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Write about the city. Vet of both tabs. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️‍🌈. Tips? DM me. On Mastadon: ; Bsky: @ndhapple ; Threads: ByNolanHicks

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Nolan Hicks
2 years
So, I see it's been a really dumb day on this website again.
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Two TV anchors have now brought up bringing metal detectors into the subways -- to which, I've have to ask, when was the last time they rode the subways?
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The story was broken by The New York Times and The New Yorker, but go on.
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Fox News
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. @kayleighmcenany on Harvey Weinstein silence: "This is the media elite covering for the Hollywood elite." #Hannity
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local audience v. national audience
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Shall now be referred to as West of Manhattan from now on
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6 years
Here’s the entire, unedited 13 minute exchange betweenester Holt and Pres. Donald Trump. What the president alleges in the tweet below didn’t happen. —
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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What’s going on at @CNN is happening, to different degrees, at other networks - with @NBCNews being the worst. The good news is that Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired(?) for incompetence, and much worse. When Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape on Russia, they were hurt badly!
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Tell me you live in New Jersey/Westchester and have a driver without telling me you in the suburbs and have a driver
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"Why not the subway" asks the anchor. Me: Have you ridden the subways? Ever? During the rush hour? How? What? Huh? Are we all still on earth?
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5 months
Won't get over how the Port Authority hired the same contractor used by the MTA for OMNY to build a new fare system that's incompatible with OMNY. Just top flight stuff.
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PATH Train
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Starting Tue, Dec. 5 @10am , PATH is piloting TAPP, a new contactless fare payment system that works with your mobile device/card. Pilot begins with three turnstiles at JSQ & two at the 30th St entrance of 33 St station. Stay tuned as we keep testing & roll out to more stations!
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Paris is a famously young city and undense city, home to little history, no ruins, no fire codes and a union-free workforce
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sam
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New York is spending $6.9B on a 1.5 mile subway extension that is already partially built. Meanwhile, Paris is spending ~$10B on a fully automated 47-mile subway line from scratch this is why transit advocates must fight to reduce construction costs: lower costs = more transit
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3 years
It's 1:36am in London, so we're about to find out which tabloids can still do a 3am replate
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6 years
As someone who spent a week in Houston as the storm pounded the city, I can tell you this was not a thing that happened.
@PatrickSvitek
Patrick Svitek
6 years
Trump speculates about why the Coast Guard made so many rescues in Texas during #Harvey : “People went out in their boats to watch the hurricane. That didn’t work out too well.”
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"Smith responded to a group dinner invitation whose host said his home would be “judenfrei,” a German word used by the Nazis ... to describe territory that had been “cleansed” of Jews" Smith replied: “They don’t call it Freitag for nothing.”
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Ben with a good catch, the judge selected by Cuomo to review his behavior is/was partners with his ex-Sec.-still-top-aide Steve Cohen
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Second Ave. Sagas
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@JonCampbellGAN I'm sure what this 2013 article reveals is simply a coincidence.
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"We did not cut funding," says Mayor Eric Adams about his budget, which did indeed cut funding.
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1 year
I'm just a simple country lawyer, but the plan to appeal to the suburbs who have twice rejected making Hunter Biden an issue is to go after the other son — the one who was a war vet and died of cancer?
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White House slams GOP lawmaker’s ‘despicable’ suggestion Beau Biden should have been indicted, via @amybwang :
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Guys: I cannot emphasize this enough. Subscribe/buy your local paper in this crisis. Your reporters/runners/rewrites/city editors/copy editors/page designers/graphics/photo/ea's are doing their damndest to bring you the best information they can. Stay informed.
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"City of New York is severing all contracts with the Trump Organization," says de Blasio, citing a clause on 'criminal activity.' Says Trump siccing a mob on Capitol Hill qualifies.
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2 years
Kathy Hochul takes 75% of the early and absent vote in NYC. It's gonna be a tough hill for Zeldin to climb,
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4 years
Gotta have a car. To get a test. In Brooklyn. Where 72% of the population rides a train or a bus, walks or bikes to work. This seems like sound public policy.
