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Livable Streets Foe Unmasked as Mini-Madoff

By Ben Fried | Mar 27, 2009 | 7 Comments

MacPherson claims he’s innocent. Earlier this week Suffolk County prosecutors charged Donald MacPherson, proprietor of a Manhattan S&M dungeon, with orchestrating a $50 million mortgage fraud out in Southampton. If, like me, you have only a fleeting familiarity with the subterranean torture fetish community, you’re probably wondering, "Who is Don MacPherson?" Well, in addition to […]

Putting Facebook to Work for Transit Rescue

By Brad Aaron | Mar 26, 2009 | 7 Comments

Got a Facebook account? The Campaign for New York’s Future is asking transit riders to use the image on the right (get it here) as their profile pic, while changing their status to: “Telling my state senator I oppose the MTA doomsday fare hikes and service cuts at www.KeepNewYorkMoving.org" In other it-ain’t-over-’til-it’s-over doomsday news, as […]

With No Plan for Transit, the Next Fare Hike Is Just Around the Bend

By Ben Fried | Mar 25, 2009 | 16 Comments

If state legislators don’t act to undo the outcome of today’s MTA Board meeting, it would mark the second straight year that fares have gone up, which is already a departure from the norm. And it’s going to get worse, say Gene Russianoff and the Straphangers Campaign: Without new financial help from Albany soon, the […]

Petition: Tell DOT to Reverse the Curse on Brooklyn Speedways

By Ben Fried | Mar 25, 2009 | 12 Comments

How fast do cars travel on Prospect Park West? Criminally fast. All the time. Members of Park Slope Neighbors clocked cars routinely exceeding the 30 mph speed limit — including one sociopath racing at 65 mph — during a ten-minute stretch earlier this month. Prospect Park West and Eighth Avenue form a one-way pair funneling […]

Where Does the Working Families Party Stand on MTA Rescue?

By Ben Fried | Mar 23, 2009 | 5 Comments

Millions of New York City bus riders are counting on an MTA rescue plan to maintain service and hold fares down. Last week, some of the biggest unions in New York came out in favor of the Ravitch Commission’s MTA rescue plan, including the bridge tolls that a handful of state senators refuse to support. […]

Dear State Senators, Don’t Let MTA Rescue Come to This

By Ben Fried | Mar 23, 2009 | No Comments

This vid from Transportation Alternatives is a little loopy, perhaps a commentary on the State Senate’s deranged MTA rescue plan — the one riddled with faulty accounting that the Fare Hike Four were so pleased to unveil last week. TA will be putting New Yorkers through to their state senators this Wednesday — the MTA’s […]

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