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Photo by orlibeth [https://instagram.com/p/yE9iXgkY2M/]Following the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s fifth fare hike in eight years [/mta-subway-fare-hike/], which left straphangers digging deeper into their pockets to board the city’s subways and buses beginning this past Sunday, March 22, riders in neighborhoods throughout our coverage area
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THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last week, we started speaking about reinventing the MTA [/commute-reinventing-mta-part-1-3/], a subject we should have gotten to in 2014. We started criticizing the MTA Reinvention Committee’s report [http://web.mta.info/mta/news/hearings/pdf/MTA_Reinvention_Report_141125.pdf]. One of those criticisms was
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Source: Hupu2 via Wikimedia Commons“…Legalize it, yeah yeah, that’s the best thing you can do” – Peter Tosh, “Legalize It,” 1975 BETWEEN THE LINES [/tag/between-the-lines/]:Start spreading the news — the times they are a-changing and New Yorkers will soon be a little less anxious about getting high with
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Source: Wikimedia CommonsReader Mike N. wrote to point out what he believes is a waste of NYPD resources: catching fare-beaters on the Voorhies Avenue side of the Sheepshead Bay subway station. > Do you know that since the token booth, which became a non-selling booth, was removed from the Shore
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An attendee requested support programs for special needs families. But that’s not what the meeting was for.Councilman Chaim Deutsch has touted his “participatory governing [/council-member-chaim-deutsch-hosts-participatory-governing-meeting-constituents/] ” approach as an alternative to participatory budgeting, but his first attempt – a governing workshop held last week – provided the best argument yet for
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Source: _chrisUK/FlickrBETWEEN THE LINES [/tag/between-the-lines/]: Since the snow and ice evaporated, most drivers probably assumed maneuvering along city streets would be trouble-free. But now they have to deal with another aggravating upshot generated by this year’s severe weather — a plague of potholes. They’re not nearly as
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Andrew Gounardes (Photo by Carol Dronsfield)The following is an opinion article submitted by Andrew Gounardes, a local attorney, vice president of the Bay Ridge Democrats and 2012 candidate for State Senate Last week, the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption released a report detailing an enraging, though not surprising,
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Riding the rails could be so very exhausting. “Why Not Use the El?” (1930) Reginald Marsh / Source: Ephemeral New YorkTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Allan Rosen is on vacation and asked me to fill in this week. My name is John Rozankowski, Ph.D. and I am a long-time community activist
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The Brooklyn Battery, er, we mean Hugh L. Carey Tunnel. Source: Matthew Keyes / FlickrTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last May we discussed subway and bus signage [/lets-talk-subway-and-bus-signage/] and DOT parking and street signage [/new-no-parking-signs-are-appearing-in-sheepshead-bay-and-more/]. In 2011, I wrote about confusing airport signage [/it’s-all-about-customer-service/]. Today I will discuss other problems with
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Photo by Allan RosenTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last week we discussed DOT street and parking signage [/new-no-parking-signs-are-appearing-in-sheepshead-bay-and-more/]. In January we mentioned the lack of clarity of the subway fare signs [/subway-fare-sign-is-unfriendly-to-tourists/] at the station agent booths. What about the rest of the MTA signage? In this area, the MTA scores
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Ugh. Just… ugh.The MTA sent out a press release earlier this morning, boasting of an “interactive subway map for easier viewing of fine-grain details.” Using the new map [http://www.mta.info/maps/submap.html], “you can zoom in to enlarge any part of the map and expose details
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A Bushmaster AR-15, one of the three firearms the Newtown killer used to ambush his defenseless victims. Source: barryt83 / FlickrBETWEEN THE LINES [/tag/between-the-lines/]: When I wrote my first column about gun violence in the wake of the fatal Columbine shootings years ago, I knew it wouldn’t be the
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All photos by and courtesy of Allan RosenTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Hey, let’s give Chicago top billing for a change. I’ve always wondered why Downtown Chicago retained its Els when New York City decided to get rid of them in Downtown and Midtown. I think I figured out
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Source: MTATHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: As the second anniversary of the largest service cutbacks in New York City History quietly passed on June 27th, the MTA hinted at its monthly board meeting for the first time that they were considering the restoration of some cuts. The New York Times has
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The NYC watershed and a state forest and park are located within the Marcellus Shale, where drillers want to hydrofrack for natural gas. (Source: NYC DEP) BETWEEN THE LINES: As drivers in Brooklyn feel the pinch of gas prices that have rapidly increased since the year began, there’s another
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Yelena MakhninThe following Op-Ed is written by Yelena Makhnin, executive director of the Brighton Beach Business Improvement District, representing businesses on and around Brighton Beach. Makhnin wrote this piece after the fatal shooting on the boardwalk on Thursday, June 9 [/update-five-people-shot-on-brighton-beach-boardwalk/]. She believes that the NYPD leadership should have been