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Jeff Coltin
4 years
Guy just tried to walk up and was turned away. “All the ones we’re working at, you e got to have a car,” Trooper said.
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11 months
This is not identical: But when NYC faced the threat of record heat just before the pandemic struck, BdB ordered power conservation, extended beach hours and more before it hit. And the city regularly closes down and preps before snow. We regularly react and plan for weather.
@TweetBenMax
Ben Max
11 months
Mayor Adams tells press not to create a controversy where there isn't about admin's communications re air quality; says "there is no planning" & "no playbook" for something like this, "there were no late notifications" - he & admin reps seem v focused on shaping that narrative
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+5m nets the same electoral college outcome as -2m
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👀👀👀👀👀 “Mr. Trump tried creative ways to persuade the Democrats that they should support his wall. At one point, he said Ms. Pelosi should back it because she was “a good Catholic” and Vatican City is surrounded by a wall”
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It's impossible to read this and not become furious. A top-to-bottom botch job --
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6 years
Your annual reminder the only reason we have to go through the whole song-and-dance of filing tax returns is because TurboTax and HR Block spent millions on lobbying to block a bill that would automate the process for most taxpayers --
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4 years
Fun fact: The New York City subway moves ~2.5 times as many people in a given day as the entire US airline industry --
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'AT THE END OF HIS GROPE' --
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4 years
Not even letting a Democratic administration even attempt to pick its own cabinet secretaries is a pretty massive escalation of things -- even beyond judges.
@JimVandeHei
Jim VandeHei
4 years
🚨 🚨 scoop: McConnell, if he keeps the Senate majority, plans to prevent Joe Biden from stacking his Cabinet with liberals and force him to go with centrist options, like Lael Brainard 4 Treasury, Tony Blinken for State, sources tell ⁦ @mikeallen
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4 years
Biden's popular vote lead is going to grow substantially in the next several days as NY *finally* begins to tally its absentee ballots. 1.5m uncounted ballots returned as of Friday -- 900k-plus from registered Dems.
@DomenicoNPR
Domenico Montanaro
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*POPULAR VOTE UPDATE* + change since last night Total vote: 148,502,630 (+342,739) BIDEN: 75,215,986 (50.6%) (+205,527) TRUMP: 70,812,803 (47.7) (+126,574) MARGIN: 4,403,183 (+78,953) What's left... NY 79% WA 85% CA 86% reporting (up from 66%) TX 98% (up from 85%)
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1 year
Blistering new assessment of how the MTA builds transit projects reveals agency spent nearly twice as much on consultants on the Second Avenue Subway as it did boring the actual tunnel from 63rd to 96th —
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Two mayors, two govs, two MTA chairs and god knows how many budgets — proud of the stories on billion dollar stations, unequal COVID and mpox vaccine access, kids left in lead-tainted apartments, and unsafe shelters. It’s been a good run. Got laid off. Will be at the bar.
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1 year
Meet the MTA’s new bendy R211.
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7 years
If three +20 swings can't convince the Texas Dems to produce real candidates for Sessions/Culberson/Farenthold seats, turn out the lights.
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3 years
Come to Manhattan they said! It’s a grid, they said!
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4 years
Make 👏 It 👏 Permanent 👏
@laurenpeikoff
Lauren Peikoff✡️
4 years
New York is definitely dead.
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If you’re keeping track at home, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has, amid a new awful COVID outbreak: - Banned cities from imposing mask mandates - Or vaccine mandates - Or imposing capacity restrictions if hospitals become overwhelmed - And now won’t even send nurses.
@marinastarleaf
Marina Starleaf Riker
3 years
Some late Friday breaking news from @JFreports & me: Unlike in past #covid19 surges, the state isn’t planning to send nurses to help hospitals keep up w/ rising demand. It’s now telling cities & counties to use their own stimulus $ to hire reinforcements:
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Nolan Hicks
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“Cohen responded to The Journal’s request for comment with a two-word emailed statement: “Fake News.’” Five months later, he pleaded guilty:
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4 years
@jswatz @mannyNYT @RobertMackey The anti-vaxxers making an appearance was a nice additional touch of insanity --
@mannyNYT
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4 years
Chant of “Let us work!”
