Category: Politics
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Cuomo’s excuses on the Hudson river tunnels are disgusting.
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NYC DOT / 311 Does not want to hear road repaving complaints (Updated)
NYC’s 311 website is not accepting complaints for streets that need repaving.
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More People, No significant new city services: LIC Edition
As anyone who has been paying attention (or read our last article) knows, the neighborhoods of Greenpoint, Williamsburg, LIC (and soon Astoria) have been seeing massive increases in population without significant associated increases in city services (first responders, transit, schools, hospitals, etc).
We already know this is a problem. This article is will focus on LIC and clarify the scope of this problem.
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Reopen Closed LIC & Williamsburg Fire Houses
The abandoned FDNY Engine 212 firehouse in 2006.Over the last 10 years, Long Island City (LIC), Williamsburg and Greenpoint transformed from neglected low-population industrial neighborhoods to tightly packed thriving residential areas. Dozens of factories and warehouses have been replaced with high rise apartment buildings. Basic NYC government services have not kept pace with the growing population, and one of the most overlooked and life threatening of those services is the NYC fire department.
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Forget the air train or a subway extension – build a Busway from Manhattan to LaGuardia
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10 years ago today we took on the MTA & NYPD and won.
In the late spring of 2004, the NYC MTA considered banning all photography in and around the subway system. They did so at the request of the NYPD, who grew afraid that terrorists were documenting the subway system to plan future terror attacks.We found this notion to be paranoid and dangerous – an infringement upon our constitutional rights. Criminalizing photography? No way. We immediately decided to hold a protest.
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Astoria Mountain Park: An idea whose time has come.
On the northeast border of Astoria, there is a forest covered urban mountain whose origins are shrouded in mystery. This would make a great location for a very unique new park. Unfortunately though, this forest and ‘mountain’ may be bulldozed soon.
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Who wants to play Bloomberg-opoly?
A few years ago a goon I know created this – I thought it’d be nice to updated it a little and bring back for Bloomberg’s finally few hours in office.
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The Triboro RX: An RX for disaster.
Do you want to see the city spend 10s of millions of dollars condemning hundreds family homes? Would you like to see severe service disruptions to the N and Q lines in Queens, including a potential full closure (to last months, or years) of the entire route between Queensboro Plaza and Ditmars blvd? Do you want to pay more in taxes to have your household trash trucked out of NYC? Or perhaps even see the reopening of the Staten Island landfill? Do you want to pay more for everything from Chinese food to plywood at Home Depot, and even higher rents in new buildings?
If the ‘Triboro RX’ subway line were to be built, all of the above would happen. This might sound like hyperbole, but when you take a serious look at the facts I’m going to lay out, you’ll see what I mean.
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The tiny volunteer tourist railroad that could is told it cant by corrupt, criminal politicians
In Kingston, NY, the little all volunteer tourist railroad that could was told no – you can’t – and is now being thrown out of business by misguided government officials.
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