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  1. getting around
    Can We Design Our Way Out of the Subway-Surfing Crisis?New trains make it much harder to climb out and up, and that’s yet another reason to upgrade.
    By Nolan Hicks
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    Where Does $9 Congestion Pricing Get Us?Trying to make sense of Kathy Hochul’s mess.
    By Nolan Hicks
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    Chick-fil-A Tries to Tame the Delivery ChaosThe chicken megachain swears a second Brooklyn location and a bike corral for delivery workers will help.
    By Clio Chang
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    Trump’s Election Means It’s Now or Never for Congestion PricingThree billion dollars in federal matching funds will likely evaporate after January 20.
    By Nolan Hicks
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    Why Does NJ Transit Keep Canceling Trains?The reliably unreliable commuter system is 16 times more likely to face breakdowns than Metro-North is.
    By Nolan Hicks
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    It’ll Be a Whole New Fifth AvenueMore trees, wider sidewalks, and fewer cars.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    The Unbuilt Bridge That’s Strangling Penn StationWe need a second span out in Jersey, and nobody’s funded it yet.
    By Nolan Hicks
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    Joby the Electric Helicopter Wants to Take You to JFKAt some point in the future. If it can get FAA certification.
    By Clio Chang
  9. street fights
    E-Scooters Have Divided Suburban QueensSome residents and politicians call them “woke transport.” Others are happily riding them to the 7 train.
    By Clio Chang
  10. getting around
    Do Subway Elevators Really Need to Cost $100 Million Per Station?They’re taking a huge bite out of the MTA’s budget.
    By Nolan Hicks
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    Exteriors And Landmarks
    Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s Ferry Goes to Fashion WeekIts first gig is for Tommy Hilfiger.
    By Clio Chang
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    Some Chump Drilled a Hole Through the Top of the Queens-Midtown TunnelIt was closed all afternoon.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    Park Avenue’s Park Is Coming Back. Partially. Eventually.Restoring part of a gracious streetscape that we once ceded to cars.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    Amtrak Wants to Sell Us a Very Expensive Penn Station ExpansionThe railroad doesn’t want to improve the current station, which many argue would be cheaper (and faster).
    By Nolan Hicks
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    Scaling Back Congestion Pricing to Save ItHere’s a proposal that keeps the core of the plan intact but addresses Governor Hochul’s chief concerns.
    By Nolan Hicks
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    Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Chair and CEO Janno
    Exactly What We Lost When We Lost Congestion PricingWhat does that $15 billion slash — which will cost us an extra $3 billion on top of that — really mean for transit riders?
    By Nolan Hicks
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    Walking Along the Seine Is Now ‘Worse Than the Eras Tour’Olympics security rules have made it nearly impossible to get around without hitting a checkpoint or barricade.
    By John Surico
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    The MTA’s Oldest Computer Controls Kept Going During the Global Tech OutageMost of the Cuomo-era countdown clocks on the lettered subway lines failed; the old ones on the numbered lines did not.
    By Nolan Hicks
  19. neighborhood news
    Why the Third Avenue Bridge Got StuckAging infrastructure? Global warming? Not exactly.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  20. getting around
    Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor Power Supply Is Ancient and FailingThose hot-weather slowdowns and stoppages are largely the fault of one outdated piece of infrastructure.
    By Nolan Hicks
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    People Are Getting Stuck in Airplane Ceilings Now?A new genre of flight horror.
    By Clio Chang
  22. neighborhood news
    The Citi Bike Battery Crew Racing to Keep 15,000 Bikes OnlineMost docks don’t charge e-bikes (yet). These folks do.
    By John Surico
  23. getting around
    Congestion Pricing’s Promises Never Reached East HarlemAnd now the Second Avenue Subway won’t either.
    By Nolan Hicks
  24. rendering judgment
    A Well-Engineered BQE Plan, Inspiration Not IncludedThe city’s latest proposal rearranges the triple-cantilever section and declines the opportunity to do much more.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    What Made Kathy Hochul Flip?Inside the governor’s sudden U-turn on congestion pricing.
