My favorite thing of 2026 so far: All the people in NYC and Jersey City who showed up to the rivers looking for fireworks at midnight on NYE because of slop AI TikTok/Instagram accounts.

They nailed the traffic, tbh.

Around 40 people were killed and 115 others were injured after a fire broke out early Thursday morning at a bar at a ski resort in Crans-Montana, an Alpine town in Switzerland, the police said. Officials said the fire started during a New Year’s celebration. Here’s what we know about the disaster.

Once again reiterating: the end of the 30-day MetroCard will reduce ridership. It’s the stupidest decision the @mta.info has ever made.

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani sworn in as mayor of New York City.

The seasons of 2025: January 6, 2025 March 28, 2025 July 16, 2025 November 8, 2025 @capitalweather.bsky.social

just one of the great character actors of our time. As many others have, I will lament Isiah Whitlock Jr. with an emphatic sheeeeeeiiiit deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

BOSTON (AP) — Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of late President John F. Kennedy, has died, family says.

Highway robbery: For non-members, less than seven minutes on an e-bike is more expensive than the subway. And even for Citi Bike members, a ten-minute e-bike ride is as expensive as the subway. It's time for New York City to subsidize bike share and cap runaway Citi Bike prices

Bust the blue laws in 2026. www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

Imagine if the $10B for a new Port Authority Bus Terminal instead went towards an investment in regional rail in the NYC Metro area.

Iconic, tbh.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Ski day Sunday ❄️🎿

Transit's main competition is cars. If you raise fares from $2.50 to $3, you're still way more affordable than driving. But if you cut the bus from every 15 to every 20, you're screwed because cars have infinity frequency and 24 hr service span.

Shoutout to timing it perfectly from the PATH to the light rail on a snowy night out.

It’s like the Port Authority doesn’t check NJ Transit schedules and sees how awful off-peak and weekend service is. Maybe they should support bumping NJT service to at least every 20 minutes.

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Traveling north late Friday? Might want to change plan. In addition to ice potential near here, zone of moderate to heavy snow northern Mid-Atlantic to parts of NY/New England. ❄️❄️❄️ Winter storm watch NYC -- half a foot or more forecast there. Details @ cwg.live.

None of the multiple car and rail tunnels were dug with the four modern machine that will dig the gateway Tunnel. A look at the future and the dangerous past of tunnel building. www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

Someone let Phil Murphy know.

Extend the congestion relief zone to traffic choked Downtown Brooklyn and be a legend, @mta.info!

My hometown doesn't have a real town center, and so far only one of these buildings has been completed (on far left). There's been no real updates on the rest of the site or any other site work underway since. jerseydigs.com/river-park-t...

Montpellier FR began service on Tram 5 this past weekend. The 17.5 km line includes 11 km of new infrastructure as well as the creation of two major squares; the project cost €440 million, so roughly €65 m/mile. It's expected to serve 80,000 daily riders.

It’s also notable too on other NJT electric lines you have nearly as much pantograph issues as you do on Amtrak.

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

This is BIG news for JC and proof that advocacy works! I’m thrilled to hear that the Turnpike Authority finally listened to everyone who spoke out against the Turnpike widening. Now we have to keep the pressure on and get more funding for the PATH and NJT t.e2ma.net/message/rix1...

Controversial highway project canceled by Murphy www.nj.com/news/2025/12...

Even with PTC, NJ Transit still appears to of had two trains collide in Montclair: newjersey.news12.com/nj-transit-t...

An extremely satisfying set of videos is coming in a few years.

SURPRISE! PANYNJ completely unprepared for the end of MetroCard sales & transition to OMNY. MetroCard vending machines will go dark Dec 29 with no OMNY vending machines installed to replace them. Cash users need to jump through hoops. Oh, and 10-trip/30-day unlimited cards? There's no replacement.

How much money has been spent on new LIRR infrastructure and yet….

New-design faregates at Broadway-Lafayette this morning

Police are investigating a link between the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT professor, AP sources say.

Hmmmm 🤔 poomang.com/en/t/mycolor..

Perfect time to add another light rail stop on 15th street in Hoboken…. jerseydigs.com/north-end-ho...

Truly insane that the networks took this speech live after refusing to do the same for Biden in 2022

What oil, what land, what assets did Venezuela steal from the US? And when? A social media post from an alternative reality.

Frontier is Spirit’s only really viable merger partner. Maybe the 3rd times the charm…

When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day. When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.

One simple way to compare potential transit projects would be dollars invested per net new rider. IBX looks like it'd be an extraordinarily efficient investment. In NJ, the Northern Branch extension of HBLR to Bergen County is too and in the same ballpark. (Caveat: Table is deep research generated)

Cold + snow + getting dark at 4:20 pm = Not at my finest.

For scale, Musk is now worth about $2,000 per American, or about 20 years’ worth of the expiring ACA tax credits that have been the major fight in Congress for months.

Frozen Blue ❄️🏈

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

BREAKING: 9 killed in shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach and police fatally shot one of 2 gunmen, Australian Broadcasting Corp says.

"Bauer, a sub-2:50 marathoner, said he completed the run in 46 minutes (elapsed) through ice and snow. The train, meanwhile, took an hour and four minutes. That’s 4:30 marathon pace."