Happy New Year! Mayor Mamdani rang it in by officially introducing his new transportation commissioner, Mike Flynn, who’s got a mandate to fulfill an ambitious public transit agenda www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...

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Next faregate model just opened at Atlantic Ave-Barclay. This one is by Cubic, the company that built OMNY www.instagram.com/reel/DSpmEai...

The State of the Chains report by @nycfuture.bsky.social is always interesting reading. Big chains are shrinking citywide, led by cuts at Starbucks. Dunkin' still undefeated in the 5 boros. Big box pharmacies in a tailspin. And food is driving a lot of the growth nycfuture.org/research/sta...

🚨✌🏽 goodbye (and good riddance?) to the metrocard www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/n...

The MetroCard will take its last ride in this heavily guarded room in Queens. Take a tour with me, the transit nerd in the chocolate factory www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...

This boy was attending school in Astoria just weeks ago.

Today the the MTA debuted a new style of fare gates it expects to install in 150 stations over the next five years. A few minutes before the demo, a woman got her neck caught in the door, and a man brazenly pushed the doors open to prove it can be gamed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Gov Hochul will veto a bill to require both a conductor and a driver on every subway train, according to two sources familiar with the decision. Story to follow. Details on the bill here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

Safest year on the subway since 2009, when Bloomberg was mayor. free link www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/n...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

It’s one thing to threaten to leave. It’s another to follow through.

REMINDER: Starting at 6 a.m. this Monday, December 8, F and M trains will permanently swap routes between Manhattan and Queens on weekdays, affecting eight stations. There will be no change from current service late evenings, nights, and weekends.

This little girl murdered her uncle on camera. (From an interesting op-doc on "surplus men" in China) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

Evergreen content 😏 www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/n...

Gregory’s is a local fav. Dunno what their challenges are, but it’s a homey Greek kitchen with the same needlepoints on the wall that my mom has. Pay a visit 26-02 23rd Ave

You've probably seen them in the subway: spiky partitions, halfmoon hurdles on the turnstiles and a patrol of guards by the emergency doors (with a 15-sec delay). Take a closer look at how the MTA hopes to cut down its $1B fare evasion problem www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/n...

On an N train where the emergency brake was triggered. Packed train and conductor asking people who want to get off to exit through the first car, and only the first car. Good morning

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

She was first in her family to go to college. She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven. They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving. They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

Messing around with @mta.info's new capital program dashboard, and it's looking like the IBX line color could be 💗 HOT PINK 💗

Three Vegas-style casinos approved for New York City - two in Queens and one in the Bronx (where the Trump org will get a payout). One of the big winners: The MTA, which could get $1.5B in casino license fees www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

Hi, Chen, Stefanos - hope things are well at New York Times, The. AI took the week off

A rly interesting case study, as pols prepare to fight over a similar policy for NYC's much bigger bus network. By @carabuckley.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

NEW: The New York Times and KFF surveyed 1,800+ immigrants in the United States. Half of all immigrants say they feel less safe since President Trump took office, and yet the majority are resolved to stay. Check out the poll's findings: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Half of all immigrants surveyed, including both documented and undocumented respondents, said they were angry or afraid under Trump's enforcement policies. Only 15% felt proud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Who said it was dog poop?

We first uncovered new crimes committed by this deed theft circle in 2022. This week, the leader of that ring was sentenced to up to 7 years in prison. New from @rukminicallimachi.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/r...

Does the subway still need conductors? Much of the world say no, but union leaders say it's a safety issue. Gov. Hochul has to decide by year end whether to sign a bill that would mandate two-person train crews, even on lines that already moved to one operator www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

Not only is it cruel to make an unpaid air traffic controller moonlight as an uber driver, it's also incredibly dangerous. They have to clock in the next morning, after working a double shift, to make sure planes don't collide www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/t...

everyone calling suitsupply a modestly priced chain is making me self conscious :(

There are now cement trucks entering the White House construction site, which is not what you'd expect for a project that hasn't been reviewed by anyone yet. The White House has previously said no NCPC approvals are needed yet because they're just doing demo, not construction.

I grew up five minutes away from the Unisphere, in the city's best park, Flushing Meadows. It feels like Queens is ascendant in a way it hasn't been for as long as I've been here (...when the Mets won in '86)

Putting the IBX route next to the voting map also helps narrow down where the biggest rezoning fights are going to play out. Lots of resistance to greater density in the pro-Cuomo nabes in Queens

Zohran Mamdani's focus on public transportation - and on affordability in general - paid off in a big way. Lots of fascinating insights in this map (free link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Check out our extremely detailed precinct map of results. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Spectrum News NY1 is providing free access to its stream all day and night via its Website and YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/gJpgKnQ...

A house fire on Halloween killed a family of five in Paterson, NJ. I spoke with a friend of the family, who has started a gofundme here www.gofundme.com/f/rebuilding...

A new "Bangladeshi Express" between Brooklyn and Queens. Tens of thousands of potential housing units. And the closest thing New Yorkers could get to an Airtrain. Here's how the IBX train could reshape life in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/n...

"The New York Housing Conference finds that 10 Council districts produced just seven units of affordable housing in total during the first six months of this year. Four produced none." www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/29/a...

Can buses be both "fast and free"? My dude @larrybuch.bsky.social rode the B41 up and down Flatbush Ave with a stopwatch to figure it out www.nytimes.com/video/upshot...

girl what!!!!

The MTA says a long awaited railroad project to connect Bronx residents to Penn Station will take at least 3 years longer than expected, and they’re blaming Amtrak for the delays www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/n...

Can fast buses in New York actually be free? @stefanoschen.bsky.social + Larry Buchanan and I take a close look at an idea that has helped propel Zohran Mamdani's campaign for mayor. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

the lowest stakes election nugget ever, for your enjoyment: curtis sliwa has six cats, but gave eight different names for them in three different interviews recently a fun kicker in our election newsletter this week, contributed by eagle-eyed @smaldo.bsky.social: www.thecity.nyc/newsletter/o...

Cuomo critics and transit advocates both seizing on this proposal to give the mayor control of the transit system's capital plans (the pool that pays for big flashy projects and repairs, but not the day-to-day operations) - via @migold.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/n...

“Beginning next summer, New York City will have a power deficiency equivalent to the energy needed to power 410,000 to 650,000 homes, and that number could double by 2050.” -Via Gothamist

Creaking walls. Broken elevators. Missing chunks of concrete. One of the most expensive condo towers in the world has new problems, and many could be connected to its cracking white facade. An investigation w/ @dionnesearcey.bsky.social + Urvashi Uberoy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/n...

Gonna put u on to the best crispy pork in the city. Like chicharrón, but lighter. Stall 23 in the New York Food Court in Flushing