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By Eliot Brown 5/21/09 7:42pm

LIRR President Said to Be Interim M.T.A. Executive Director

LIRR president expected to take over for exiting Lee Read More

By Tom McGeveran 5/06/09 12:16pm

Wood War: Who Wins Today’s Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?

New York Post: It’s happened before: Vanity Fair breaks some news, and the New York Post floods the non-Vanity Fair demographic with all the goods. This morning it’s accused Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff’s secretary sounding off on what the guy was like before he got all lethargic and doughy. That apparently happened when the F.B.I. and Read More

By Eliot Brown 3/31/09 11:45pm

Blood on the Tracks

This You Know: As the Subways Go, So Goes the New York Economy. So What Are the Governor, Sheldon Silver and the M.T.A. Doing About It? ‘Until You Have an Agreement,’ Says Gov. Paterson, ‘You Don’t Know.’

Where Transportation Plans Go to Die

By Jimmy Vielkind

ALBANY—Unable thus far Read More

By Eliot Brown 2/05/09 4:58am

Bridge to Everywhere: Despite the Recession, It’s Boom Time for N.Y. Officials

These may be austere, depressing times for New York's private sector. But for our public officials, it's a full-blown boom.

Hence the spectacle—in a week in which the mayor and the governor presented end-of-days budgets—of David Paterson fretting about the perils of coming into massive amounts of cash.

"Certainly in terms of the stimulus Read More

By Matthew Schuerman 5/07/07 11:13pm

Kalikow Danced to Spitzer's Tune in M.T.A. Exit

Peter Kalikow’s Monday morning announcement that he would step down after six years as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority surprised no one, not least of whom Mr. Kalikow himself.

“Make no mistake about it, this was a tough job,” Mr. Kalikow said at the resignation announcement, held in 101 Park Avenue, a Read More

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LIRR President Said to Be Interim M.T.A. Executive Director

Wood War: Who Wins Today’s Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?

Blood on the Tracks

Where Transportation Plans Go to Die

Bridge to Everywhere: Despite the Recession, It’s Boom Time for N.Y. Officials

Kalikow Danced to Spitzer's Tune in M.T.A. Exit

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