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"All I want is a journalist keyboard with an emdash"
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1 year
The death of shame and embarrassment is maybe the clearest thruline in the last decade of American politics.
@nytimes
The New York Times
1 year
George Santos remains a pariah in Congress after his biography unraveled. But rather than shrinking from attention, he's stepping more toward the spotlight, as he seems to be testing whether his notoriety will translate into celebrity, if not acceptance.
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4 years
Three years ago this week, the greatest ever photograph in the history of New Jersey was taken --
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4 years
There aren't words for how infuriating it is that four months into this hell we still don't have speedy test results.
@katehinds
Kate Hinds
4 years
CityMD signs says it takes a minimum of 7 days to get #COVID19 test results
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Newt Gingrich is apparently aiming to head the U.S. Department of Magic.
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3 years
Seems like the sort of thing he should have told voters as he ran in a Democratic Party primary
@Fritschner
Aaron Fritschner
3 years
Andrew Yang tells @daveweigel that his plan if he had won New York City's Democratic mayoral primary was to immediately leave the Democratic Party
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Nolan Hicks
11 months
Someone superimpose the Lexington Avenue subway, which carries five times the number of people daily, on top of this.
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Emily Watson
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When asked about Cuomo's attacks on the Mayor today, City Hall press secretary Bill Neidhardt responds: "Serial sexual assaulter says what?"
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Jaw meet floor.
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4 years
When the coda is the lede --
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Crazy idea: Amtrak should let you switch onto a same-day train that’s earlier or later in the same class of service if there’s space available for free. A coach ticket should equal a coach ticket.
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It is not, dear reader, HIPAA --
@GehlkenNFL
Michael Gehlken
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Asked if he is vaccinated, Cowboys QB Dak Prescott: “I don’t necessarily think that’s exactly important. I think that’s HIPAA.”
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Ah yes, it was New Yorkers who didn't shut down the beaches.
@Bogs4NY
Steven Bognar
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BREAKING: Florida Gov Ron DeSantis says anyone flying from NY/NJ will be mandated to a 14 day quarantine upon arrival #nbc4ny
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1 year
Square this circle: Long Islanders tell Newsday pollster there's too much traffic, not enough transit, not enough housing and too much development. --
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3 years
I cannot say this loudly enough -- if you think 'the media' isn't covering Andrew Cuomo aggressively, please turn off cable news and subscribe to a newspaper.
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@C_Sommerfeldt I'm not sure I'm doing the math right, but I believe Topeka's homicide rate is ~double what NYC's is.
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If Biden is a “legislative terrorist” for not agreeing to “discuss meaningful action”, what does that make the guys holding the government’s full faith and credit hostage to score political concessions they can’t win at the ballot box?
@DavidMDrucker
David M. Drucker
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“If President @JoeBiden decides he wants to be a legislative terrorist ... who refuses to discuss meaningful action on a $32 trillion debt, then he has the power to hurt America. There’s no question about that.” @RepDustyJohnson @thedispatch
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7 months
A fun fact: Even on a dry day, the MTA is pumping 13 million gallons of water out of the subway system.
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City Hall's response so far (in sum/substance): - We were on top of it, we just didn't tell you - If you didn't know, it's your fault - Lincoln Restler is a meanie - Drones
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Just a reminder that New York City has the best sandwiches and it’s not close.
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Nolan Hicks
6 years
"Not from me" is not "off the record" and it never has been.
