NJ Senate President Nick Scutari claims Dems are "not in a position" to pass a constitutional amendment that would allow them to redraw the state's congressional map. But Dems have supermajorities in both chambers & *gained* seats this month. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This is notable

Of course. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Riding the 7 train which is purple so this is New York?

Waiting for the 1 train but this looks different than usual.

hard to think of something that makes me as psychotically angry as red light scofflaws

I live near a busy intersection and this drives me insane. Not only is it wildly unsafe it almost always means you’re now blocking the intersection, which means I get treated to a solid 20 seconds of honking. Then one of the honkers runs the red light themselves and blocks the intersection.

Join an upcoming Open House to learn more about what’s next for the Interborough Express (IBX): mta.info/ibx November 19, 6-8 pm Trinity Lutheran Church 63-70 Dry Harbor Rd., Middle Village, NY 11379 November 20, 6-8 pm Brooklyn Public Library (Sunset Park) 5108 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220

"Cuomo announced half a decade ago but were never actually ordered" is great. A++ governor. Truly wonderful that 41% of this city thought he should be mayor.

Please sit down before looking at this screenshot. Better things might be possible! @2avesag.as @thelirrtoday.com @airlineflyer.net @mdasilva.bsky.social

The bill on Hochul's desk bans OPTO. It's tangential to the conversation as to whether the subway still needs conductors, but either way, banning OPTO preemptively is counter-productive.

We dropped a new report re: train operations, everyone’s favorite topic. There’s some backstory that we will get too. But, the basic takeaway is modern train systems have moved away from two-person train ops. New York should, too! transitcosts.com/Train_Operat...

Yes. Veto this bill.

Without a hearing or committee vote! Just landed on the floor

Backstory to this is that the Legislature approved a bill in June that was written in the 1990s (!!) requiring additional staffing of subway trains

Wait you mean the job doesn’t just go to some guy who did a political favor for you? Be still, my beating heart.

Good news, but as an MIH high-rise rezoning, feasibility requires very high rents. If we get enough construction that new LIC rents fall below that (not sure the exact number but in my bones I’m feeling…$4,000/mo. 1BR?), construction will stop. This is the problem with inclusionary requirements.

Let me tell you: these people are having breathless freakouts about people who live two, three blocks away. They think bus fare is what keeps them safe because they are completely bonkers about how they are racist. Their mindscape of the city does not reflect actual reality.

What I need everyone to understand about how goofy-stupid these people are being is that the UES is the rich side of one of the steepest geographic income gradients on the planet. I grew up on 94th and Park in the 80's, when 96th street Meant Something. I was just around there this week.

Brian, first time, long time. The mayor should task someone with clearing leaves and garbage from storm drains at the corners of every street in the city. I'll hang up and listen.

Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free? Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all. Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter: glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...

Randy Mastro is going to ratfuck the city as much as possible on his way out the door. The lame duck period is too long.

Ok, frustrated sarcasm out of my system: there’s a deeper depressing point here. NYC crime is hitting historic lows. By the NYPD’s metrics, it’s likely never been safer. But our coverage of crime is so appalling that the richest safest ppl in the city are losing it over free buses.

She will likely reconsider the second she finds out Hoboken also has a large issue with unhoused folks and not enough shelter or resources for them and all the friction that causes there, because those are the people she is afraid of (instead of supporting things to help them...like free buses).

I am once again asking Upper East Siders to get a fucking grip.

What a tedious asshole this guy has always been. Good riddance. I can’t wait to ignore Eric Adams forever in 49 days.

REVEALED: Conspiracy by the MTA to inflate the average mph of NYC city buses

There are no fumes from an electric train. These people are just idiots.

You can’t just point to Brooklyn and call it all Park Slope.

scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind (also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)

We gotta listen to this guy piss and moan about subway crime and he's out here saying "I can't guarantee safety"

Insurance is a dark horse slowly suffocating spontaneity and fun wherever it resides

Say it louder for the people in the back! Or don’t – with less honking and quieter streets, you don’t really have to. www.nbcnewyork.com/video/on-air...

As everyone knows, it’s definitely a good idea to launch a totally real new product during the busiest season of the year. Totally believable that this definitely real and new system will launch right before Thanksgiving. bsky.app/profile/fint...

Low-income seniors to get long-promised housing on city-owned land if Mamdani makes good on campaign promise.

The amNY reporter is very active in Middle Village NIMBY Facebook groups, and she’s very clearly trolling for one sided comments about IBX. All this type of coverage does it make these people look provincial and close-minded. Their version of NYC lost at the ballot box last Tuesday.

Kathy Hochul says no free buses (which I agree with…but…what about the faster part? I would prefer to redirect to that!) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/n...

Some good transit themed pieces at Canstruction this year.

Absolutely book Amtrak if you can. bsky.app/profile/airl...

We all rightly hate his guts but any analysis about the mayoral race that doesn’t spend many paragraphs exploring how literally Andrew Cuomo, a former governor with 100% name recognition and a stubborn level of popularity among certain voters, affected the race is bad commentary.

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What I'd say here is, ask yourself if you think anyone bidding on a project that Donald Trump has the final say on is going to go for something understated, cost-controlled and humble nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/07/t...

The Penn Station redevelopment plan has a financing scheme that could easily result in you paying more for every train you take out of Penn nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/07/t...

My take: implementation of Zohran’s policies is a tall order, *but* Tuesday’s election results themselves will help from practical and political standpoints. Not only did the housing ballot measures pass, I think it shows Hochul she has to worry more about leaving behind Zohran voters than Stefanik

The final ridership numbers for last week are in, and Wednesday's total ridership clocks in at 4,601,948. That's new post-COVID number to beat, and the first day above 4.6 million since the first week of March 2020.

Would also put failure to prioritize Northeast Corridor investments; implement any sort of national design guidelines/benchmarks for transit and commuter rail on this list; and dumping the electrification report on the way out the door instead of making it an actual priority.

In perhaps the best example yet of real estate brokers saying things about Mamdani’s election that are totally detached from market reality and just trying to drum up brokerage business for themselves, this guy is claiming it’s both a great buying opportunity AND a great selling opportunity.

Scenes from this morning’s NYC Municipal Archives book sale inside the gorgeous Surrogate’s Court atrium. Building is a gem, go just for the architecture. (Yes there’s a line to get in!)