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No offense to the Gothamist staff, but may I ask why JDS is still writing here, as his talents quite obviously eclipse the '-ist.com' standard . . ....

Best wishes to everybody on board and all family and friends - what a tragedy....

Well - a tip of the cap to MCNY, but New York has a very long way to go. Large parts of all five boroughs are still decrepit and traffic-choked. Physically, i.e. judging by its infrastructure and bui...

This bike lane hysteria is totally nuts: There should be no question that Brooklyn and, more generally, New York, benefits from the constructing of bike lanes. The consequences for communities and, mo...

#3 - It's arguable that the biggest expense for most car commuters in, through, and to/from Manhattan is time, not dollars. If somebody's average hourly productivity is "worth" $50 but they spend an h...

I don't understand why conservatives are opposed to bridge tolling. We're asking users to pay for it, so the city can afford maintenance. How can one simultaneously froth at the mouth over government ...

My point is that you should take your own advice and charge a market price, based on costs and externalities. Then "resources" (bridge access) will be allocated efficiently. "Free" access is clearly ...

The market always allocates resources at a fair rate through prices. Cool. Let's charge a price commensurate with its cost, then. Infrastructure doesn't maintain itself. Air doesn't keep itself clean...

It's important to assess this comprehensively. Assertions that tolling East River bridges is a bad economic decision are unconvincing. For starters, neighborhood beautification would attract professio...

Most people are too shallow to consider the (very) high social costs of automobiles, including but not limited to: exhaust, noise pollution, risk of maiming, congestion, blight. I live on Grand St., i...