@Azi
Azi™️
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—> Cuomo spox: “to disclose an off the record exchange that had been agreed to by the New York Post is a violation of journalistic ethics”
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Nolan Hicks
3 years
This is quite the paragraph that nicely illustrates the absurdity of the last month —
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Nolan Hicks
4 years
Just a reminder that the MTA carried more than twice as many people as the entire airline industry — and has received a pittance of the aid:
@danrivoli
Dan Rivoli
4 years
Slashing service: - MTA would have to cut up to 40% - as much as 8-minute gap between trains - as much as 15-minute gap between buses - up to 7,200 positions cut
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Nolan Hicks
7 months
Have I been imagining the budget cut stories I've been writing for the last year?
@katie_honan
katie honan
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Custom Eric Adams glasses before Off-Topic Tuesday. They are new.
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EXCLU: The MTA shelved a through-running/signals program that could have boosted Penn Station’s capacity by 20-45%. Officials say they shelved it because it missed capacity targets. The $13B terminal they’ve proposed instead misses those targets, too.
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4 years
So, coronavirus killed more people in 8 hours in New York City than we had murders in two months.
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It has literally been five days since we've seen the sun and if I wanted this, I'd live in Seattle.
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1 year
The problem here is 'give me literally everything I ask for' is not a serious bargaining position; but McCarthy's whip operation is questionable and he can't afford to lose a single vote so literally every demand stays in.
@JStein_WaPo
Jeff Stein
1 year
I really do not know how this ends. It is very hard for me to see how the White House accepts the kinds of cuts to programs - like education, rental aid, nutrition for poor families - that the GOP seems to have made their redline. But they seem very, very determined to get a deal
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Nolan Hicks
4 years
Why does the Postal Service matter? Because UPS wants $12 to send one average-sized book from a warehouse in Brooklyn to an apartment in Brooklyn and that is nuts.
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Nolan Hicks
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Mayor Adams is rolling out a giant set of tweaks to the zoning code. It's not ditching the code, but it's a substantial set of changes: - Allows for widespread construction of ADU in more suburban portions of the city - Largely ditches parking minimums - More studios/1bd
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De Blasio has fiercely resisted closing playgrounds, and Cuomo just made the decision for him. It's a replay of the schools shutdown all over again. Just remarkable. --
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POST INVESTIGATION: The MTA’s has a backwards system for designing mega-projects that puts consultants in driver’s seat, leads to excessive engineering and design choices. The Post found $2.3b in excess in three projects the MTA is scoping —
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Nolan Hicks
2 years
Keep this in mind as we talk about congestion pricing: Cars accounted for *just* 250k of the 2 million trips in and out of Manhattan's Central Business District pre-pandemic. Subways/railroads/buses? 1.65m
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Nolan Hicks
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Using city resources to personally denigrate a columnist at a major daily is whew
@NYPDDaughtry
NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry
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Hey @harrysiegel everyone has an opinion. It’s a shame the Daily News chose to share yours — wild inaccuracies and all. It’s true we don’t track “defecation,” but we do track murder — and you managed to get that wrong. Rest assured, we will continue to enforce the law and make…
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CUT/COPY: The night before controversial Harlem Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan published a Twitter thread that blamed Ukraine and the West for Vladimir Putin’s invasion — another Twitter user posted a virtually identical thread:
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Nolan Hicks
4 years
The O.C.(vid)
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Liz Kreutz
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Today in Newport Beach. Wow. Via @GettyImagesNews
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Thus, defeating the purpose.
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James Hamblin
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Outdoor dining has gradually escalated into what might reasonably be called a buildings.
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It's also: - 10x as much as Paris spends per mile, - 5x as much as LA spends per mile, - AND, 2x as much as the MTA spent per mile to build the *same* subway through the Upper East Side, perhaps the city's wealthiest neighborhood.
@andrewsiff4NY
Andrew Siff
2 years
Couldnt tweet from underground but NEW Deets on @MTA Second Avenue Subway Phase 2. opening date is “6 to 8 years” from groundbreaking which is slated for next year. So 2028-2030 range. Cost is $6.3B. Which the chairman calls “a bargain” based on passenger numbers. #NBC4NY
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9:01pm: Cuomo’s office releases empty public schedule 10:01pm: City Hall schedules presser for 9:30am 10:30pm: Cuomo’s office releases updated schedule with an event set for 9am — ie, on top of Blas’s presser. We’re really gonna do this in the middle of a pandemic, aren’t we.
