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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
  2. getting around
    Where Does $9 Congestion Pricing Get Us?Trying to make sense of Kathy Hochul’s mess.
    By Nolan Hicks
  3. getting around
    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
  4. getting around
    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
  5. getting around
    It’ll Be a Whole New Fifth AvenueMore trees, wider sidewalks, and fewer cars.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  6. getting around
    The Unbuilt Bridge That’s Strangling Penn StationWe need a second span out in Jersey, and nobody’s funded it yet.
    By Nolan Hicks
  7. getting around
    Joby the Electric Helicopter Wants to Take You to JFKAt some point in the future. If it can get FAA certification.
    By Clio Chang
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. getting around
    Park Avenue’s Park Is Coming Back. Partially. Eventually.Restoring part of a gracious streetscape that we once ceded to cars.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  11. getting around
    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
  12. getting around
    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
  13. getting around
    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
  14. neighborhood news
    Why the Third Avenue Bridge Got StuckAging infrastructure? Global warming? Not exactly.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  15. 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
  16. getting around
    Congestion Pricing’s Promises Never Reached East HarlemAnd now the Second Avenue Subway won’t either.
    By Nolan Hicks
  17. getting around
    What Made Kathy Hochul Flip?Inside the governor’s sudden U-turn on congestion pricing.
    By Nolan Hicks
  18. getting around
    “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
  19. street view
    We Need Congestion Pricing, and Kathy Hochul Blew ItShe threw us under the bus (and it’s stuck in traffic).
    By Justin Davidson
  20. getting around
    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
  21. rendering judgment
    Port Authority Plus a MicroparkThe newest renderings of the remade bus terminal are slightly less Apple Store, too.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  22. getting around
    The Hardest-Working Turnstile in the SubwayIt makes about 3 million spins a year.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  23. 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
  24. getting around
    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
  25. neighborhoods
    What Subway Shutdown? It is seemingly not affecting people’s appetites for Greenpoint apartments.
    By Adriane Quinlan
  26. street view
    Making Headway on the Perfect New York StreetTwo years after our last close look, real signs of progress.
    By Justin Davidson
  27. getting around
    Huge Hunks of Concrete Are Key to the Mayor’s Plan for Safer IntersectionsNot all approaches to “daylighting” are created equal.
    By Clio Chang
  28. getting around
    A Postcard From Driverless San FranciscoUnexplained stops. Incensed firefighters. Cars named Oregano. The robotaxis are officially here.
    By Theodore Gioia
  29. getting around
    Someone Broke Moynihan Train Hall’s Skylights — From the OutsideThe indoor scaffolding is just a precaution while the glass is replaced.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  30. street view
    Need Housing? Need a Rail Line? Stack Them Up.Studio V’s proposal for a Borough Park rail cut.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. street view
    Janette Sadik-Khan on Getting Congestion Pricing Right‘We don’t look ready.”
    By Justin Davidson
  32. the city
    The Candy SellersThe lives and livelihoods of some of the city’s newest migrant children.
    By Jordan Salama
  33. getting around
    New Subway and Rail Tunnels Are Coming! Eventually.Maybe in 2035. Or later.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  34. street view
    Two Penn Station Plans That Finally Look PromisingCould they converge to make the nation’s worst rail hub much better?
    By Justin Davidson
  35. the group portrait
    Pilgrimage to the Meadowlands (Taylor’s Version)How to get an army of Swifties to the MetLife Stadium — and its parking lot.
    By Zach Schiffman and Sara Messinger
  36. street view
    Congestion Pricing’s Pitfalls and How to Avoid ThemLessons from London’s 20 years of experience.
    By Justin Davidson
  37. getting around
    Did Jeff Bezos Put His Girlfriend on the Bow of His Superyacht?The massive schooner cost $500 million to build. Hidden declarations of love are priceless.
    By Katie McDonough
  38. getting around
    A Brief History of Elon Musk’s Master PlansPart 1 was a practical post-gasoline vision, Part Deux was more like rambly billionaire futurism, and Part 3 arrives next week.
    By Alissa Walker
  39. ohio train derailment
    What Is Going On in East Palestine, Ohio?Parsing the most reliable information circulating about the catastrophic train derailment.
    By Alissa Walker
  40. getting around
    Why It Costs So Much to Build Our SubwaysAn NYU study finds that most of the overspending isn’t where you think it is.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  41. street view
    Walkable City’s Jeff Speck Knows There Are Worse Things Than Crawling TrafficTen years on, he reflects on pipe dreams turned real (like California’s ADU boom) and not (like truly safe streets).
    By Justin Davidson
  42. getting around
    Eric Garcetti’s Broken SidewalksIf you want to know what kind of mayor he’s been for Los Angeles, just look down.
    By Alissa Walker
  43. getting around
    GM Is Fixing Busted Teslas NowAbout 11,000 of them so far, according to GM’s president.
    By Alissa Walker
  44. design history
    We’ll Miss You, MetroCard MachineAfter more than two decades, the city is replacing the squat stainless-steel machines to make way for OMNY.
    By Karrie Jacobs
  45. getting around
    Talking to the Last Man Standing at the Congestion-Pricing HearingAn all-nighter with the MTA (and The Real Housewives of Dubai).
    By Katie McDonough
  46. getting around
    6 Hours and 42 Minutes of Insults and Minor MeltdownsA “money grab,” an “embarrassment,” and other complaints from the MTA’s first congestion-pricing hearing.
    By Wilfred Chan
  47. streets
    Eastern Parkway Was Never Meant to Be a HighwayThe case for making the street more like the pleasure road Frederick Law Olmsted intended.
    By Diana Budds
  48. special delivery
    Who Isn’t Suing the USPS Over Its Gas-Guzzler Trucks?Sixteen states, plus three big metro regions, are trying to get the post office to electrify faster.
    By Alissa Walker
  49. getting around
    Who’s Afraid of the Subway?Riding every line in the days after the Sunset Park shooting.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  50. getting around
    I Was a Teenage Subway TerrorNow I’m the elder on the subway, praying that the band of teens next to me on the platform doesn’t get in the same car.
    By Collier Meyerson
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