“It can take up to seven agencies to approve a very small event in New York City,” Clarke said, which could include any event that involves amplified sound or the sale of food
They’re all lovely! Work with a great crew —
As Gov. Hochul pushed for auto insurance reform, her robotaxi plans took a backseat, in part to appease labor groups that hate the driverless tech. Here’s how the two car policies got tied together
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/n...
A federal judge finally ruled today that the Trump administration acted illegally in trying to shut down New York's congestion pricing program, via @stefanoschen.bsky.social + Winnie Hu www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/n...
The Cross Bronx Expwy may be the most hated road. The 7-mile stretch runs like a scar over the poorest congressional district in the US, and all-day traffic contributes to high asthma rates. Can the state's $900M repair plan do more good than harm?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...
Update from Sean Butler in the the governor's office:
“East Harlem has been promised a subway connection for almost a century, and Governor Hochul will fight like hell to make sure this project gets built.”
The MTA is threatening to sue the Trump administration for withholding $58M that it's owed for the construction of the Second Ave Subway expansion. Federal reimbursements have been frozen since last year, for a contradictory list of reasons
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...
A BETTER BILLION, AMA: This is the latest report from the Transit Costs Project. It sought to take all the work we've done on subway construction and push it forward into a vision of what could/should be possible in NYC with a steady source of funding -- transitcosts.com/a-better-bil...
Thanks Karrie!!
Look, ma, I’m in the paper! Big thanks to Sarah Bahr for the great write-up and Angelina Katsanis for taking my picture on a cold N train platform
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Gov Hochul is backing off a plan to expand robotaxi pilots in Upstate New York, after fierce pushback from drivers and other labor groups (free link) w/ david mccabe
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/n...
NJ Transit is working to replace the reviled, 116-year-old Portal Bridge, which has delayed commuters entering Manhattan for years and years. But first, a month of painful service changes. Riders aren't thrilled.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...
i had the decency to do it BEFORE the presser
Announcing new bus lane projects on a Bx12 is a cool flex, can't lie. Standing room only for reporters
The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know.
Save this one and reshare it please! 📊
But the artists don't know how much longer they can stretch their MetroCard supplies. The MTA ended all sales of the card Dec 31, and the fate of the authority's remaining cards - stored in a secretive facility in Queens - remains unclear. They might even burn the cards in an incinerator
You can see much of this work starting March 16 in an exhibit exhibit at Grand Central Terminal curated by the @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social
www.nytransitmuseum.org
Juan Carlos Pinto makes a wide range of portraits and, lately, a series on the birds of New York. He just sold 4 pieces to a posh NYC Hotel for $8,000. Love this James Baldwin portrait
Nina Boesch makes whimsical collages of New York landmarks, like Katz's Deli and the Queensboro Bridge. She may have the biggest private stash of cards left in the city: 90k MetroCards, stashed away in secret locations
Thomas McKean, a children's book author who's become one of the best known MetroCard artists, has crafted collages and 3d models with the fare cards for a quarter century. This row of tenement cost him 1,000+ cards. Token, the dragon, is perched on top
Shih-Pao Lin, a Taiwanese artist, has been collecting MetroCards for over two decades. He used 30,000 (!) MetroCards to build a menagerie of statues inspired by the Chinese Zodiac, and is hoping to build much more. But he's down to his last few hundred cards.
Their art has never been more popular, and that's the problem. How long can MetroCard artists stretch their limited supplies? A 🧵 on some lovely art, and the stockpile of cards the MTA might choose to burn, rather than share with the artists
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...
2017 poll: Nearly 50% of Americans don’t know Puerto Ricans are fellow citizens www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/u...
any NYC Ferry uses on here who wanna chat about the suspension?
This is my fav x-men team
Really touching story about Mamdani's relationship with Richard Chow, a cab driver who has supported the mayor ever since he joined a hunger strike to help cabbies struggling with medallion debt. This is the mayor's base.
By Winnie Hu
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/n...
Gross www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
This is NOT me, tell them to kick rocks
