nyc reporter, editor, co-publisher of @HellGateNY (also crobbinshg.bsky.social) work in @nymag @streetsblognyc formerly @Gothamist @VillageVoice
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Justin Clark was an endearingly strange and uncommonly brilliant human being who immersed himself in the study of psychedelic drugs. How did he develop an addiction to obscure dissociatives?
My story for New York Magazine:
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had to check in on my favorite benchless train station during the xmas rush hellgatenyc.com/moynihan-tha…
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Here is @katie_honan confronting @NYPDDCPI with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that @Columbia itself sold to their students
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“We’re a bunch of New Yorkers trying to take back this public space and make a message.”
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>@ZohranKMamdani pulls @bradlander up on stage
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"The NYPD is arresting, on average, four people who are trying to film the police, every single day."
Including this adorable dog named Harvey!!!
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"I literally talk to people all day long who live in their Hamptons house, who used to live [in NYC]," Governor Cuomo says, in explaining why he cannot support a billionaire's or millionaire's tax
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Governor Hochul: Illegal weed stores are selling products contaminated with fentanyl
NY state's legal weed agency: We have never seen an instance of this happening
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If you’re wondering why you’ve been stuck in a car on the Williamsburg Bridge for an hour: The NYPD is checking every vehicle coming into Manhattan for any possible infractions
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>@GovKathyHochul just said she decided to kill congestion pricing because the owner of this Midtown diner said his New Jersey customers weren't going to....drive into his Midtown diner anymore?
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"Despite his relatively uninspiring persona" geez louise
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The NYPD arrested and jailed a cyclist for fixing a driver's illegally obscured license plate.
"They're basically conspiring with drivers to obstruct their plates."
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Judge Arthur Engoron begins hearing oral arguments over the congestion pricing lawsuits with a remark to the courtroom:
"I got a ride into Manhattan today, and the traffic was terrible. Can't anything do something about that?"
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NYT DealBook conference at the end of the month gonna be interesting
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As @andrewcuomo pulls away from his polling site on East 56th a HS student heckles him for telling the NYT he likes a “bacon cheese and egg” on an english muffin.
“What about your bagel order?!”
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MTA buses are about to get the power to ticket basically every bad driver on the streets
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Just ~1.5% of all commuters into NYC's central business district were going to pay the congestion pricing toll.
By killing congestion pricing, this is who @GovKathyHochul is favoring
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if the newspaper I worked for ran this front page I'd be fucking livid but that's just me hellgatenyc.com/ny-post-pure…
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The NYPD used a staggering amount of resources to corner one Black Lives Matter organizer today in his home gothamist.com/news/nypd-bang…
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"I'm not here today to talk to you about numbers" @GovKathyHochul told New Yorkers when she announced a National Guard deployment into the subways.
Some relevant numbers:
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Governor Cuomo unveiled a new line of NY-branded hand sanitizer, NYS Clean. It's made by Corcraft, a state company that uses prison labor, and pays prisoners an average of 65 cents an hour
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guy selling me $8/lb peaches at the Union Square farmer’s market is wearing a Rolex
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"Since 2011, I've been monitoring protests. This is the first time they ever decided to go after me. So I was like, whoa, the game just changed right now."
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"I already regret not intervening, and I'm not sure why I couldn't. Part of it was shock. Part of it was everyone being so focused on getting the police there. There just was not a lot of compassion for the person lying on the floor, not breathing."
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For @Curbed I took a stroll around Hoboken to figure out how they've managed to avoid a single traffic fatality in four years
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Got laid off from @Gothamist/@WNYC today. Grateful for the work I was able to do, for my wonderful colleagues, and for my time as a @SAGAFTRANY shop steward. Please do send any work leads my way!
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The BQE is flooded, neighborhoods are flooded, the MTA is literally telling people to not take the train, but New Yorkers have yet to hear from their mayor today
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FWIW, the same New Yorkers polled in April who said they didn't support congestion pricing, 44 percent (!) also said "I really don't go to Manhattan"
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This driver took off his license plates so he could park in the bike lane, then screwed them back on when he came out of the store. Whatta town.
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New Yorkers use OMNY to get on the bus.
MTA cops board, asking everyone for proof of payment.
MTA cops fail to verify OMNY payment using gadgets.
New Yorkers get kicked off bus.