    By Nolan Hicks
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    “I Don’t Think There’s a Plan B”Confusion and fury (and Andy Byford) at MTA headquarters as the congestion-pricing news came down.
    By Nolan Hicks
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    At the Last Second, Hochul Ditches Congestion Pricing by the Side of the RoadWe were so close to getting there on time!
    By Christopher Bonanos
  28. rendering judgment
    Port Authority Plus a MicroparkThe newest renderings of the remade bus terminal are slightly less Apple Store, too.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    Tiny Electric Trucks Are Coming to a Bike Lane Near YouThey’re part of New York City’s plan to use pedal power to get all those packages to your door.
    By John Surico
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    The Hardest-Working Turnstile in the SubwayIt makes about 3 million spins a year.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    When the NYC Subway Was Just a Dirt TrenchRare photos from the early 1900s show the 120-year-old system’s pick-and-shovel beginnings.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    US-LIFESTYLE
    Every Question We Could Think of About Congestion PricingHow to run errands in the zone, find your toll rate, and figure out if you’re eligible for an exemption.
    By Clio Chang
  33. street fights
    The Sightseeing Bus Wars of New York CityThe legal drama, and alleged headbutting, playing out over tours to the Fearless Girl statue.
    By Jess McAllen
  34. cityscape
    Baruch Herzfeld is the founder and owner of the startup, Popwheel - a network of kiosks that charge e-bike batteries allowing delivery drivers to swap depleted batteries for fully charged ones.
    Can I Interest You in a Fresh Charge?Baruch Herzfeld wants to end the rash of e-bike-battery fires.
    By Mark Jacobson
  35. getting around
    The Subway Joy RidersRail fans who have moved from MTA obsession to breaking and entering.
    By Joshua Needelman
  36. noise
    I Tried to Fix My Block’s Honking ProblemInstead I went insane.
    By Clio Chang
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    People Are Still Quite Worked Up About Congestion Pricing“I’m a resident, you know, so this is very unfair and unfair to my mom.”
    By Clio Chang
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    NYC Ferry service boat Happy Hauler on the route from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Historic Brooklyn Bridge in background - New York, USA - 2021
    New York’s ‘Too Big to Sink’ Ferry Operator Is BankruptHornblower Group will be acquired by one of its investors.
    By James D. Walsh
  39. neighborhoods
    What Subway Shutdown? It is seemingly not affecting people’s appetites for Greenpoint apartments.
    By Adriane Quinlan
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    The Kids in Therapy for Subway AnxietyRiding solo — a rite of passage — has turned into a terrifying routine for some.
    By Beth Greenfield
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    We Now Have a Better-Than-Nothing Subway-Platform BarrierThe prototype, at 191st Street, looks simple, cheap, and modestly effective.
    By Clio Chang
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    Kayaking to School in Broad ChannelOn one block, a night of heavy rains and high tide sometimes means breaking out a boat to get around.
    By Clio Chang
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    Drama in the Teachers’ LoungeNew York City educators were shocked to hear their union was suing the MTA.
    By Bridget Read
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    The Flatbush Chick-fil-A CrunchLong waits, wrong-way drivers, and canceled orders at the chain’s only franchise in Brooklyn.
    By Clio Chang
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    It Was One of the Deadliest Years for New York City CyclistsBut pedestrian traffic deaths are reaching historic lows. What’s going on?
    By John Surico
  46. collectors
    First in Line at the MTA’s Memorabilia SaleShopping for train doors, wooden benches, and subway signage in a south Brooklyn lot.
    By Emma Alpern
  47. street view
    Making Headway on the Perfect New York StreetTwo years after our last close look, real signs of progress.
    By Justin Davidson
  48. getting around
    Unbending License Plates With Gersh KuntzmanCongestion pricing might bring the transit vigilante out of retirement.
    By Clio Chang
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    The Beginning of the End of the TurnstileA visit with the MTA’s new anti-fare evasion gates in Queens.
    By Clio Chang
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    Huge Hunks of Concrete Are Key to the Mayor’s Plan for Safer IntersectionsNot all approaches to “daylighting” are created equal.
    By Clio Chang
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