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Nolan Hicks
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The tell is the fit of the suit
@santiagomayer_
Santiago Mayer
2 years
One of these two is new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the other is U.S. Senator Chris Coons.
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Not the point, but it's time to have a conversation about insisting on sticking with middle seats if a large number of riders would rather stand up.
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Allison Elosua
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@LIRR this is definitely not better! 4:10 and half the people are standing!!!
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Nolan Hicks
4 years
Just horrific detail piled upon horrific detail. We'll need a 9/11-style commission when this is all said and done.
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Nolan Hicks
3 years
A million more people ride the NYC subway on any given day than fly across the entire country.
@TSA_Northeast
Lisa Farbstein, TSA Spokesperson
3 years
JUST IN: @TSA officers screened 2,169,974 people at airport security checkpoints yesterday, Friday, Oct. 8. The last time checkpoint volume was this high was Aug. 1, when 2,238,462 people were screened. (Aug. 8 came close at 2,168,264) It's a fall holiday weekend folks.
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Nolan Hicks
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It would really behoove the Board of Elections to provide some kind of update about what's going on. This is a democracy, not the College of Cardinals.
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"We're going to get new vendors to take over," says Blas. (Rough transcript here): "These are sites we want to continue serving the public, but not with a criminal"
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Nolan Hicks
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"And reminder, NY is constantly building tons of new housing of all types. Rents are not going down." We're not. New York hasn't averaged more than 20k housing completions annually in about 40 years. In the 2010s: We added 700k+ jobs, we built ~200k homes.
@JabariBrisport
Jabari Brisport
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@erik_engquist I support building more affordable housing. And reminder, NY is constantly building tons of new housing of all types. Rents are not going down. Good Cause Eviction is the best solution to combat rapidly increasing rental prices.
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Basically, that’s the cutoff for federal food stamp eligibility in NY. Would effectively end the program as middle class boost.
@axios
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NEW: Sen. Manchin has told the White House the child tax credit must include a firm work requirement and family income cap in the $60k range, Axios has learned. These demands would dramatically weaken one of Biden's signature programs.
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It's crazy, as a kid growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area -- Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Jerry Brown, Willie Brown were all kind of like the Sierras. Immovable, defacto features of life and had been for at least a generation or two prior. And it's all kind of over.
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POST INVESTIGATES: The MTA is repeating design decisions that pushed the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway into the stratosphere with the East Harlem extension --
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SCOOP: One of Mayor Eric Adams' closest aides — Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks — founded one of the firms providing unarmed guards to the MTA as part of its crackdown on fare-beating. And he still lists himself as an employee on his resume:
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Nolan Hicks
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This, from a source, is video of the from Canal St at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, where a phalanx of cops is in a standoff with hundreds of protesters, blocking them from entering the city.
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"I live in the regular world," says Bill de Blasio about his 12 mile, hour-long trips to a YMCA in another borough to ride a stationary bike while watching cable news.
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Nolan Hicks
5 years
Nothing says contrition quite like threatening to fire employees who blew the whistle on your shady dealings
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Marc Lacey
5 years
Mr. Zuckerberg made it clear that Facebook would not hesitate to fire employees who spoke to The New York Times or other publications.
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Nolan Hicks
11 months
The idea that politicians can't be indicted is so peculiar if you've ever written about politics in New York, Texas, Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Louisiana, Oregon, California, etc. Basically anywhere.
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Nolan Hicks
11 months
The forest fire smoke is now hanging in the ceiling of the Wall St subway station. Just absolutely positively awful.
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Nolan Hicks
1 year
Since we're doing some NYC vs. LI housing on the Twitter today: - NYC built 10x as much housing over the last decade than LI did; - LI's averaging one new home/apt *per* square mile *per* year; - Share of LI renters who are rent-burdened is actually higher than in NYC
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Nolan Hicks
4 years
there was once a literal lollipop guild
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