@MaxRivlinNadler has the story
(The MTA denies this is even happening)
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"We have to push back on this narrative that the city is out of control," @NYCMayor, who is one of the biggest purveyors of this narrative over the last two years, just told reporters
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Here's the full diner exchange at the end of the press conference, rush transcript from me
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I asked Senator Ramos if she was happy to make this endorsement. She heard my question but did not respond
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Interesting amount of butt stuff in this tweet about congestion pricing
Imagine being such an asshole as to celebrate screwing New Yorkers out of their hard earned money just for the privilege to drive to work. We will end this scam!
Simply put, the @MTA needs an enema starting with John Lieber.
And @GovKathyHochul needs to be defeated in 2026!
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If you are sitting in NYC traffic honking your horn repeatedly, you should have to get out of your car, put on a diaper, and poop your pants because you are a little bitty baby who needs his diaper changed wah wah
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Those gross viral videos on the subway literally exist to turn our brains into mush, so that we keep staring at the screens when actual ads appear. Whatta town.
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How do you write a story about congestion pricing being terminated without mentioning that congestion has in fact, eased in Manhattan since it began? Feels like something an editor should have caught but maybe not
President Trump will pull approval of New York City's congestion tax. @LevineJonathan @nypost has the scoop: nypost.com/2025/02/19/us-new…
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As protesters surrounded ICE HQ on Saturday, the FDNY responded to a call of someone stuck in an elevator.
The call was bogus. Meanwhile, an ICE van left the building using a path cleared by the fire truck.
"They used us," a firefighter told @macfathom
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"Governor Hochul's spine was last seen driving a Hummer on the New Jersey Turnpike."
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"He essentially called us petulant children. Called us detached people. But we were protesting him because we're not detached, we're conscious of the things he's doing and how he's harming our city”
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Wandered Lower Manhattan yesterday talking to people about congestion pricing, including
-A cop who says he'll take LIRR to work now
-A garage attendant who says he'll walk to work
-A deliverista from the LES who loves CP
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How badly does @NYCMayor want city office workers back in the office 5 days a week?
Workers with cancer and risk of severe COVID are having their hybrid schedule requests denied.
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Eric Adams won on a public safety platform. This is public safety
Two teenagers drowned on Rockaway Beach last night, along a stretch of beach that the city has elected not to staff lifeguards at this summer. One witness recalled talking to a victim’s friend, who was frantically searching for a lifeguard gothamist.com/news/it-could-…
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The MTA also loses hundreds of millions of dollars every year to drivers who evade tolls but for some reason the Post et al don't complain about them as much
The MTA states its losing $119M per quarter due to fare evasion.
That's $1.32M per day.
@ $2.75/ride that's a minimum of 480,808 rides that are not paid for each day.
@ 320 summons per day, the chance of getting caught is .0666% for people evading the fare or 1/1503.
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"Would you be quiet? Would you shut up? I'm 92 years of age. I've known this young man"—the 64-year-old Adams—"for over 40 years."
"The NAACAP is a 501(3)(c)! You should not be standing next to a political candidate!"
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At maybe the biggest MTA board meeting in recent memory, while officials are talking about how the congestion pricing pause will hurt the agency, the camera suddenly pans to boardmember and congestion pricing foe David Mack, who appears to be...sleeping?
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"I see a difference, definitely," said Tony, who has spent 18 years as a bus operator for the MTA. "There have been no delays the entire week, and when I look to my left and right down the avenues I can see all the way down – I've never seen it like that"
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In 1953, Columbia University wanted to take over 116th St.
NYC agreed—so long as Columbia gave access to the public.
But for the past 9 months after the NYPD's raids on pro-Palestine protesters, Columbia has shut the public out.
@erinmdurkin reports:
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Add the New York Times editorial board to the list of groups that once called for Cuomo's resignation, but now say people should vote for him
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If the NYPD wanted to be transparent, they would release the body camera footage of the officers who raided Hamilton Hall.
Instead, they release this heavily edited footage they added background music to
Let’s take an inside look at how your @NYPDnews officers safely & professionally restored order at @Columbia & @CityCollegeNY yesterday, after school officials requested our assistance in dispersing unlawful encampments on their campuses & persons barricaded inside their buildings.
It bears repeating- your police officers have a thankless job & it is important that we recognize their great work. Thank you to the Strategic Response Group (SRG), Community Response Team and all the police officers assigned to the mobile field force yesterday.
