Brooklyn Bridge Trolley 1898

How many are vegans?
How many are ambidextrous?
How many of them are allergic to peanuts?

The identity politics crowd is enamored with such details while the focus should be on whether they broke the law or not.

Democratic socialist since 1987 Brad Lander is an expert in conflict of interest. His wife’s clients receive over $500M per year in city contracts that he is supposed to provide oversight for.

Let’s check in on subway status:

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The Town of Hempstead on Long Island, the largest town in this great nation with a population exceeding 750K, is suing the unelected MTA and FHA over its outlandish desire to implement a tyrannical “congestion” tax to be levied for the mere privileging of…

Central Park 2024

He isn’t wrong…

No consequences for criminality in NYC.

Haha.

Broadway and 47th 1920

It's a good time to remember that:

*CUNY is widely-regarded as one of the most antisemitic university systems in the country

*Dozens of its union delegates (PSC) signed a missive referring to the terrorist attacks of 10/7 as a 'military operation by Hamas'

*The entire…

Is the MTA ready for congestion taxation?

Introducing a tax to drive dependency on this governmental system as a 'substitute' is absolute insanity.

Excellent news.

Keep the lawsuits coming. There are 12 other town subdivisions on Long Island and 95 different incorporated villages.

This unjust taxation plan should never see the light of day.

This 22-page PDF released by the NYC Department of Transportation Alternatives gleefully showcases how wildly unprepared the government is as a whole for congestion taxation.

The vast majority of these plans are in the early planning stages and are for items that the MTA's own…

This is the absolute worst congestion at 5:15 that I have seen lately on this road that traverses Manhattan connecting New Jersey to all points east and vice versa. It’s really not bad for a metro area of 20M.

The MTA seeks to introduce a 24 hour a day tax for this temporal…

600 MTA buses already have these cameras through a previous pilot and this contract will add another 1400 buses.

$141M for 1400 buses.

The per bus cost is >$100K.

Does this seem reasonable?

Storming of the Bastille 2024 version in America under President Joe Biden

This latest likely mid-day murder in the Financial District, once home to Wall Street, happened in the confines of the NYPD's 1st precinct. This vicinity has seen a deep concentration of prison release shelters and migrant accommodations over the last few years, resulting in a…