Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Elliot Spitzer

The Power of Moses: Please Wield Responsibly

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 14, 2007 | 2 Comments

An op-ed piece by Eleanor Randolph in today’s New York Times finds yet another lesson in the current re-examination of Robert Moses’s legacy. Randolph looks at the enormously powerful entities, usually known as authorities, that Moses left behind: "public-private hybrid[s] that can collect fees, take on debt and build things with little government interference." Randolph […]

Are Port Authority’s Airport Expansionists Flying Blind?

By Sarah Goodyear | Jan 25, 2007 | 37 Comments

The top brass over at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are patting themselves on the back about the PA’s plan to take over Stewart Airport near Newburgh, NY. "The region clearly needs additional capacity for air travel," Anthony Coscia, the agency’s chairman, was quoted as saying in the New York Times. […]

Sander Picked for MTA Director

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 15, 2006 | 8 Comments

As expected, word came out of Governor-Elect Eliot Spitzer’s headquarters this morning that he will recommend the appointment of Elliot "Lee" Sander as executive director and CEO of the MTA. Sander is currently corporate senior vice president at DMJM Harris, a leading transportation engineering firm and director of the Rudin Center for Transporation Policy at […]

Gov. Spitzer Transition Team Transpo Committee Named

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 20, 2006 | No Comments

It includes some leading members of the congestion charging brainstrust and some big MTA reformers. Via Chuck Bennett at AMNY: Co-chairs Elliot Sander, director of NYU Rudin Center for Transportation, VP at MTA contractor DMJM Harris and former city Dept. of Transporation commisioner. (Rumored to an MTA chairman candidate) Mary Ann Crotty, former transportation advisor for […]

Straphangers’ Russianoff Will be Named to Spitzer Team

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 15, 2006 | 13 Comments

Streetsblog has learned that Gene Russianoff, executive director of the Straphangers Campaign, will be named as a member of Governor-Elect Eliot Spitzer’s transition team transportation committee. The announcement is likely to be made tomorrow. Russianoff says, "No comment." Unlike yesterday’s inaccurate tip about the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability this item seems to be solid. Russianoff generated […]

Rumor Mill: Sustainability Announcement Tomorrow

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 14, 2006 | 30 Comments

Word has it that the Bloomberg Administration’s new Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability will unveil its first work product this coming Wednesday, November 15. It looks like this initial public announcement will be oriented more around the problems that the new office is thinking about and working on rather than the solutions. The solutions, I am told, may start to emerge as […]

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