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NY Gov Hochul announces agreement with state legislature to fully fund MTA’s $68b capital plan, using payroll tax adjustment, savings from Feds taking over Penn Station project, & MTA savings. Recommits state to the Interborough Express light rail project.

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The GOAT

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Biking in Manhattan really has become categorically better.

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I tend to think that fare-evasion in New York is quite different subway vs bus. Specifically: - Subway fare evasion can (and will) be dramatically reduced with modern fare gates (sliding-door style), whereas: - Bus fare evasion needs a huge social-norming campaign.

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Nice intersection day-lighting in Williamsburg

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I reject this framing - Midtown is a nice place to live! I'm just a few blocks from this Pfizer HQ -> Residential Conversion project, and it's not a hard sell to get people to live here.

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Washington Square Park

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Suburbs are the most pressing threat to open space and wilderness.

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East Village was BUMPING last night

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Yesssss www.latimes.com/california/s...

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I tend to commute in around rush hour, so usually Manhattan streets are absolutely snarled with traffic w/ huge grid lock in key intersections and even though I'm mostly in a bike lane, tons of cars everywhere you turn. This time, I'd say, like half as many cars? No gridlock. Way smoother/safer.

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Makes you think!

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Go by Ferry

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I live in the congestion-pricing zone and it's been an across-the-board success: - safer streets - vibrant street life - more consistent drive-times - funded transit

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I think the scale of Lime's operations in cities like London and Paris, and how many more trips happen via bike because of it, has gone vastly underappreciated in the urban planning world.

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Baby boomers grew up into postwar housing abundance, bought cheap homes including fixer-uppers that had filtered downmarket thanks to robust new construction, then decided that we had enough housing. Now, thanks to 40 years of under-building, those old fixer-uppers cost $800k. The solution? Build!

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Brooklyn Commons

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14th St Bus Lane getting a nice spring cleaning

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West 78th St

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W. Broadway

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Today I learned there's a small, French archipelago just south of Newfoundland

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One thing I try to do is email other academics when I read one of their papers or use one of their Python/mapping packages and really enjoy them. Academia is a small world and I love that I can just write these people directly.

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42nd St

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So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Been fun watching this new project take shape. Gorgeous landscaping: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...

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East 44th St

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First Ave

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The Flatiron, soon to be apartments (2026)

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Morning Light, Fifth Avenue

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Self-inflicted wound from the City Council that diminishes our streets and our small businesses.

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Sixth Ave

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Spring on the Hudson River Greenway

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Make Rapha a Biz School case study because their mark-ups are insane and yet every cyclist bro in New York is wearing it. I missed the memo.

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Rush hour, Manhattan Bridge

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The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

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I think New York should implement a plan to transition on-street food carts to grid connections 🔌 (other cities do this!) because the air and noise pollution from many of these is brutal.

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New York Spring is 🤌🏻

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These details matter - nice work from @nyc-dot.bsky.social

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The GOAT

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Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Goes hard.

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The most glorious Spring day in Central Park

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