We will always protect the right to peaceful protest. Public safety is, & forever will be, our top priority.
@NYPDPC
@NYPD1stDep
@NYPDChiefOfDept
@NYPDChiefPatrol
@NYPDnews
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Eric Adams has made public safety the cornerstone of his mayoral campaign, yet his vehicle was cited 14 times in 2 years for speeding through school zones nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/06/…
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A thorough, sickening account of police brutality during the George Floyd protests in NYC.
This is what the NYPD and @NYCMayor called "restraint":
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If my attorney asked me to go on his AM radio show and answer questions about my phones being seized and my house being searched and my boss—the mayor—being indicted, I'd be like, "Oh wow no thank you"
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FWIW: Late last fall, I asked all five NYC DAs if "organized retail crime" was a problem they've been encountering.
Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, said no.
(Queens and SI didn't respond)
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Very happy to report that the digital staff at New York Public Radio, including @Gothamist reporters, are now a part of @sagaftra
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A group of NYC Democrats are sponsoring a landlord-backed bill in Albany that would be, in the words of one housing analyst, "a total disaster for rent-stabilized housing"
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This video of @katie_honan debunking @NYPDDCPI's bike chain claim has been viewed 1 million times
Here is @katie_honan confronting @NYPDDCPI with evidence that the chain he wielded to imply that “outside agitators” barricaded Hamilton Hall is a common bike lock that @Columbia itself sold to their students
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Asked about congestion pricing, @GovKathyHochul said she and the legislative leaders are currently "massaging" their alternate plan to raise $15 bn.
She also cited congestion pricing's effect on "pizza delivery" as one of the reasons why she stopped it from going into effect
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Under Hochul's new congestion pricing plan, it will still be more expensive to take the subway into Lower Manhattan on a Friday night than it will be to drive your own car over the Williamsburg Bridge.
Still, everyone agrees it's better than nothing:
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A Brooklyn cyclist tried to block an NYPD SUV from illegally parking on the sidewalk outside the 78 Precinct.
It did not go well.
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The NYPD's press office can tweet out a photo of a rag stuffed into a Topo Chico bottle but they can't be bothered to assemble any factual details on an SUV that flipped into Riverside Park on a busy spring Saturday
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Lotta cars parked on City Hall grounds today for the Council’s stated meeting. Took a photo of one with a Blue Lives Matter flag before a member of the security detail told me I couldn’t be there & that “people don’t like it” when you photograph their cars…
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Judge Engoron dismisses Governor Hochul’s motion to dismiss the congestion pricing lawsuits
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Hochul's attorney denies that the governor's decision effectively kills congestion pricing.
"I don't think this is a block, this is a pause."
Judge Engoron invokes John Marshall in response:
"Isn't the power to pause the power to kill?"
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“If people are feeling there’s a kind of militarism going on, that’s not acceptable.” — @NYCMayor, 12 hours ago
Riot cops just cleared Washington Square Park, arresting one person because he has a speaker playing Fuck The Police, and swinging batons at a teenager. Because the park closes at midnight
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>@NYCMayor calling for an "immediate investigation" of the Capitol Police's response to the Trump mob, criticizes leadership.
The investigation into his own police department for their treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters took 6 months and no leadership changes were made.
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If you're trying to bribe a reporter, @katie_honan is probably the funniest choice you could make.
But what if they were trying to frame her instead?
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NYPD and DSNY cops beat a grandfather trying to prevent them from seizing his daughter's food cart in Bushwick, witnesses and family members said.
They confiscated the cart anyway, and fined the family $3,000.
@erinmdurkin has the story
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"What [Cuomo] should recognize is that this pandemic is not a typical business cycle downturn...If you designed a form of economic punishment to single out working class and poor people and absolve all responsibility of the rich people, this would be it" gothamist.com/news/after-tal…
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Notably, @GovKathyHochul did not tell the Buffalo Bills that they needed to "live within their means" when they asked for $1 billion in public subsidies
"I'm not raising taxes in our budget this year," Hochul told reporters today. "Taxes are high enough in the state of New York, and we have to live within our means."
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Sitting in my apartment in Manhattan's congestion relief zone, waiting for my TV repair guy to drive here so we can both complain about how it's 1972
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This one goes out to everyone who has spent $15.99 on a sad airport sandwich
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Former staffers to >@andrewcuomo tick off a (long) list of reasons why he'd be a bad mayor of NYC.
