The MTA's website says "a police investigation at the 14th Street-Union Square" had caused Woodlawn-bound 4 and Pelham Bay Park-bound 5 trains" to run "local from the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station to the 42nd Street-Grand Central Station" (4/5 express service has since resumed, but" [...]
Uh-oh: 1010WINS reports, " Trains are moving again between New Jersey and New York City after a bridge was stuck in the open position. However, commuters should expect delays of up to an hour. NJ Transit spokesman Dan Stessel says Amtrak was unable to" [...]
It’s over with with Zelonis anyway, now we just have to get those tolls down. I won’t stop until they are and Thompson and Luh investigated for coercion and screwing the public.
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The fired Grand Island Bridge toll collector who sent threatening e-mails to an anti-toll activist on the Island pleaded [...]
A possible City Council vote on the controversial Bronx Kingsbridge Armory project was postponed Thursday, pushing the matter back at least a few more days. The Subcomittee on Zoning and Franchises has recessed until Monday, Dec. 7. They could vote then, or push back the matter until [...]
The Archdiocese of Bridgeport was ordered to make public its documents related to sexual abuse allegations. And they suggest that Cardinal Edward Egan, who stepped down from the NY Archdiocese earlier this year and was Bridgeport's Bishop between 1988 and [...]
The video says it all about tonight’s court proceedings. Thank you George Richert, he did a great job covering this tonight.
Told judge he was sorry, but not Thompson directly
George Richert
GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WIVB) – His threats against “free bridge” advocate Rus Thompson has already taken a toll, costing [...]
The General Contractors Association already pointed out that our bridges are the worst, earlier this year, and now AAA is rubbing it in with their own list. They say the Tappan Zee, Kosciuszko and Goethals bridges are the worst in the state; with subpar [...]
Nearly 50% of city bridges and crossings used by Amtrak trains have components rated in "poor" or worse conditions, according to inspection reports. The Post sheds harsh light on the "crumbling conditions" of spans over the Bronx River, thoroughfares like Dyckman Street, and bridges [...]
NYPL destroyed in The Day After Tomorrow In the battle between the West and East Coast cities, Los Angeles may just beat New York... at least on film. Remember when they blew up the Brooklyn Bridge? New Yorkers did not like [...]
At October's Walk21 Conference, I got the chance to tour the High Bridge, a viaduct connecting Manhattan and the Bronx which has been closed to the public for nearly 40 years.
Opening the High Bridge to pedestrians and cyclists has been a long-held goal for many New [...]
Tomorrow night the Hudson River Quadricentennial Celebration year closes out with the addition of New York City’s Lighted Boat Parade. The sparkling aquatic march will make its way down the Hudson, around the tip of Manhattan and up to the Brooklyn Bridge.
You can enjoy [...]
Photograph by missapril1956 on FlickrLast week’s episode features a look at the damage done to the local economies around the Champlain Bridge; a newsmaker interview with Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava; and a reporters roundtable with Kyle Hughes of NYSNYS and James Madore of Newsday.
[...]Last month the city planning commission approved the Kingsbridge Mall project, in which Related Companies will turn the old Bronx armory into a shopping center, without adding a "living wage" requ...
Continue reading "Council Big Puts Squeeze on Kingsbridge Armory Developer for "Living Wage"" > [...]
[UPDATE BELOW] Life is so unpredictable: One minute you're pulling out of a New Jersey gas station, the next minute you're diving off the George Washington Bridge to escape police after a high-speed chase. An unidentified man presumably fell to his death yesterday morning after [...]
Last night around nine a guy pulled his red Pontiac Grand Prix out of the Sunoco station in Englewood Cliffs and headed onto the George Washington Bridge. As he had failed to yield to traffic, a p...
Continue reading "Man Evades Cops, Jumps Off George Washington" [...]This week’s episode of “New York Now” features a newsmaker interview with Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava that discusses the race in the 23rd Congressional District and her re-entry into the Assembly’s Republican fold. Matt Ryan visits the business and individuals affected by the closure of the Crown Point Bridge; and journalists [...]
On eve of opening, 1964 Another day, another Bridgeversary! This Saturday the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge turns a youthful 45 years old.
The folks at Inside the Apple have a full history, noting that when it opened in 1964, it was [...]
Caleb Long Last month the City Planning Commission approved a controversial plan to turn the Kingsbridge Armory, a massive red-brick castle in the Bronx, into a mall that will include a large department store, shops and a movie theater. But critics [...]
Streetsblog has gotten word that, due to Port Authority construction and maintenance work, the north and south sidewalks of the George Washington Bridge will be closing intermittently until further notice.
According to a spokesperson, the authority plans to have the paths open on an alternating basis. Updates are [...]
A repetitive refrain filled City Hall’s council chambers on Tuesday morning. For a good hour at a zoning committee hearing on the contentious plan to redevelop the Bronx’s Kingsbridge Armory into a mall, council member after council member battered the Bloomberg administration and the [...]
ALBANY—With negotiations over how to bridge a $3.2 billion budget deficit stalemated, Carl Kruger—a primary contributor to the blockage—took to his bully pulpit.
"Part of being a New Yorker is paying taxes that are assessed upon you," Mr. Kruger, a Democratic state senator from south Brooklyn, fairly screeched at [...]
A mother of two was set on fire in the doorway of her Long Island City apartment yesterday morning by her estranged boyfriend and father of one of the children. Neighbors in the woman's Queensbridge Houses building say the woman had previously thrown the suspect, [...]
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