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MTA Board Set to Vote on $3 Fare Next Week (NY1, Post) Scientists Are Tracking Sea Level Rise in NYC; The News Is Not Good (NYT) Cuomo Wants Authority to Change State Budget on the Fly (Politico) N Express Tunnel to Be Shut for a Year to Fix Storm Water Damage (Bklyn Paper) Brooklyn CB 2 Committee Endorses Amity […]

NYPD on Defense After Hit-and-Run Trucker Kills Pedestrian (News, News 12, DNA, Post) Uber Driver Arrested for Killing Henry Boimel, 67, in Queens Crosswalk (DNA, News) Preet Sues NYC DOT for Racial Discrimination (Politico) Post: Straphangers Will Pay Higher Fares So Cuomo Can Look Good Wasting Money on Synchronized Bridge Lights — Cuomo Wasn’t Kidding (CBS) MTA Failed to Implement Safety Protocol That Could’ve Prevented […]

Ydanis and 33 Other CMs Urge de Blasio to Fund Citywide Bike-Share (News) Will the Next MTA Chief Overcome the Agency’s Institutional Inertia? (TransitCenter) CBC: New MTA/TWU Contract Will Cost Straphangers (DNA, Post) Cuomo and Trump to Discuss “Infrastructure” Today (NYT) Cuomo Budget Includes “Setting Light Shows to Music” at Bridges (NYT, Politico) NYC’s Failure to Manage Curb Space […]

Victims’ Families: De Blasio’s Not Doing Enough to Prevent Traffic Deaths (News) This Reflective Tape on Seniors’ Canes Will Do the Trick, Right? (News) TWU Prez Samuelson Beaming Over New Contract With MTA (NYT, News, AMNY) The Yellow Cab Industry Ain’t What It Used to Be (NYT) Donovan Richards: Bring Woodhaven Blvd SBS Over to Eastern Rockaway (TL) DOT […]

Will Trump Back Gateway? Who Knows! (Politico) This Villager 14th Street Piece Is Mashugana, Right Down to the Photo Caption Livery Driver Hits Child on Brooklyn Sidewalk; NYPD: “Medical Episode” (News, Post) Nothing to See Here: Bronx Officer Indicted for Driving Drunk in NYPD Patrol Car (Post) De Blasio to Develop Vacant Lots for 440 Affordable Housing Units (News) DDC’s […]

Tri-State: The Port Authority Capital Plan Isn’t Grounded in Reality Cuomo’s Roster of Wasteful Pet Projects May Include Downtown Syracuse Traffic Tunnel (Politico) Four BPs Call on City to Subsidize Transit Fares for NYers With Low Incomes (News) GWB Bus Terminal Developers Will Face the Public in February (Patch) Broken Rail Delays Thousands of LIRR Commuters (Post, AMNY) Driver Critically Injures 65-Year-Old […]