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Exhibit in Vanderbilt Hall, images mounted on ground and on four story truss structure

The Quietly Influential Regional Plan Association Celebrates a Century of Shaping New York City

Commuters passing through Grand Central this month can learn about the wide-ranging influence of the Regional Plan Association, one of New York's most powerful organizations that many residents have never heard of.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Rendering from Friends of Brooklyn Queens Connector.

A Streetcar Named Independence: De Blasio Invests in Non-MTA Transit

Mayor Bill de Blasio is rolling out another transportation initiative that won't have to go through the state-controlled MTA.
By Jillian Jorgensen
Subway ridership is at its highest levels since the 1940s. (Photos by Arman Dzidzovic/New York Observer.)

The Social Commute: How the Big Schlep Is Changing the Way New Yorkers Live

As New York has transformed into an exceedingly safe and exceedingly expensive place to live over the past two decades, it’s not only the crime and the pervasive decay that have fallen away, but the close proximity, creating a social commute that echoes and exacerbates the work commute.
By Kim Velsey
The interior of an articulated train in the Toronto subway. (flickr, Ryan Flores)

There, In the Distance: Articulated Trains

By Chris Pomorski
The Upper East Side is only among the densest neighborhoods in the country—why does it need a subway? (Photo by Patrick J. Cashin of the MTA.)

Dan Doctoroff and John Zuccotti Don’t Think the East Side Needs Another Subway

By Stephen Jacob Smith
(Jason Seiler)

Obama to Cities: Drop Dead—the Life and Death of a Great American Urban Policy

By Observer Staff

Sander, Former M.T.A. Chief, to Chair Regional Plan Association

By Observer Staff

Civic Groups Don’t Want Speculative Trade Towers

By Eliot Brown

RPA Wish List: Second Avenue Subway to L.E.S., Free Buses Across Manhattan

By Eliot Brown

Transportation Advocates Agree: The M.T.A. Is in 'Deep Doo-Doo'

By Katharine Jose

Coney Reacts: RPA Likes Revised Plan; ACORN Wants More Affordability

By Eliot Brown

Average New Yorker’s Carbon Footprint Roughly Size 6

By Tom Acitelli

RPA Report: Keep Fresh Jersey-Penn Tunnel Going to East Side

By Lysandra Ohrstrom

RPA: Atlantic Yards Warm-up

By Observer Staff

Spitzer’s Transportation Agenda

By Observer Staff

Spitzer: Patronage and the Transit Strike

By Observer Staff
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