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One Con-Ed Malfunction Tortured Subway Riders Throughout the System Friday (NYT, Post, AMNY, NY1) Turning Cab Driver Kills Manikam Srymanean at York and 78th; No Charges (Gothamist, Post) Drunk Off-Duty Cop Critically Injures Woman at Van Wyck On-Ramp (Post) Crumbling Paint From 7 Train Trestle a Health Hazard to Everyone Who Lives Nearby (Post, QChron) Scenes From a Wet Car-Free Broadway […]

Looks Like Cuomo Will Soon Be in Charge of the Port Authority (Politico) Transit Champion Chris Christie Still Huffing and Puffing About Amtrak (Politico) Watchdog Groups Contest NYPD Body Camera Policies (Politico) Motorist Severely Injures Person Walking on Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park (DNA) What It’s Like to Depend on Buses in the Northwest Bronx […]

NYPD Wants DA Vance to Bring Charges Against Truck Driver Who Killed Kelly Hurley (DNA) Booker and Christie Team Up to Press Trump on Gateway (Politico) Cuomo’s New Chief of Staff Is Married to Uber Lobbyist (NYT); Got a Problem With That? (Politico) Silverstein Exec Who Oversaw WTC Rebuild to Manage MTA Capital Projects (MTA) Bus Turnaround Campaign Tracks How […]

Reynoso to NYPD: Demonizing Delivery Workers Isn’t Making Streets Safer (News) Transit Advocates Not Impressed by Cuomo’s Wi-Fi Buses (AMNY) Chris Christie Counting on NJ Transit Users to Forget Years of Willful Neglect (MTR) Parks Department Considers Decriminalizing Bike Riding (AMNY) SUV Driver Who Hospitalized Third Ave. Pedestrian: “I Didn’t See Her … She Was So Small” (DNA) DOT […]

De Blasio Admits Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar May Not Pay for Itself (AMNY, News) Daily News Ready to Pull the Plug on BQX Peak Ferry Hype (DNA) Evidence That Upper East Siders Switched From Cabs to the Second Ave Subway (AMNY) Christie and Amtrak Trade Barbs Over Friday’s Train Outage Under the Hudson (Post, WNYC) City Finalizes Contract Shifting Trash Hauling […]

Dan Donovan Asks MTA to Study Returning the Verrazano to Two-Way Tolls (Bklyn Paper) Daily News Fed Up With Cuomo Robbing Transit Riders In the State Budget: More of Cuomo’s Pet “Economic Development” Projects, Less Oversight (Gotham Gazette) NJ Transit Train Immobilized for Hours Under the Hudson on Friday (AMNY), Then Hell Broke Loose (WNYC) During […]