"He doesn't take well to people criticizing him. He doesn't listen to people when they tell him 'no' or disagree with him. He doesn't manage well."
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Update as we take a quick break:
Hochul's attorneys admitted that she never put her order to "pause" congestion pricing on paper, that the state DOT found out by watching her on TV.
"I'm not aware of any explicit direction," the gov's attorney said.
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The driver was not given a summons for having an illegal plate.
When I asked the NYPD about why they did this, they responded with a basic narrative of what happened, only they referred to the driver as the "victim."
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God Smites Remote Learning After Eric Adams Denies NYC Kids a Snow Day
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Just got out of federal court, in which @NYCMayor's attorneys argued to dismiss the bribery counts against him.
Full story soon but, one detail that stood out:
THE FEDS STILL CAN'T GET INTO THE MAYOR'S PHONE!
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Eight months after @NYCMayor talked about a list of haters that keeps in his office, @NYCMayorsOffice now says there is no such list
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"When I was growing up, Little Italy was more or less a concrete jungle," Martin Scorsese writes in a letter to save Elizabeth St Garden.
FWIW when Scorsese was growing up, rents in Little Italy were ~$40/month—$535 in 2024 dollars
Today, the median rent in Manhattan is $4,600
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This ABC News SUV is literally idling its engine on a pedestrian plaza in the middle of a pro-congestion pricing rally.
“I’m charging my battery” the driver (a Nicholas Sparks fan?) says when I ask why he’s idling
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How will state lawmakers who oppose congestion pricing raise $1 BN for the MTA?
@DavidWeprin: "You'll find out in a week"
So, lawmakers are scrapping a plan that had years of public review/debate & replacing it with one hashed out behind closed doors
Assemblyman David Weprin says legislature is working on implementing a payroll tax before the end of the week and that there are “other proposals” New Yorkers will “find out about”.
Lawmakers are trying to end session for the year by tomorrow…
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The apotheosis of @GershKuntzman's years-long criminal mischief campaign:
Illegally parked car with Illinois license plate has a genuine NYPD placard in the dash and the traffic enforcement agent won't ticket it
This #criminalmischief video has IT ALL: A cop with a long record of reckless driving ... with an illegal out-of-state plate ... and an @NYPDTransport traffic enforcement agent who REFUSES to give him a ticket.
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The mountains of garbage bags waiting for collection that clog our curbs and sidewalks and serve as edible yurts for millions of rats are now as much of a NYC institution as the dollar slice and 24-hour subway service.
How did this happen?
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"The governor should be sympathetic to that argument, and he should use that to make the case that the wealthy have an obligation to share in the burden that has been unfairly imposed on minorities and people of color and the poor and the working class." gothamist.com/news/after-tal…
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In @UFT's lawsuit against congestion pricing, they claim that the cost of driving from Staten Island into Lower Manhattan "would increase to approximately $74 a day," including gas, parking, etc.
Which is a lot.
Except...this is what Staten Island drivers currently pay!
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An NYPD undercover accused Jawaun Fraser of stealing his wallet.
Fraser, 18, was sent to prison for 2 years.
Fraser and his attorneys later found out that his arresting offices had been sued dozens of times for false arrests.
@michaelhayes reports:
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The NYPD Commissioner and the Mayor's Office didn't bother showing up to a City Council hearing on police oversight yesterday.
So New Yorkers spent hours testifying about their own experiences with the NYPD.
Absolutely scathing account from @macfathom
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grateful this story was one of our most-read of 2022.
look at all these delightful blog posts!
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Hell Gate's Most-Read Stories of 2022 - Hell Gate
Read your favorite stories, again!
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None of the powerful leaders who helped block the Fordham Road busway in the Bronx live in the Bronx.
Most live in the suburbs.
Some have incomes that are 20x the average Bronx bus rider. One apparently has a personal driver.
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I just asked the @MTA this.
They declined to answer and referred all questions to @GovKathyHochul
The MTA Board cannot back away from Congestion Pricing now. It would violate the 2009 Public Authorities Reform Act that explicitly stated the MTA board is an independent body and should be making all decisions with the MTA's fiscal responsibility its primary concern.
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Vice displaced some of the best music venues in NYC so five years later they could then move into a WeWork building that takes an hour to get to from Midtown therealdeal.com/2021/08/26/v…
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