garbage and stagnant water at the Sutphin Boulevard E train stop in Jamaica, Queens. But we were more interested in the smell there.
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Source: amNYRats are taking over the city’s subways and the MTA isn’t doing enough to stop it, transit workers said Wednesday.
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Source: Western Queens GazetteFull funding allotments scheduled this year, totalling almost $4 billion, to complete two major New York City transit projects, the Second Avenue Subway and the East Side Access project, have been approved by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, HUD, Congressmember Carolyn Maloney (D–Queens/Manhattan) announced.
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Source: WNYCNew Yorkers fret about finding parking spots and traffic congestion, but it turns New Yorkers are most likely griping about this while they’re getting to work on a train or bus.
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Source: NY Daily NewsMTA budget and staffing cutbacks have caused the rat population to explode in the subway system, transit workers charged Tuesday.
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